Fwd: [FPSPACE] Spacediving...here it comes!

[Christopher Gorski]

File under "things I wouldn't do with a balloon"--our hardware's survived a pretty similar drop (NSL-3, the one with the 2kg cell) but that's still a small risk if it failed!

For your entertainment,

--me

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From: Morris Jones
Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] Spacediving...here it comes!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16908004

Felix Baumgartner will jump from a balloon 36.5km (120,000ft) up, where a leak in his pressurised suit could lead to a rapid loss of consciousness.

He will fall so fast that he becomes the first person to go faster than the speed of sound unaided by a machine.