Ferrari Mailing List: Re: [NFC] Balloon ride to space...

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Mother Nature is a bitch.

Gravity sucks.

These are merciless realities.

Venturing to those altitudes should not be taken lightly or as some romantic journey of man.  It's serious.

I'd choose my Tomcat.  I was trained for it, my destiny was in my hands.†

I've been north of Angels 50

A) the earth is not flat

B) even at that altitude, exposed skin burns really quickly*  (more of that Mother Nature stuff)

*Clyde, did you have issues with "B" above?

† Anthony, I was put in that "gun to the head" scenario during psyche evals...  I spared the dog.  Ænima

But I do love your "Bezos' flying penis"...  that's perfect.

My call sign was "Cosmo"

On Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 09:48:44 AM PDT, Anthony Bauco <tbauco [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Good lord man, you are a ray of sunshine today!!!

This reminded of a Star Trek scene. 

https://youtu.be/RlphfLO3MYA

I will call you Bones from now on.

Is there someone on this list named Maverick?

Given we know your answer is "none of the above", which would you choose if someone held  gun to your head?  1. Falcon 9 plus Dragon, 2. Bezos' flying penis, 3. Branson's Six Million Dollar Man ripoff or 4. the county fair balloon ride on steroids?

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021, 11:09 AM Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net> wrote:

You forgot Alan Eustace...  who holds the record.

It's not a matter of how fast you get there, we're all speed junkies or we wouldn't be on this list.  It's the abject harshness of space once you get there and lack of backup contingencies.   It's a 15 minute fall back to earth, most of it above Mach 1...  all in an environmental suit that if it fails...  well, if hypoxia doesn't kill you, the low temperature will.  And the real irony is that even at those freezing temps (-90° F), at that low of a pressure condition, your blood, your eyeballs, your urine, even your bile will boil from the residual heat in your body.   There is no coming back from that.  Whatever hits the ground is just goo... before it hits.

Yep, safe peaceful parachute ride back to earth... at over 700MPH without an aircraft structure around you.

(for those scoffing at that number because terminal velocity is ~124mph, that only "starts" to apply below 30Kfeet)

We won't even discuss control-ability in an environment where all you have is your limbs and no real air for them to work against.

(One of the gents mentioned here got into a flat spin of amazing RPMs, he's not even sure how he got out of it.)

There are risks... and calculated risks.  Choose wisely.

On Monday, October 4, 2021, 09:21:17 PM PDT, Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

So, as much as there was some hesitation from ‘List members to take a roller-coaster-rocket-ride to space, how about a graceful float to space?:

 

www.space.com - world view space tourism stratosphere balloon

 

For concours-winning Ferrari Mondial money, one can take a peaceful, hours-long ride to the edge of space.

 

Thing with this is, if things do go awry, you could just pull a Joe Kittinger/Felix Baumgartner and parachute safely back to earth. Win-win...

 

www.youtube.com - Felix Jumps From The Stratosphere | Earth Lab

 

Peter

 

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