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1440619 No.1440619 [Reply] [Original]

Have you been hearing about this insane skydiver who is going to attempt to jump from 120,000 feet up in the hopes that he will break the speed of sound and create a sonic boom with his body?

1. Is this even possible?
2. What would a sonic boom do to an unprotected human body?

>> No.1440622

>>1440619
1. Is this even possible?
No. Terminal Velocity.
2. What would a sonic boom do to an unprotected human body?
Fuck if I know.

>> No.1440625

>>1440622

The higher you go the larger terminal velocity is duh.

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1440627

why not just go on a airplane that has more than sonic speed

>> No.1440630

>>1440622
>Terminal Velocity

Bitches don't know 'bout my aerodynamic physique

>> No.1440631

Is he carrying oxygen tanks?

>> No.1440633

>>1440627

Get out.

>> No.1440636

Project Excelsior did it in the 50s using a balloon. A person could go faster than 700mph in the upper atmosphere.

>> No.1440645

I have no idea how he hopes to achieve the speed of sound (If his thought pattern is "If I fall for a long time I'll get infinately faster" then I suppose he deserves to die anyway.
Anyway, I'm no physics nut, but I'm fairly sure breaking the sound barrier would deafen the absolute fuck out of him and burst his ear drums. If that happens, he's going to get blood and shards of bone in his brain, and die almost instantly.

>> No.1440674

i wonder what a man going that fast sounds like anyway

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1440682

>>1440633
>sage
>heterosexual

>> No.1440684

>Fournier's flight plan called for a 15-minute descent, zooming through thin air at 932 mph an hour (1,500 kilometers per hour) — 1.7 times the speed of sound. If everything had gone according to plan, the skydiver would have smashed through the sound barrier before deploying his chute about 6,000 meters (3.75 miles) above the prairie wheat fields.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24821986/

>> No.1440822

>>1440684

What could possibly go wrong?

>> No.1440832

Stupid air resistance.

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>>1440684
>1.7

>> No.1440849

sounds like homosex to me

>> No.1440850

He would probably not breach speed of sound at ground level - think sound might be faster up there