Edge of Space Dive

[ILoveYourMum3]

I would shit myself

[ptownbabe2013]

What's the name of the song?

[xxBRITAINxx]

oh no ive hit a plane... my bad

[cambillyj]

he was going like 500 mph at some point (its because of less wind resistance way

"up" there in case someone tries to argue). at normal diving heights it maxes out around 120 mph. insane!

[iTzBrutal]

And what would i give to be able to do this...... id give all my money to see our sun like that. The ride until he hits the lower atmosphere is very gentle, he does not feel as if he is falling (while ofc he is) then when he hits the the denser atmosphere he it will be abit more turbulent. The song in this great video is also touches something deep inside me, it makes me think of some summers ago when i discovered real science and the universe and realised how little i knew of all that was known

[nooblatatata]

Ok look this is an animation, you can do anything with animation, who knows this looks like it is pretty well in the future, and in the future they might have suites that dont burn up in the atmosphere, so everyone stop trying to get so technical..............

[iTzBrutal]

@nooblatatata ARE U A FUCKING MORON? how FUCKING dumb does a human being get? HUH? Open your eyes you complete retard. I HOPE your trolling, i hope for YOUR sake your trolling. He did this for me, for you, for humanity, for our future developement, for the final frontier, the universe. and u think this is ANIMATION?!!??!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?

[nooblatatata]

@iTzBrutal okay okay one thing that was somebody obviously dumb enough to get on my account and think that was animated, ive watched this video plenty of times and I know its real....hmmm hmmmm hmm but the words have already been spoken by you, so therefore I will track down your IP adress and slaughter your whole fucking family in there sleep..sound good noob?

[cancerman50]

@nooblatatata I saw this on the news. Recently declassifed. It's real.

[stigmaweb]

BOC is more amazing than the jumping 

[liranxs]

this is the most amazing thing ive seen in my entire life!! 0: 51 i would pay millions to see the sun like that!!

[cancerman50]

I heard that at first he was falling but felt no wind resistence.Wasn't this declssified only a few years ago?

[stormking14]

Some ignorant people are leaving comments here. You do not "float" if you get to a certain point just above the Earth. The reason things "float" is because they are orbiting the Earth, FYI traveling thousands and thousands of miles per hour. This man woud simply take longer to land if he went higer.

[DeeDub02]

i bet his dick was solid the whole way down

[VanKlaunch]

Almost nobody commenting on this video has any idea how an orbit works or what it means to "float" in space. You don't just cross a line where gravity ceases to exist. You need to orbit the Earth (which means you are falling very fast around the Earth) to experience weightlessness. They also don't know that you need to travel at extreme speeds to burn up in the atmosphere. Read a god-damn science book, people. No offense, but the info is out there, there's no excuse with the internet.

[brewerbrian420]

If you look closely on google earth you can see Joe Kittingers nuts hanging out by the pool in his back yard! Bravest man on earth. Hope Felix breaks the record when they finally do the Stratos Experiment.

[fizzwidgy]

thumbs up for the man with balls of steal,iron, diamond, copper and anything else fucking solid also HOLYSHIT!

[kcanable]

i love your name marty mcflyz

[ElCompaJaime123]

ulises qitero para  arlette

[amirsthebest12]

alot of guts.i wouldnt have done it...

[MartyMcflyz]

They're actually working on pro suites for this...and in a few years, you can go up in a spacecraft and do this from the actual edge! I hear you're going to have around 7 parachutes...I'm definitely going to try to do this when I can..

[shinra1992]

you got balls of steel

[kh9y6v]

I hear there was a problem with one of his gloves which caused frostbite. he couldnt do anything but take it cause he fell for many minutes in freezing temps.

[illcritikz]

Be funny if he jumped then realised he's not falling and just floating and he went up to far

[Daver869]

how would he get down if he was just floating in space??

i wonder...

[decatombe]

To "float" in space, that is to be in orbit you would have to have some initial speed, which of course he didn't have.

Gravity works all the time, it's just the speed that you have that can make you keep a constant altitude.

[VirgilFoxMusic]

@Daver869

decatombe already answered you, but I thought I might be able to clarify a little.

The Earth's gravity does not suddenly stop at some point out from the surface. In order to counteract the force of gravity, you need to orbit at some speed. That's how satellites etc. stay up there.

It's centrifugal force of an orbiting object vs gravitational force of the Earth.

That's why the shuttles need to re-enter at such great speed - without that speed in the first place, they couldn't stay up

[iTzBrutal]

@illcritikz hehe, he'd have to go ALOT further up

[mjducasse]

thats beautiful, I'd love to do that, can't even begin to imagine how good that must feel!

[IronManu77]

He must have been Superman in those exhilarating few minutes dive.

[iTzBrutal]

15 minutes

[jaynemharper]

Is this real?

[iTzBrutal]

Yes it is real

[Motoman232323]

00:7

How did they get that footage? Space Station?

[iTzBrutal]

Other baloon §motorman

[RacerXGTO]

Wouldn't that suck if he burned up on re entry

[IronManu77]

Only if he re-entering the atmosphere at Mach 28, speed at which shuttles reenter.

[iTzBrutal]

lol he was not in "spac" thats another 85 km up. He was only in the stratosphere. So he couldnt "burn up"

[RacerXGTO]

but it would have been cool. That way everyone could see him coming in with natural bright illumination, courtesy of the Earth.

[warock101]

he has balls o.o

[IronManu77]

If I went to the moon, I would have more balls than he has.

[lifeanomaly]

Is it Joe Kittinger? Hi's break sound barier in free fall. This was done for testing space suit in '57g.

I'd like to try!!

[BKhanford]

why would you do this

sure its cool but

why?

[RollDeep1000]

I am not too sure but i think it was prove that mankind can withstand freefalling from that distance or somethng like that. To cut a long story short it was an experiment. I think to measure body pressure and G-forces on the human body. He fell for somethng like 15-30 min and i am correct it set a guiness record. Those early astronauts were fearless.

[FalsomyOfJcmafia]

to think of it, if we can fall for 30 minuets and not get any sickness or any thing like that we made a breakthrew. and now we got jets to get up there to like no air, i think space travel for the normal person isent to far behind

[mattmonster16]

bet you thats like a 20-30 minute fall

[dakin8888]

from 102 thousand feet its like 15

[JimmyGriffith]

it was 4min 36 secs 

and he opened at 18,000 feet

[dakin8888]

i meant from the time he left the balloon untill his feet touched the ground. it was almost 15 minutes

[SketchPaint]

sick video!

anyone know the name of the track?

[ctseng]

This is a clip from the music video by "Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy".

[deaftodd]

once he was dropped he was going faster than speed of sound because the air was so thin

[Sk8rboiAnkleBreakr]

The Pilots suit had ruptured so he had to bail out just after reaching 100,000 feet like he had planned, he would have died if he had been up much longer. I watched the full movie/video of this, it's quite amazing actually.

[blknig12]

i hate that fallin fellin but in space theres no gravity : ) but as soon as u fell the earth gravity a big rush of that fallin fellin.... : (

[SPYK3O]

If there was no gravity how would he have fallen?

[ProwlerTechno]

edge of space so he is getting more than normal earth gravity

[SPYK3O]

Well, slightly less actually, but with much less air so he would have fallen faster than he would closer to the ground.

I was just responding to blknig12, just because he was in space (or closer to it) doesn't mean there isn't gravity.

[jcgmed]

OMG there goes my lunch +o(

[ALoveEternal]

holy. fucking. god.

I need to experience this.

[andyg256]

hell yeah. how cool would that be

[youwatts]

hmm... in the near/far future space diving MIGHT be possible. it's hella different and greater miles and heights. I'll just do skydiving

[Splinter363]

how long was the free fall?

[bodhod]

10 minutes

[jaheenan77]

4 minutes 36 seconds

[MarioGuy16]

where are they landing at?

[Cartuner25]

Should have thrown a paper airplane up from out there

[chodaboy51500]

It would have dropped like a rock, which would have been cool to see too.

[bubbs0643]

I bet he went home and ate a giant slice of well deserved bacon.

[Angellives4ever]

I dont see how this is possible because... as soon as you fall through the atmosphere you'd burn up!

The atmosphere burns anything "falling" through it!!! Space craft dont as the type of materal they have on them. But people would!

This is technically NOT possible!

[ChronicusMaximus]

They are not above the atmosphere.

[Angellives4ever]

If they are on the edge of space it means they are just above the atmosphere! which makes that jump IMPOSSIBLE as they would burn up falling through it!

[babgab]

Incorrect. The "burning up" you refer to is the result of entering the atmosphere AT A HIGH VELOCITY. It has nothing to do with entering the atmosphere itself. In addition, the "edge of space" refers to the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Not being above the atmosphere.

[leonellus]

they are still in the atmoshere dumbass

[jedimasterlevent]

So is the ISS there isn't an exact known number for when space starts.

[leonellus]

hmmmm....... good point

[epitomeofexotic]

yeah it is. it was done in '65. u just need the right gear.

[epitomeofexotic]

I mean 1960.

[Modelcit]

it was only his right hand that swelled. the glove had a hole so his hand swelled. a little less miraculous than your version but yeah.

[xanamae]

i wanna try!

[XanaduForever]

thats incredibly fascinating

[youjib]

there was a problem with the suit and his hand started to inflate a lot, but he survive

[5starcomment]

it was a blessing in disguise actually, cause he was going to a ball game the next day and saved money cause he didn't have to buy a big novelty hand to wave around...

[rpmartin01]

I heard he landed in the bermuda triangle

[5starcomment]

i heard the chute failed and he was stuck up there...

[basharbers]

ha ha!!

[babaffo]

Thats the dumbest thing i've ever heard.  This is my dream...

[imagine595]

wtf? he didn't land in water he landed in mexico