On the 14th of October, 43-year-old Austrian Felix Baumgarter thrashed the world record for the highest jump ever, jumping from space! From a height of 128,097 feet (39,044 metres), he went at a speed of 1342 kilometres per hour and came back down to earth within 4 minutes and 19 seconds. At the last minute, he was nearly forced to abort because of a helmet problem. He was supposed to jump at 120,000 feet, but the helium balloon that took him up went 8,097 metres higher, so he was jumping from more than 24 miles up. The balloon that lifted him into space held 859,000 cubic metres of helium, imagine what would happen if you sucked on that, you would probably sound like a chipmunk for life!
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/space/news/article.cfm?c_id=325&objectid=10840566
I liked your ending sentence.
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Yes Josh, I like your sense of humour too! Well written.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why people choose to do things like that? Would you do it?
yes very thought provoking, did he stay alive and did he so happened to go through a worm-hole.
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I liked how you put some facts then you put some humour in .A very good research about the record braking jump .
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ReplyDeletecool international news article josh. liked the way you put humor and facts in it. Liked your end scentence. But did you put the links in?, and one question would you do it?
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