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  1. 05-24-2008 02:13 PM #1
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    Default Would you have the balls?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/sp...18a&ei=5087%0A

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  2. 05-24-2008 02:23 PM #2
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    thats sick. i'd like to think that i could do that, but i'd probably shit myself irl.
    do the right thing.
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  3. 05-24-2008 02:25 PM #3
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    That guy is hard as FUCK.

    I like him
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  4. 05-24-2008 02:28 PM #4
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    no, i would not
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    he's going to cross the sound barrier, lol.

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  6. 05-24-2008 02:34 PM #6
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    Almost certainly not.
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  7. 05-24-2008 02:46 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by b-rabbit
    thats sick. i'd like to think that i could do that, but i'd probably shit myself irl.
    lol, exactly what i was thinking.
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  8. 05-24-2008 02:48 PM #8
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    Doesn't matter if I have the balls, what's important is that I have the brains...
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  10. 05-24-2008 03:26 PM #10
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    nope, he's gonna die, balls though
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    Stupid imo, but hes got big balls fo sho.
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  13. 05-24-2008 05:13 PM #13
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    I've got £10 even money with a mate that he dies.
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  14. 05-24-2008 05:17 PM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by dwarfman
    I've got £10 even money with a mate that he dies.
    profiting off death is -ev in karma imo
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    OMFG!! I would puke.
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  16. 05-24-2008 05:41 PM #16
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    He will experience weightlessness.
    This isn't right. He's floating up in a balloon, not going into orbit.

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  17. 05-24-2008 05:45 PM #17
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    hes floating pretty high...
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  18. 05-24-2008 05:53 PM #18
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    How high he is has nothing to do with it. He's planning on jumping out of the capsule and falling back to Earth, ergo he's not weightless. He'd need to be in orbit to experience weightlessness.

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  19. 05-24-2008 08:09 PM #19
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    he's french lol

    shouldn't he be retreating somewhere
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
    he's french lol

    shouldn't he be retreating somewhere
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    well, he'll be in freefall, so technically weightless

    anyway, i'd need to regular skydive first, but i would do this
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    I would just like to second zxqv in his assertion that freefall results in experiencing weightlessness.
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    i think im higher than that guy right now
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    Quote Originally Posted by Warpe
    How high he is has nothing to do with it. He's planning on jumping out of the capsule and falling back to Earth, ergo he's not weightless. He'd need to be in orbit to experience weightlessness.
    apparently sir, you do not understand why people experience weightlessness. Being in space does not make you weightless, being in a decaying orbit makes you experience weightlessness, also being at terminal velocity makes you experience weightlessness. If he survives the threshold to terminal velocity (IE crossing the sound barrier) he will be weightless.
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  25. 05-26-2008 10:12 PM #25
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    No, I understand weightlessness, but I also understand English. The original article said:

    He intends to climb into the pressurized gondola of the 650-foot balloon, which resembles a giant jellyfish, and make a two-hour journey to 130,000 feet. At that altitude, almost 25 miles up, Fournier will see both the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth. He will experience weightlessness.

    Then he plans to step out of the capsule...
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    He intends to climb into the pressurized gondola of the 650-foot balloon, which resembles a giant jellyfish, and make a two-hour journey to 130,000 feet. At that altitude, almost 25 miles up, Fournier will see both the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth.

    Then he plans to step out of the capsule, wearing only a special space suit and a parachute, and plunge in a mere 15 minutes, experiencing weightlessness along the way.
    ...with the following correction:

    Correction: May 26, 2008

    An earlier version of this article misstated the time in which a high-altitude parachutist would experience weightlessness. It is experienced during the descent, not while in the balloon's gondola.
    Context is everything.

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  26. 05-26-2008 10:54 PM #26
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    maybe they were trying to say free falling?
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  28. 05-27-2008 11:45 AM #28
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    lol, I was about to post the same thing. Better luck next time...

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  29. 05-27-2008 05:34 PM #29
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  30. 05-27-2008 05:48 PM #30
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    Ya, I'd feel real confident nothing would happen to my suit on the way down...they can't even get the balloons off the ground without something getting f'ed up.
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