From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Sep 9 19:28:15 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE4016F03 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:28:14 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 09 Sep 2002 19:28:14 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g89IHDC26697 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:17:13 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644942942BF; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from sunserver.permafrost.net (u172n16.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.172.16]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD5B29409A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.123.179] (helo=permafrost.net) by sunserver.permafrost.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17oT2j-0006UA-00; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:13:49 -0300 Message-Id: <3D7CE662.9040000@permafrost.net> From: Owen Byrne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: johnhall@evergo.net Cc: fork@example.com Subject: Re: The Big Jump References: <002201c2582a$e84211f0$0200a8c0@JMHALL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:20:18 -0300 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.8 required=7.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: John Hall wrote: >Why so fast? Normal terminal velocity is much slower. > > Not at 40,000 m. I found this article (http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53928,00.html) : "The last person to try to break the highest free fall record died in the attempt. In 1965, New Jersey truck driver Nick Piantanida suffered catastrophic equipment failure when his facemask blew out at 57,000 feet. Lack of oxygen caused such severe brain damage that he went into a coma and died four months later." And in amongst the flash at http://www.legrandsaut.org/site_en/ you can discover that he will break the sound barrier at 35,000 m, presumably reaching top speed somewhere above 30,000. Owen > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of >>bitbitch@magnesium.net >>Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:36 AM >>To: (Robert Harley) >>Cc: fork@example.com >>Subject: Re: The Big Jump >> >> >> >>So uh, would this qualify for the Darwin awards if he doesn't make it? >> >>Freaking french people... >> :-) >>-BB >>RH> Today a French officer called Michel Fournier is supposed to get >> >> >in a > > >>RH> 350-metre tall helium balloon, ride it up to the edge of space (40 >> >> >km > > >>RH> altitude) and jump out. His fall should last 6.5 minutes and >> >> >reach > > >>RH> speeds of Mach 1.5. He hopes to open his parachute manually at >> >> >the > > >>RH> end, although with an automatic backup if he is 7 seconds from the >>RH> ground and still hasn't opened it. >> >>RH> R >> >>RH> ObQuote: >>RH> "Vederņ, si averņ si grossi li coglioni, come ha il re di >> >> >Franza." > > >>RH> ("Let's see if I've got as much balls as the King of France!") >>RH> - Pope Julius II, 2 January 1511 >> >> >> >>-- >>Best regards, >> bitbitch mailto:bitbitch@magnesium.net >> >> > > > >