Space Diving

Inspired by Joe Kittinger who in 1960 leapt from a balloon 30km high, this is a glimpse of the great new sport we'll be seeing in a few years.

Visualization by Kyle Botha

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• space
• diving
• orbital
• surfing
• giant
• leap
• shuttle
• launch
• adrenaline
• reentry
• pwnage
• extreme
• sport
• armadillo
• aerospace
• weightless
• girl
• aerogel
• suit
• astronaut
• scifi
• earth
• skydive
• woman
• vfs
• kyle
• botha
• demo
• reel
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• film
• school
• 3d
• animation
• visual
• effects
• maya
• softimage
• xsi
• compositing

[Machigli]

how would you survive re-entry?

[FurryHusky]

Thumbs up if you saw this on Adult Swim.

[oobtronik]

that was great, well done.

[RayenIlu]

1:13 - 3855km/h ? yes she will burn.. :D

[DjTendril]

It doesn't look like an orbital flight so you aren't re-entering at the 17,000 mph of say the apollo program of the shuttle. If it's a sub orbital I expect you would use a couple of drogue shoots to slow you down then you fall back to earth at 1 G and will reach the terminal velocity of a regular skydiver.

[MrB4bis]

you can also land on a different country :P

[NightHawkX321]

@peterlaveus no she wouldnt it has a special suit that lacks holes or tears to allow hot gasses to get in but she would be pretty hot

[NightHawkX321]

The fact is quite simple. It would consist of a one pice jumpsuit. The gloves and helmet would come off. Next is the drouge chute and stabalizing rockets in the gloves and backpack. The suit would be coated in a special poly-resin to resist heat. It has to be a jumpsuit that has no rips or tears or hot would get i and kill you. The helmet visor would be coated in quarts crystals or another heat resisting object. At 3,000 feet the main chute would deploy. So thats how!

[HarryCaray3000]

@prcowboy3486 I think it has more to do with the fact that people would only get to the upper stratosphere. There are two more layers of atmosphere after that before you can officially declare spaceflight.

[Rijelthelovefool]

@Machigli wrap your self in tin foil

[prcowboy3486]

@Machigli It's honestly quite feasible. Only reason why the Space Shuttle has special plates to prevent burn up upon reentry is because they are flying at higher speeds than just having gravity take into effect on an object. Also it's all dependent on the angle of entry as well. The angle of entry applies air friction from the atmosphere's molecules and elements on an object which ignites and causes a burn effect. You don't get this from a normal free-fall.

[TheGodlyPolitician]

If I have to become President in order to break kittinger's record (military may have laws on how high civilians can skydive) I am doing it. As Commander in Chief I will order a B2 bomber to take me up and skydive from 150,000 ft!