No wonder some countries hate us... This stuff is just crap. It boggles the mind that some people can be so bored with life that they devote time to this stuff. What will happen, of course, is that the military will end up buying it and they will become multi-millionaires. The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine. On 8/3/07, Ken Harris <kharrismar@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Just saw this awesome article in the June 2007 issue of "Popular Mechanics" (if you can't find it at the store, try your local library). Seems some (maniac) entrepenuer and his partner are trying to develop a thermal-rated pressure suit that will allow people (crazies) to free-fall from 60 miles in space. They'll get to that height aboard a privately-run open-cockpit rocket that will then fall back and be recovered behind them somewhere. This "ultimate extreme-sport diver will reach a speed of 2500 mph before entering heavy air at around 100,000 ft altitude, and then make a normal parachute landing some 10 minutes after bailing out at +/- 300,000 ft. Sounds like fun! Any takers?