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Who's up for a little flying?
>> Anonymous
haha read this article. purdy neat
>> Anonymous
>>168681
lol, they are ODST's in the making...
>> Anonymous
That article is stupid, the temperatures would be massive if you jumped wearing a suit like that. It should be completely flat.
>> Maxwell !ZmdSh6eNG.
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Cover, and a great article btw.
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>>168946
Humans are not very aerodynamic.
Falling strait down from 328,000 feet is not that bad if they can keep the weight of the suit down and maybe provide for a drogue chute.
>> Anonymous
>>168681

The opening theme to Planetes now becomes very apt.
>> Anonymous
The weird thing about this space-diving is that one of the guys behind it lost his wife when Columbia was destroyed. I'm thinking he's got some unresolved issues.
>> Anonymous
Hydralisks continue to influence psuedoscience.
>> Anon Type-1
>>168946
Like a kite?

>>169034
I think its an inderect way of saying to NASA to make an escape plan, rather than strapping them all in for the Hellevator

>>168959
Great Balls of Fire
>> Maxwell !ZmdSh6eNG.
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>>169034
His wife worked hard to become an astronaut in an organization that hung her and the crew out to dry. I think he's got every right to be haunted by that.

Nasa never made a contingency plan for crew safety and outright ignored a series of launch accidents that finally came to bite them in the ass.
The new Shuttles with safer return profiles have all been scraped in favor of a capsule thats going to blast through the upper atmosphere at even higher temperatures.

Left to the government, things dealing with crew safety are not likely to get developed.