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Pastimes : Space
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (2816)1/27/2012 10:57:40 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 3872
 
If you were not protected your probably would be lack of oxygen, and generally lack of pressure (you only have about 4% of the sea level pressure, if you had an oxygen mask, you would still have decompression problems). Even more so since he took a balloon up (a much slower process than the descent), but he was wearing what amounts to a space suit.



I imagine it would protect him from the cold as well. And he was in freefall for the fist 25,000 feet or so, which would probably take a couple of minutes at most. According to the Wikipedia article I linked to earlier ( en.wikipedia.org ) he "a peak of 614 miles an hour". I wonder if heat would have been more of a problem than cold, with all the friction from moving through the air at that speed. Very thin air though...

Also from the Wikipedia article

A plaque attached below the open door of the Excelsior III gondola read, "This is the highest step in the world".
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