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Watching this somehow makes the whole MOOSE concept [1] of a person falling from orbit seem a lot more reasonable. It wouldn't be pleasant obviously https://en
by bragr 3y ago
Watching this somehow makes the whole MOOSE concept [1] of a person falling from orbit seem a lot more reasonable. It wouldn't be pleasant obviously
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE
- lupusreal 3y agoEventually Red Bull is going to sponsor somebody to do this.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoNo, it's going to be some old, rich tech nerd! (eg Alan Eustace, who broke Felix's balloon record shortly after it was set but without anywhere near as mich fanfare)
- dekhn 3y agoThe ultimate billionare sport would be basically parachuting from space (MOOSE-style). It would be such a rush. I volunteer Elon for initial testing.
- kragen 3y agothis is great! i think you could make it as pleasant as a typical rush-hour trip on the city bus: louder and more dangerous, but with less people, and perhaps roughly as comfortable, at least if you have the kind of rush hour where you are frequently in danger of fainting from the heat
- enderfusion 3y agoMaaaaaaybe. But we did pull like 20g+ on descent, so that's a bit problematic
- kragen 3y agoyou'd have to decelerate several times slower (four gees to be safe, three gees to be gravitron-style 'comfortable'), but that's feasible in an aerodynamic (plasmadynamic?) fashion, even with a relatively low mass-per-unit-area projectile like a person facing forward
- myself248 3y agoYou kidding? I'd pay to try that. Suck it, Baumgartner!