A man breaks both the skydiving record and the sound barrier.

[K0rN_b4LL]

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/35850/felix baumgartner breaks the sound barrier while skydiving after jumping from 24 miles up/

Daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumps from a capule 24 miles above the earth to break both the height record for skydiving and also became the first man to ever break the sound barrier in freefall.



Crazy stuff man. :P

 

[Darkmoonlight]

His balls are massive.

 

[K0rN_b4LL]

I'm gonna have to re-evaluate my life now. XD


*Better one-

 

[Xernuht]

He's not dead?

Shame. Darwin woulda been happy that day...

 

[Wandrian]

Er...how do the physics of this work, exactly? I thought there was terminal velocity to be concerned with. And how the speed of sound is different depending on what it's actually traveling through(temperature, humidity, and altitude affect it). At what point would the speed boost provided by the near friction-free environment of the very edge of the atmosphere be made moot by the friction of the rest of the atmosphere? This just boggles me D: I'd think terminal velocity alone would make falling at even transsonic speeds impossible. Or at least I would, except this jerk had to go smash my comprehension of physics :I