Re: [NFC] Balloon ride to space... | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Peter Rychel (dino308gt4![]() |
|
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 21:10:56 -0700 (PDT) |
Yes, I am aware of the hazards of a flight like that. This posting was a humorous one. Nothing lately on here anyways and I saw the story about this on our local news last night (we did discuss space flight recently). I’m disappointed actually. I thought my Ferrari Mondial mention would wake cLyDe up. Peter Sent from Mail for Windows From: Rick Moseley 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 Sent from
Mail for Windows _________________________________________________________________ |
- Re: [NFC] Balloon ride to space..., (continued)
- Re: [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Erik Nielsen, October 5 2021
- Re: [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Peter Rychel, October 5 2021
- Re: [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Rick Moseley, October 5 2021
- Re: [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Peter Rychel, October 5 2021
- Re: *****SPAM***** [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Peter Rychel, October 5 2021
- Re: *****SPAM***** [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Rick Moseley, October 5 2021
- Message not available
- Re: *****SPAM***** Re: *****SPAM***** [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Rick Moseley, October 6 2021
- Re: *****SPAM***** Re: *****SPAM***** [NFC] Balloon ride to space... Clarence Romero Jr., October 6 2021
Results generated by Tiger Technologies Web hosting using MHonArc.