Sky Dive from 23 miles

[mrjarrell]

Getting ready to jump!

 

[Wreaver]

Over 6 million watching via youtube. Man, I hope they have their adsense on.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I'm amazed how well he's maintaining altitude

 

[mrjarrell]

He's still rising. Man.

 

[Mosinowner]

I think this is going to be............. interesting.

 

[Suprtek]

I'm at home laying comfortably in my own bed and I'm still tensing up. This guy must have a set of these...

 

[hoosierdoc]

How high would a helium ballon go? At some point there's not many molecules to displace to generate lift. I wonder if that's partially why balloon is so huge

 

[Hammer]

Door is open

 

[hoosierdoc]

This is as close as I can imagine to having watched the Apollo missions or the first shuttle launch

 

[mrjarrell]

Door's open!

 

[Suprtek]

The pucker factor just went off the chart I think.

 

[Donnelly]

Holy cow!

 

[Mosinowner]

Chut is open.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Wow. Anyone else relaxing their muscles now?

 

[Mosinowner]

Wow. Anyone else relaxing their muscles now?

I thought he would die.

 

[mrjarrell]

Excellent! Chute deployed and he's alive.

 

[Mosinowner]

We have landing

 

[hornadylnl]

Just landed.

 

[hoosierdoc]

And he landed on both feet. Awesomeness.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I thought he would die.

When they cut back to the mission control during freefall I thought something bad had happened