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Some Jabronie | Fri, 01/04/2008 - 22:42
Well my question would be:
What law of relativity are we talking about here?
Einstein so talked about formula was E=m*c2
E=Energy
m=mass
c=power source required (fuel)
Here the only "fuel" involved is earth gravity witch is constant, the mass of the person is also a constant, and after he hits the atmosphere speed becomes a constant (or pretty close) as well, so can someone explain to me how this is suppose to prove Eisten theory was correct (not that i'm saying it was wrong) it's just i don't see who this experiment fits in.
if you have the answer please mail me at: it-support@libero.it cause i'm very curious.
holy jesus christ. you're not THAT curious or you woulda known that the 'c' is the speed of light in a vacuum, and not 'fuel'.
where in the hell did you get that from? someone else that had no idea wtf they were talking about?
god, why does everyone think they're a physicist these days?
Some Jabronie | Thu, 12/13/2007 - 08:07
People should jump out of balloons at 150,000 feet with cameras more often.
The people below this comment sure are unhappy.
Some Jabronie | Mon, 12/10/2007 - 01:57
A plane? Did you even watch the clip?
Some Jabronie | Tue, 12/04/2007 - 20:52
Ow by the way as long as the air inside the balloon is lighter ( plus the added weight of the balloon material) it will rise and it dose actually say in the video that he is still in a breathable atmosphere ( so the balloon would rise). ( stop making stupid accusations listen to the thing first :P.)
Some Jabronie | Tue, 12/04/2007 - 20:48
This is actually real before you scrutinise anything do your research first, and he is technically in space, and the reason he dose not burn up is because he is travelling slowly and still relatively close to earth, a space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere at 70,000 mph that's why they get hot. nice video :).
Some Jabronie | Mon, 12/03/2007 - 17:35
why did it stop there
Some Jabronie | Fri, 11/23/2007 - 14:54
A false claim.... This is why. In order for a balloon to float up to a certain altitude it has to displace a volume of air that has a mass greater than its mass sum (balloon, basket and pilot). To say that he was in space is then incorrect. Balloons don't float up into empty space. otherwise we would simply use a balloon to got to moon!!
When he stepped out of the basket he would feel the thin air rush pass him. If he was holding a small flag it would flap vigorously away from the direction of the earth as he fell towards it. There was thin air around him at that point or the balloon would not float (float in thin air) up to that point.
Some Jabronie | Fri, 11/23/2007 - 08:56
BALLS OF STEEL!
...
.......
BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS....BALLS OF STEEL!!
Some Jabronie | Tue, 11/20/2007 - 15:12
it was not a plane, it was a balloon
Some Jabronie | Mon, 11/19/2007 - 00:05
to jabroni:
you're thinking henry kissinger, not joe kittinger, you fool.
Some Jabronie | Sat, 11/17/2007 - 23:49
Things burn up in the atmosphere because they are flying a LOT faster than 990 kph. Orbit speeds are thousands of kilometers per hour faster than Mach 1, that is why satellites burn up when falling out of orbit, and why spacecraft must have heat shields. Since Joe only jumped, and was not traveling at orbital speeds, he did not burn up.
As far as proving Einstein correct......It did prove his conjecture that a man falling in space would not be able to tell he was accelerating, which is a natural conclusion of General Relativity. Everything depends on the frame of reference, since Joe did not have a reference frame by which he could measure his movement he could not tell he was accelerating.
Some Jabronie | Sat, 11/17/2007 - 21:32
Kissinger? Didn't he go on to kill lots of people in Vietnam and carpet bomb Cambodia?
Some Jabronie | Sat, 11/17/2007 - 20:28
Can anyone tell what documentary is this clip from?
Some Jabronie | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 06:47
"if he had just a camera which he jumped with..how was he being filmed while he jumped..or while he opened his parachute???"
There was a camera in the balloon, and other videos i've seen have mixed it in with some other parachuting footage for effect
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 17:00
Seems the point of the video is lost here. Many of the previous posts to this one are talking about theoretical stuff and making racist comments.
The point was, does a person have any sense of acceleration from that high in space? For each person the feeling would certainly be subjective, coloured by fears or fancy about heights, open spaces, danger or just the idea of experiencing something for the first time.
By the way, I didn't get the man's name in the video as the audio was a little muffled. It is too bad the person who posted the video didn't put it in the notes. The video was interesting enough to see more.
- SayBlade
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 15:27
Not that "sky"diving from above the troposphere isn't cool, but I don't think 1000km/h is fast enough to say anything about relativity.
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 14:35
also there's no need to refer to Einstein here... they're just talking about Newton's laws of motion... the whole person throwing a tennis ball in a train analogy from like.... 3rd grade physics....
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 14:33
douche bag... GMm/r
albert Einstien came up with more than just e=mc squared....
special relativity is alot easier to understand and only weighs in at 30 or so pages.... and general is only about 70.. read em...
Sorry Russia, but we technically beat ya to it. You still get credit for first human orbit...
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 09:43
Oh and by the way that was no plane, it was an atmospheric balloon...
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 09:42
Well my question would be:
What law of relativity are we talking about here?
Einstein so talked about formula was E=m*c2
E=Energy
m=mass
c=power source required (fuel)
Here the only "fuel" involved is earth gravity witch is constant, the mass of the person is also a constant, and after he hits the atmosphere speed becomes a constant (or pretty close) as well, so can someone explain to me how this is suppose to prove Eisten theory was correct (not that i'm saying it was wrong) it's just i don't see who this experiment fits in.
if you have the answer please mail me at: it-support@libero.it cause i'm very curious.
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 07:30
this is BULL CRAP... how the HEK did the freakin atmosphere not BURN HIM ALIVE.. he was and how the HEK do u open a freakin parachute in SPACE.... RETAAAAAAARDDD
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 03:57
damn
Some Jabronie | Thu, 11/15/2007 - 02:21
"He parachutes out of a plane at the edge of space, proving Einstein's theories of relativity correct." is that humor or stupidity?
Some Jabronie | Wed, 11/14/2007 - 23:55
This is amazing. I scream while riding a roller coaster.
-Clare
Some Jabronie | Wed, 11/14/2007 - 23:53
if he had just a camera which he jumped with..how was he being filmed while he jumped..or while he opened his parachute???
Some Jabronie | Wed, 11/14/2007 - 23:41
no it is actually chinamen, dont listen to tht robot.
Some Jabronie | Wed, 11/14/2007 - 23:12
It's not the fall that kills you, it is the sudden stop at the bottom...
Some Jabronie | Wed, 11/14/2007 - 19:20
we are not talking about the guy's who built the fucking rail ways
Some Jabronie | Wed, 11/14/2007 - 18:42
neat.
btw dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Chinese person, please
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In the Earth's atmosphere, the most important factor affecting the speed of sound is the temperature (see Details below). Since temperature and thus the speed of sound normally decrease with increasing altitude, sound is refracted upward, away from listeners on the ground, creating an acoustic shadow at some distance from the source. grand canyon air tours
Well my question would be:
What law of relativity are we talking about here?
Einstein so talked about formula was E=m*c2
E=Energy
m=mass
c=power source required (fuel)
Here the only "fuel" involved is earth gravity witch is constant, the mass of the person is also a constant, and after he hits the atmosphere speed becomes a constant (or pretty close) as well, so can someone explain to me how this is suppose to prove Eisten theory was correct (not that i'm saying it was wrong) it's just i don't see who this experiment fits in.
if you have the answer please mail me at: it-support@libero.it cause i'm very curious.
holy jesus christ. you're not THAT curious or you woulda known that the 'c' is the speed of light in a vacuum, and not 'fuel'.
where in the hell did you get that from? someone else that had no idea wtf they were talking about?
god, why does everyone think they're a physicist these days?
People should jump out of balloons at 150,000 feet with cameras more often.
The people below this comment sure are unhappy.
A plane? Did you even watch the clip?
Ow by the way as long as the air inside the balloon is lighter ( plus the added weight of the balloon material) it will rise and it dose actually say in the video that he is still in a breathable atmosphere ( so the balloon would rise). ( stop making stupid accusations listen to the thing first :P.)
This is actually real before you scrutinise anything do your research first, and he is technically in space, and the reason he dose not burn up is because he is travelling slowly and still relatively close to earth, a space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere at 70,000 mph that's why they get hot. nice video :).
why did it stop there
A false claim.... This is why. In order for a balloon to float up to a certain altitude it has to displace a volume of air that has a mass greater than its mass sum (balloon, basket and pilot). To say that he was in space is then incorrect. Balloons don't float up into empty space. otherwise we would simply use a balloon to got to moon!!
When he stepped out of the basket he would feel the thin air rush pass him. If he was holding a small flag it would flap vigorously away from the direction of the earth as he fell towards it. There was thin air around him at that point or the balloon would not float (float in thin air) up to that point.
BALLS OF STEEL!
...
.......
BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS....BALLS OF STEEL!!
it was not a plane, it was a balloon
to jabroni:
you're thinking henry kissinger, not joe kittinger, you fool.
Things burn up in the atmosphere because they are flying a LOT faster than 990 kph. Orbit speeds are thousands of kilometers per hour faster than Mach 1, that is why satellites burn up when falling out of orbit, and why spacecraft must have heat shields. Since Joe only jumped, and was not traveling at orbital speeds, he did not burn up.
As far as proving Einstein correct......It did prove his conjecture that a man falling in space would not be able to tell he was accelerating, which is a natural conclusion of General Relativity. Everything depends on the frame of reference, since Joe did not have a reference frame by which he could measure his movement he could not tell he was accelerating.
Kissinger? Didn't he go on to kill lots of people in Vietnam and carpet bomb Cambodia?
Can anyone tell what documentary is this clip from?
"if he had just a camera which he jumped with..how was he being filmed while he jumped..or while he opened his parachute???"
There was a camera in the balloon, and other videos i've seen have mixed it in with some other parachuting footage for effect
Seems the point of the video is lost here. Many of the previous posts to this one are talking about theoretical stuff and making racist comments.
The point was, does a person have any sense of acceleration from that high in space? For each person the feeling would certainly be subjective, coloured by fears or fancy about heights, open spaces, danger or just the idea of experiencing something for the first time.
By the way, I didn't get the man's name in the video as the audio was a little muffled. It is too bad the person who posted the video didn't put it in the notes. The video was interesting enough to see more.
- SayBlade
Not that "sky"diving from above the troposphere isn't cool, but I don't think 1000km/h is fast enough to say anything about relativity.
also there's no need to refer to Einstein here... they're just talking about Newton's laws of motion... the whole person throwing a tennis ball in a train analogy from like.... 3rd grade physics....
douche bag... GMm/r
albert Einstien came up with more than just e=mc squared....
special relativity is alot easier to understand and only weighs in at 30 or so pages.... and general is only about 70.. read em...
I like The Big Lebowski reference!
I did a quick search on this guy since I never heard it, even though Discover Science is almost always correct. In this case: they're correct. http://www.af.mil/history/person.asp?dec=&pid=123006518
Sorry Russia, but we technically beat ya to it. You still get credit for first human orbit...
Oh and by the way that was no plane, it was an atmospheric balloon...
Well my question would be:
What law of relativity are we talking about here?
Einstein so talked about formula was E=m*c2
E=Energy
m=mass
c=power source required (fuel)
Here the only "fuel" involved is earth gravity witch is constant, the mass of the person is also a constant, and after he hits the atmosphere speed becomes a constant (or pretty close) as well, so can someone explain to me how this is suppose to prove Eisten theory was correct (not that i'm saying it was wrong) it's just i don't see who this experiment fits in.
if you have the answer please mail me at: it-support@libero.it cause i'm very curious.
this is BULL CRAP... how the HEK did the freakin atmosphere not BURN HIM ALIVE.. he was and how the HEK do u open a freakin parachute in SPACE.... RETAAAAAAARDDD
damn
"He parachutes out of a plane at the edge of space, proving Einstein's theories of relativity correct." is that humor or stupidity?
This is amazing. I scream while riding a roller coaster.
-Clare
if he had just a camera which he jumped with..how was he being filmed while he jumped..or while he opened his parachute???
no it is actually chinamen, dont listen to tht robot.
It's not the fall that kills you, it is the sudden stop at the bottom...
we are not talking about the guy's who built the fucking rail ways
neat.
btw dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Chinese person, please