So much talk about this being on an equivalent level with Armstrong's moon walk or the Mars landings... I don't look at it that way, more of an Evil Knieval type stunt than real technological accomplishment.. That's the way I look at it at least. How about the rest of you?
Pretty much the same. My understanding of the "science" is that this is an incremental push to technology/knowledge that already exists, rather than a whole new field being opened up. Still . . . it was pretty damn cool to watch.
The Moon landing as a way, way bigger deal, obviously.
Felix had 100 people help him over 5 years to reach his goal of jumping from 120K
The Moon landing has hundreds of thousands people working basically non-stop for 9 years to get Apollo 11 on the Moon. Too bad there was only that one camera filming Armstrong and Aldrin on the Lunar surface.
That being said, the jump was a very impressive accomplishment. He must have a huge set of brass ones dangling between his legs.
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Felt like it anyway.
wait. what? guy didn't even get the record?
102,000 was the record.
The time in freefall record was 4:28, this guy deployed his chute at 4:22.
Records he did break:
Highest manned balloon flight
Fastest free fall speed
Highest altitude jumped from
Except for the parts near the end where they kept giving the guy the wrong directions of wind.... Several times!
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Well that showed not much.:baffled:
Felix had 100 people help him over 5 years to reach his goal of jumping from 120K
The Moon landing has hundreds of thousands people working basically non-stop for 9 years to get Apollo 11 on the Moon. Too bad there was only that one camera filming Armstrong and Aldrin on the Lunar surface.
That being said, the jump was a very impressive accomplishment. He must have a huge set of brass ones dangling between his legs.