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But with such a huge spin on it, people will not only miss an opportunity to be educated on what he actually did, they are actively being misled about it. I jus
by anonymouz 14y ago
But with such a huge spin on it, people will not only miss an opportunity to be educated on what he actually did, they are actively being misled about it. I just can't stand such rubbish tactics.
The jump height is just one particular point that I noticed, and it was a point where they seemed to deliberately put a lot of spin on it in a couple of places:
1) They consistently called it "edge of space". It's a lot closer to an airliners flight height than the edge of space (100km).
2) Their consistent use of fish-eye lenses for the outside imagery made it seem like you can actually see the earth's curvature, conjuring up images of space-flight.
3) Whenever he talked with Kittinger on the ground, they background animation showed a rotating earth from LEO.
Together this all seems to mislead an unsuspecting viewer into believing that he jumped from somewhere a lot higher. What's wrong with being honest about it being 39km and nowhere near space?
- Evbn 14y ago39 is more than halfway from 13 to 100, on a reasonable logarithmic scale.
- anonymouz 14y agoOn a logarithmic scale I can easily get halfway to the top of Mount Everest by walking onto some hill. Doesn't mean I should claim I went there. It seems the highest a balloon ever went was 53km. SpaceShipOne went to the 100km and it took them a lot more effort. The altitude record for jet aircraft is 37,650m, this is about the same as the height he jumped from and seems be a better comparison to me. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record