1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from dot com. 2 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Hello again, everyone, and welcome to tech Stuff. My name 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: is Chris Poulette and I'm an editor at how Stuff 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Sitting across from me, as always, is 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: senior writer Jonathan Strickland. He there, well, today, Chris, I 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,159 Speaker 1: thought we would talk about something that happened recently in 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: the news, especially at the time that we're recording this, 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: since it is currently a mid October ish twelve, two 9 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: thousand twelve, and uh and earlier this week as of 10 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: the time we're recording this, a fellow named Felix baumb 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: Gardner did something pretty phenomenal. Yes, actually he fell nice, 12 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: he fell a lot. Yeah, he fell more than any 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: man has ever fallen before right in space. No one 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: and hear you fall as a matter of fact, Uh, 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: you know you said that it's been in the news. 16 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: I think this is going to captivate people's attention for 17 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: a long long time, because I don't know that anybody 18 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: is ready to better this brand new record. And he said, 19 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: and and this record was set more than you know, 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: forty years after the last one. So uh so, yeah, 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: it's been a while. So what what we're talking about 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: is the Red Bull Stratos jump sponsored by Red Bull. 23 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: Was this crazy attempt to break some world records, and 24 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: many world records were broken. Actually three for you know, 25 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: the four that they were aiming for they broke. If 26 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: you're curious about the one they did not break, it 27 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: was for longest free fall, uh. And I think they 28 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: were going by longest as in uh time. Really they 29 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: were looking at the time. It's kind of interesting because 30 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: according to what they were they were going by the 31 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: person who had the the record for the highest jump previously, 32 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: which was a uh that Air Force United States Air 33 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: Force colonel named Joseph Kittinger his name pronounced Kittinger on 34 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: the news report that I okay, I don't know that 35 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,519 Speaker 1: er um at any rate he in in Uh. He 36 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: did several jumps for the Air Force to kind of 37 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: test what this How how could a human survive in 38 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: a high altitude jump? And one on one of those jumps, 39 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: he fell for four minutes and thirty six seconds before 40 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: deploying his main shoot. However, uh, he did use a 41 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: drogue shoot, which is a smaller shoot not meant to 42 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: uh to slow you to the safe speed, but rather 43 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: to help guide your descent because well we'll get into 44 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: why that's important, but he had that deployed in his jump. However, Uh, 45 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: if you're really going to be a stickler, then uh 46 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: two years later that was in nineteen sixty two years later, 47 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two, the Eugene Andreev jumped from an altitude 48 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 1: of around eighty three thousand, five twenty three ft, which 49 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: is around twenty four hundred fifty seven meters uh over Russia, 50 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: and um he fell for eighty thousand, three eighty feet 51 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: or thousand, five hundred meters before deploying his shoot without 52 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: using a drug shoot. So depending on the way you 53 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: look at his is the longest free fall because there 54 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: was no drug shoot deployed anyway. Uh, baum Gartner's fall 55 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: did not last that long before deploying his shoot. It 56 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: was four minutes twenty two seconds if I recall correctly. 57 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: So he did not break that record. However, other records 58 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: he definitely did break. And it was a remarkable achievement 59 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: on multiple fronts. I mean, just human endurance to be 60 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: able to handle that kind of uh battering about you 61 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: get in a jump of that size, as well as 62 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: the technical uh achievements that we made in order to 63 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: make this possible. So we wanted to talk a little 64 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: bit about why this is such a challenging thing to 65 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: take on and the kind of stuff he used to 66 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: achieve it. And and of course this was a huge effort. 67 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: I mean, this is not one guy going up in 68 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: a plane and jumping out, uh and deploying a shoot. 69 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: I mean he there was there was a huge team 70 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: in place to bring this about. And of course, as 71 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: Jonathan has already mentioned, this is not an effort that 72 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: was backed by a government. This was completely private, um, 73 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: which you know, in some respects makes things easier. Um. 74 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: And yes, they didn't use any kind of spacecraft. They 75 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: did have a pressure rised capsule that was lifted into 76 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: place by a very very tall balloon. Yeah. Actually the 77 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: balloon got less tall as it got as it gut 78 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: further up in the atmosphere because of the changes in pressure. 79 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: In fact, that's probably the first thing we should talk about, 80 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: is the air pressure and why uh, you know, why 81 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: there were so many things need to be in place 82 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: in order for him to have a successful jump. Um. 83 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: Air pressure changes at elevations, right, so uh, you know 84 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: it makes sense. You you're figured when you think about 85 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: the Earth, and you think about the atmosphere around the Earth, Well, 86 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: if you're on the surface of the Earth, you've got 87 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: more atmosphere above you pressing down on you than you 88 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: would if you were quite a bit of the ways up. 89 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: And so at sea level you have one atmosphere of pressure. Now, 90 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: if you're wondering, well, what does that mean in terms 91 00:05:55,160 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: of other units, that's that's just under fifteen pounds per 92 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: square inch or and you're welcome Europe that I did 93 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: this one point oh three kilograms per square centimeter, but 94 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: one atmosphere is a much easier way of saying that. 95 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: So that's at sea level, and that's the average. Okay, 96 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: so even even at sea level, that number of changes somewhat, 97 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: but the average is that number now at thirty five 98 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: thousand feet, which is, you know, around where a lot 99 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: of commercial air flights might be somewhere around in that area, 100 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: which is ten thousand seven. See I did this all 101 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: the way around. It's about three and a half pounds 102 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: per square inch. So remember it at sea level fifteen 103 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: pounds thou feet around three and a half pounds. That, 104 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: by the way, is a point to five kilograms per 105 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: square centimeter UH and UH or point to four atmospheres 106 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: at around sixty two thousand ft or nineteen thousand meters, 107 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: the pressure has reached a point where it's it's so 108 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: um so much less than what we experience that we 109 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: can have some pretty serious health risks. Um. You know, 110 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,559 Speaker 1: we're we've evolved on this planet to to be able 111 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: to survive in the conditions of our environment. So you know, 112 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: we're used to having this certain amount of air pressure. 113 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: Beyond that we don't do so well. And if the 114 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: pressure is too light, then our our blood can actually 115 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: start to have gas form within it and then it'll 116 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: will expand, which is called ebulism, and it is not 117 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:50,119 Speaker 1: a good thing to have happened to you. So that's 118 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: why pressure is a big deal. And of course we 119 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: haven't even reached the the height of the where the 120 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: jump was, because the goal for this jump was to 121 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: about at around a hundred and twenty thousand feet uh. 122 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,679 Speaker 1: In actuality, he got all the way up to around 123 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: a d one hundred feet, which is thirty nine thousands, 124 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: which is just over twenty four miles up or thirty 125 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: nine kilometers for those of you who wanted to you know, 126 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: not divide that number of meters there. Um, we took 127 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: about two hours frohim to get there. But at that 128 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: at that elevation, air pressure is less than one pound 129 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: per square inch or less than point oh seven kilograms 130 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: per square centimeter or point zero seven atmospheres, So you're 131 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: talking about very little air pressure at all. And because 132 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: of that, both the capsule he was in and of 133 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: course the suit he was wearing needed to be pressurized 134 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: so that he would not have any major health risks 135 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: when he when he jumped out or just from the ascent. 136 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: So the capsule was was pressurized first, and it was 137 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: done that way so that he would not have to 138 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: pressurize his suit, uh from the from the ground as 139 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: they started to ascend. Um, by having it in the capsule, 140 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: it took some of that that that power, that energy 141 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: that was needed off the the actual suit, which is good. 142 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: You want to preserve that as much as you can. 143 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 1: Once they reached the float height, which is where the 144 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: balloon was not gonna rise any higher and not as 145 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: high as it was going to go. Uh, then that 146 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 1: was when it was time to open up the door 147 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: and start off the jump. Well that that's where they 148 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: had to de pressurize the cabin and pressurize the suit. 149 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: Actually pressurize the suit first, obviously very important step, but 150 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: then depressurized the cabin so that they could open up 151 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: the door, because you can't open that door otherwise there's 152 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: too much pressure on the inside. It's just like if 153 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: you're in an airplane and um, you have the emergency exit, 154 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: the emergency exit. If you were at altitude, it's going 155 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: to have so much tremendous amount of pressure on the 156 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: inside because the airplane itself is pressurized while the outside 157 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: is not. You can't open that door that you're just 158 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: not physically strong enough. Same thing here. Um, once it 159 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: was de pressurized, he could open up the door. His 160 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: his suit had been pressurized, um, and that was what 161 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,239 Speaker 1: gave him that safety of at least from the environment. 162 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many other things you have to 163 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: worry about, but as far as air pressure goes, that 164 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: was how they took care of that. And of course 165 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: all the different parts of his suit were sealed so 166 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: that there wouldn't be any leaks, like the the gloves 167 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: had uh, these these rotating locks on them so that 168 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: you could not have them airtight with the suit as 169 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: as well as the helmet. UM. This was really important 170 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: because Kitteninger had a jump where he had a hole 171 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: in one of his gloves and UM apparently the the 172 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: glove ended up for the pressure, it ended up sticking 173 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: to his hand enough so that it wasn't a huge problem. 174 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: H And he did not report this to ground control 175 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: because of fear that they would cancel the jump. And 176 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 1: but by the time he landed there was a problem. 177 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: His hand started to swell and apparently swelled to about 178 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: twice the size of normal H due to the H 179 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: the changes in pressure and and and and so that's 180 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 1: something you don't want to have happen if you can 181 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: avoid it. That's true. That's true. Yeah. The the suit 182 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: was actually made by a company from Massachusetts, David clark Um. 183 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: They made suits for the Geminy missions as well as 184 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: Space Shuttle missions. Gemini missions. If that sounds like an 185 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: internal joke, it it sort of is. You gotta listen 186 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: to you previous Space podcast. We did a series on 187 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: the Gemini missions a few years ago. One of the 188 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: UH astronauts from that time kept pronouncing it Geminy, and 189 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 1: Jonathan's blood pressure just kept rising every time he said it. 190 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: Jimminy Cricket. Yeah. So yeah, it was the same company 191 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: that did that. They've they've made all kinds of suits 192 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: for aeronautics and space for decades now. So um, you 193 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: know they're they're well known, well respected firm to to 194 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: have done that. And obviously since the jump was successful, 195 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: no spoilers intended, but you know, well it's nice to know. 196 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: It's must say, you can't really spoil something that already happened. Um, well, 197 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: now if somebody's just now hearing about this, yeah, well 198 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: then you have been hiding in a hole. You can 199 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: you can watch actually watched this live when it happened, 200 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: and uh, from about an hour into it. I turned 201 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: it on after we've been on for an hour because 202 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: the ascent took just over two hours to get to 203 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: the right altitude. So, um, Jonathan told me about how 204 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: he felt when bum Gardner opened the capsule door and 205 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 1: started to step out, and they call him fearless Felix. 206 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 1: That's the nickname here is sheer terror was what was 207 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: going through me seeing his Yeah, well we'll get into it. 208 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: But but to go back to the suit, it also 209 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: could withstand temperatures as low as minus ninety degrees fahrenheit 210 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: or minus sixty eight celsius or over one degrees fahrenheit 211 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: or thirty seven point eight degrees celsius. So U also 212 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: very important because, of course, at that elevation you were 213 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: also talking about very very cold temperatures um and in 214 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: fact there were parts of his fall that were colder 215 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: than others. It was interesting because it actually warmed up 216 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: a little bit from um I forget no, no, no, 217 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: no, no no, not friction. I'm just talking about the ambient 218 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: temperature actually warmed up, like there was a point in 219 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: the atmosphere. Yeah. No, I was watching and they talked 220 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: about it too. They said, well, you know, closer to 221 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: the sun. I'm like, really, you're not that much closer. 222 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: The Sun's ninety three million miles away. I think a 223 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: few feet isn't a huge difference. But but it was interesting. 224 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: You could watch and the temperature gauge was going up 225 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: and went really low and then started creeping up again, 226 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: just slightly, not like it wasn't like skyrocketing, but at 227 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: the height where he was jumping at, the temperature was 228 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: around minus ten fahrenheit, which is minus twenty three celsius. 229 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: So I blame cows. Yeah, methane production, is that what 230 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: you're talking about? Okay, I was trying to see where 231 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: you're going there, not based on scientific fact, mostly because 232 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say cows. So yeah, So the 233 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: suit had to be able to withstand these cold temperatures 234 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: as well. And uh, his suit also had very it 235 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: looked a lot like the space suits you would the 236 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: uh you know in any NASA presentation or if you 237 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: watch any of those launches. It looks a lot like those. Actually. 238 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: It also looked a little bit um just from appearance's sake, Uh, 239 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: sort of like the stuff that race car drivers wear, 240 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: probably mostly because the you know, the names and the 241 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: decos and things, right. Yeah. It also had it also 242 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: had a sun visor that that Felix could put down 243 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: or up if he needed to. H and the the 244 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: visor itself was heated in order to have it, uh 245 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: avoid icing issues. You know obviously if you're if you're 246 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: going through super cold temperatures and you've you know, we 247 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: give off a lot of water vapor as it turns out, 248 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: and it could be there could be a lot of 249 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: icing problems, both on the inside and outside of a suit. 250 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: And uh, in fact, that was one of the issues 251 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: that almost seemed to be a big problem during the 252 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: the ascent, because it looked like, according to Felix, that 253 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: the face plate was not heating properly. And uh, you 254 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: know they I think the first time I heard about 255 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: that was when he was around eighty thousand feet or 256 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: so and still rising, obviously still climbing. And and then 257 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: you hear the people on who are speaking during the 258 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: whole ascent, you know, the people who are relaying information 259 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: to the audience, saying, everyone here is trying to find 260 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: out what options we have. And I'm like, wow, what 261 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: options do you have? And the the option, the biggest, 262 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: like last ditch option thing, you know, in order to 263 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: get him back to Earth safely. You you you ditch 264 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: the jump, right, But the capsule itself was connected to 265 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: the balloon and hat and could disconnect and had its 266 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: own parachute. So the worst case scenario, uh, action would 267 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: be to cut the tie to the balloon, to deploy 268 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: the parachute on the capsule and have the capsule come 269 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: down to Earth. Now that was not ideal, uh most well, 270 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: first of all, you're aboarding the jump, so that's not ideal. 271 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 1: But also it would have been a bit of a 272 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: rough landing. Now, the capsule itself had a crash sections 273 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: built into it, crash pads to absorb some of that 274 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: impact if it were to to have to land now 275 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: and and of course they did detach the capsule at 276 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: the end of the jump anyway, because they wanted to 277 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: retreat the capsule. But um uh, it's it definitely would 278 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: not have been a soft landing. It would have been 279 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: a little rough. And it's interesting because the inside the 280 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: capsule again looked very much like the Gemini capsules. Um 281 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: it was. It was a tiny little thing. Really. The 282 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 1: capsule was six ft tall or one eight meters and 283 00:17:53,480 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: it weighed pounds or one thousands. And yeah, I mean 284 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: you take a look at this and you're like, wow, 285 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: this looks like it would fit, you know, in a 286 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,479 Speaker 1: in a special casing on the top of a rocket. 287 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 1: It really did look like some of those early NASA spacecraft. 288 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 1: True enough, So should we talk about the about the jump? Sure? Um, 289 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: I mean there's other there are other things. Actually before 290 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: I want to talk about the balloon. I want to 291 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: talk about the balloon because the balloon is crazy, so 292 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: it has its own story. Actually five for some of them. Well, 293 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: the the weird thing I thought, the strangest thing to 294 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: me about the balloon was how incredibly thin that material was. 295 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: So uh it's it was made out of polyethylene plastic 296 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: film and it was point zero zero zero eight inches thick. 297 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: That's pretty thin. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty thin. Or point 298 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: zero zero zero two point zero zero zero two centimeters thick. 299 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: There we go. I'm not gonna get that number right, um, 300 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: but yeah, super super thin. They called it a forty 301 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: acre dry cleaner bag because it was essentially made of 302 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: very similar stuff. Now, if you're thinking like, how could 303 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: that possibly bear the weight of this capsule, which you 304 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: know weighs quite a bit, uh, the real the way 305 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: they did it was they used this load tape that 306 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: was connected to the balloon, and the load tape was 307 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: actually what bore the load of the capsule. The tape 308 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: also had in it a special reflective material so that 309 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: the balloon would show up on radar, very important for 310 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: any aircraft in the area, although of course the mission 311 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: was working along with air traffic controllers to make sure 312 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: there wouldn't be any problems on that because you know, 313 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: you can't really direct where a balloon is going to go. 314 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: You are, you are at the mercy of the winds. 315 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: Although this was over the desert in the southwestern United States, 316 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 1: it was populated areas right near Roswell, New Mexico. So 317 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: it's really just the military and aliens that were there. 318 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: By the way, I'm totally joking. The whole Roswell alien 319 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: thing is absolutely ludicrous. But anyway, um so, yeah, and 320 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: that balloon was created by a t a aerospace and uh, 321 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: here's some here's some stats on the balloons. Some some 322 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: for people who are curious about how big. This was 323 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: so uninflated it was five hundred ft long or one 324 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: point six meters now at the height once it was inflated, 325 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: and which takes about an hour. Takes aboun hour to 326 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: inflate this balloon with helium. They used helium because it's 327 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: a non flammable very important if you've been wondering why 328 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: there's a helium shortage. Yeah yeah, talk about that's a 329 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: big balloon. That's a big balloon can fill up with helium. 330 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. The Yellow HC might have a few things 331 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: to say to Felix. Explain to your kid why she 332 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: can't get a door A balloon now you know. So, yeah, 333 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: just get the door. A balloon filled with hydrogen. I 334 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: can't imagine how anything bad happening from that. Take it 335 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: to a birthday party, don't do that. Hydrogen is highly flammable. 336 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: That's why they went with helium the candles. So the 337 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: height of balloon once it was fully inflated at takeoff 338 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: was about five or one hundred sixty seven point six meters, 339 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: and once it reached its altitude, the height was more 340 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 1: like three hundred thirty four point eight two ft or 341 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: a hundred two point one because, again, as it got 342 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: higher up in the atmosphere, the atmospheric pressure decreased, the 343 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: balloon started to um The height began to decrease, but 344 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: it's it's diameter increased. They began to round out quite 345 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: a bit, because when you first looked at it looked 346 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: like a tear drop. It was kind of tall and skinny, 347 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: really compared compared to what we think of when we 348 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: do think of birthday party balloons. You know, I mean 349 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: those are tear drop shaped too, but not this is 350 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: a lot longer than that, right, So once it got 351 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: up to the room here, yeah, yeah, it definitely rounded 352 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: out as it got higher up and uninflated. It weighed 353 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: a smelt three thousand seven eight pounds or one you 354 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: just wanted to say, smell I did. And yeah, and 355 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: it also had a vent so that it could vent 356 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: off helium. Now this is also really important. You know 357 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: what bugs me those other balloons It didn't It didn't 358 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: vent anger invented helium. Yeah. Now, the the reason for 359 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: the vent is very important because the helium was expanding 360 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: as the balloon was climbing, right, so at there does 361 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: come a point where there's a possibility that that expansion 362 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: could damage the balloon itself and tear the balloon. So 363 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: the balloon needed to have a way of venting out 364 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: excess helium in order to avoid that. And in fact, 365 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: they did vent helium at least once or twice, especially 366 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: once they passed that hundred twenty thousand feet mark, because 367 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: out of again was their goal, and they went right 368 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: by it and kept on going. Um. So, you know, 369 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: there was a point where there was some concern about 370 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: making sure that the the balloon and capsule maintained integrity 371 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 1: because it was starting to go beyond what they had planned. 372 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: So as long as they didn't run into any wire 373 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: coat hangers, because that seems to be the downfall of 374 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: most dry cleaner bags. Yeah, that's exactly the problem. Uh Yeah, 375 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: they and they also had some pretty some other pretty 376 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: cool equipment involved in this. They had nine high definition 377 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: cameras that were mounted on both the suit and on 378 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: an inside the capsule. So they had cameras mounted on 379 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: on these arms pointed back at the capsule, so you 380 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: could get these great views of the capsule as it 381 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 1: was going up, also as the door opened, which that's 382 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 1: the part where I was terrified, and I'll talk about 383 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: that in a second, But there are also cameras on 384 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: the suits they could capture footage during the actual jump. 385 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: And plus beyond that, they had a helicopter that was 386 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: using a camera mounted on a stabilization gyroscope to track 387 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: Felix's movements. And they had ground cameras on these huge 388 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: trucks with these uh these enormous um basis that were motorized, 389 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: so they could track the progress of the balloon. And 390 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: it's phenomenal to me because you think that's a balloon 391 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: that is more or less twenty four miles up in 392 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: the air. So to have a camera that can capture 393 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: something that's that far away is pretty amazing. You know. 394 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: You think about that for a second, you're like, well, yeah, 395 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 1: I've got a digital zoom on my camera because at 396 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: the one point seven and well, this camera can capture 397 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: something that's twenty four miles away. Well, tracking the balloon 398 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: was a whole lot easier than tracking Felix after he 399 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: stepped out of the capsule. Right, he's much first of all, uh, yeah, 400 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 1: he doesn't have that reflectively smaller, although not that much smaller. 401 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,959 Speaker 1: It's the six foot tall capsule. He was moving a 402 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 1: whole lot fast. Yes, yes, because he was he was 403 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: going downwards. Um, and yeah, that was That was definitely. 404 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: I mean, the footage that they captured was pretty phenomenal. 405 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 1: And especially when you sit there and think about the 406 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 1: challenges involved and and beyond that, not just capturing the footage, 407 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: but transmitting the footage getting that live feed from the capsule, 408 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: you're thinking, wow, that's they had to dedicate a lot 409 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: of bandwidth, you know, in order to get that information 410 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: from the capsule to the ground and stream it out live. 411 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: And in fact, they had three dedicated DEO down links 412 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: with built in redundancy to get that information down to 413 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: the ground, and then they had a fiber optic network 414 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: on the ground to process that information, and they had 415 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: live switching so they could switch you know, different cameras 416 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: at different times to give the best angle or the 417 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: best camera experience at any given moment, which was pretty 418 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: you know, this was it was clearly something that the 419 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 1: whole media side of it was. There was a lot 420 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 1: of thought put toward it, which is, you know, that's 421 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: so getting to the actual jump. Once they got to 422 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: the point where uh, they had reached the right altitude, uh, 423 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: they had to go through a very long checklist to 424 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: make sure that everything was prepared before the jump, and 425 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: that involved pressurizing the suit, disconnecting the suits from the 426 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: suit from the capsule because things, the capsule had its 427 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: own oxygen supply because again at that elevation, uh, the 428 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: atmosphere is so thin that we would not be able 429 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: to breathe up there. So the capsule it's own oxygen supply, 430 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: and then the suit did as well. So he had 431 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: to detach the suit from the capsule because clearly you 432 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,120 Speaker 1: can't jump if you're still got all these hoses connected 433 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 1: where you can it would not go well. So there 434 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: was that there was the whole depressurization, opening up the door, 435 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: moving the chair around quite a bit. The chair inside 436 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 1: the capsule could move forward and backward a little so 437 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: that he could reach various controls um and it was 438 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: the point where he had to move the chair back. 439 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: He had depressurized, the capsule, pressurized the suit, the door 440 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: had opened, and then they used an exterior camera to 441 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: capture the moment where he moves. He's lifted his feet 442 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: up so they're above the threshold of the little capsule door, 443 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: and then he moves the chair forward, which means his 444 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: feet come out of the doorway and over nothing. And 445 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: that's where I freaked out. At that point he was 446 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: he had to stand on a a platform that was 447 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: about the size of an average skateboard. Yeah, and there 448 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: he isn't a space suit standing on a skateboard sized platform, 449 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: holding onto these rails that are on either side of 450 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: the capsule door. And uh, once he had to go ahead, 451 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: he let go and started falling. And I don't think 452 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: I breathed until until he stopped spinning. So here's one 453 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: of the issues about jumping at that height. So again, 454 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: atmosphere is really thin, right, you don't immediately start to 455 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: slow down. In fact, the atmosphere is so thin that 456 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,479 Speaker 1: you will go faster than you would if you jumped 457 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: from uh, you know, any other height. Like you know, 458 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: you don't have anything pushing against you, or not not 459 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: as much pushing against you, because there is atmosphere out there, 460 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: it's just not as much it's in the stratosphere at 461 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: this point. And in case you're wondering, I happen to 462 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: catch a news report in which they had asked him, 463 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: and Felix said that he didn't look down, he was 464 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: looking straight out, which at that at that altitude, I'm 465 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: not sure how you could avoid it because the earth 466 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: is you could see the curvature, curvature of the Earth, 467 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: and you're going, okay, that's That's something else that's kind 468 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: of interesting is that the curvature you can see it 469 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: at that altitude. But uh, the if you look at 470 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 1: the footage from the jump, the curvature is incredibly evident. 471 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: Like you it's just it's it's it's obvious. The reason 472 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: it's obvious is because the camera lens, it's a wide 473 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: angle camera lens, so it artificially has bent the edges 474 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: so it looks like the the curvature is much more. 475 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: It looks how much further up than he really was. Um. 476 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: But in reality that you could you from what I've 477 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: been told, you can see the curvature at that altitude. 478 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: It's just not as dramatic as what it appeared as 479 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: on the live stream. So I just wanted to point 480 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: that out. But but at that altitude, he he um. 481 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: He moved very quickly into a very fast speed thirty 482 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: two ft per second per second or nine point seven 483 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: five four per second square. That's the acceleration of gravity. People, 484 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: if you, if you are, if you are at all 485 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: interested in physics, you will memorize that and use it 486 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: all the time. So he rapidly increased to that speed. 487 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: His his his top speed UH is estimated because we 488 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: at the time of the recording of this podcast, we 489 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: do not have the final information. But his top speed 490 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: was estimated at eight hundred thirty three point nine miles 491 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: per hour or one thousand, three hundred forty two point 492 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: eight kilometers per hour mock one point to four. Yes, 493 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: so mock being the speed of sound. He had broken 494 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: the sound barrier, the first human to do so un 495 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: unaided by any sort of vehicle. Yes, and um, that's 496 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: another interesting point than the interview with the scientist that 497 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: I had watched said that, Um, the speed of sound 498 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: is a little different at that altitude. To write sound 499 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: sound travels, you know, the speed of sound is dependent 500 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: upon the medium through which it's traveling. Sound will travel 501 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: at a different rate of speed depending on if you 502 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,239 Speaker 1: are and you know, it will travel at different race 503 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: speed from sea level two feet. Uh, it'll it travels 504 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: at a different rate if it's through water or through 505 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: a solid. So, um, yeah, it's one of the In fact, 506 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: we should might as well. This is a little bit 507 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: of a tangent, but lights the same way light travels 508 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: at you you've heard of the speed of light being 509 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: a constant. That's true, but that's talking about the speed 510 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: of light in a vacuum. The speed of light will 511 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 1: change depending on what it's traveling through. Now most of 512 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: the time for us as human beings, that changes, Uh, 513 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: imperceptible to us without incredibly sensitive measuring equipment. So to us, 514 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: it's you know, going at at the speed of light 515 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: or just a hair under the speed of light is 516 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: effectively the same thing for us. Yeah, And I've tried 517 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: to observe that myself at my home. But I keep 518 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: getting dust in my eye every time I open that 519 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: little bag, and it doesn't seem like there's any light 520 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: in there at all. But it may be the dust. 521 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: I can't tell vacuum, So you should go with the dice. 522 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: And that's the um. But yeah, he uh. It's funny 523 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: because when you get the idea of somebody jumping out 524 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: of an airplane, you're doing a traditional skydive. Um. Most 525 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: of us have a pretty good idea of what that 526 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: quote unquote looks like. You You you stand in the door, 527 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: you jump out of the plane, and you instantly put 528 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: out your arms and legs and you just sort of 529 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: glide until you feel like it's time to open your shoes. 530 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: Then you pull it and go. Well, Felix wasn't as graceful, 531 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: but it wasn't his fault. He is it is. It 532 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: turns out that whole atmosphere being thinner thing kind of 533 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: affects the way you fall at that he couldn't use 534 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: air resistance to help orient himself, because that's one thing. 535 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: Experienced skydivers can do all sorts of really cool maneuvers 536 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: while they're while they're diving and it's all due to 537 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: the whole air resistance and being able to use their 538 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: bodies to angle in certain ways. Either they can do 539 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: a you know, they can they can try to resist 540 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 1: or change their wind resistance, like like reduce it to 541 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: a point where they're falling very very very fast. Or 542 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: they can try to increase their wind resistance by increasing 543 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: the surface area as much as possible the somersaults and 544 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: other kinds of But at that altitude, there wasn't enough air, 545 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: not enough atmosphere to be able to do that. So 546 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: there wasn't there wasn't that level of control, and so 547 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: Felix did start spinning. Uh. And if you watch the video, 548 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: that also was terrifying because you can see him spinning 549 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: around and around. You're like, okay, I sure hope he's 550 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: able to maintain consciousness not black out because uh, Kittenger said, 551 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: you know, he blacked out during his fall because of 552 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: us similar issue. And that's why the drug shoot was 553 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: so important, was too. It was actually I think it 554 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: was not the hundred and two thousand foot jump, but 555 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 1: the previous one the Kinder did where he blacked out, 556 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 1: and so that's why the drug shoot was so important 557 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: for him um in his in his highest jump. Well, yeah, 558 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,360 Speaker 1: you could see that spinning happening. But then once once 559 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: he did start hitting the the next levels where the 560 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: atmosphere is starting to to increase in density, he was 561 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: able to orient himself into a traditional skydive position, the 562 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 1: delta POSITIONE. And and is that what's called? That's interesting. 563 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: I've never gone skydiving, so I know very little about it. 564 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,520 Speaker 1: Although and Internet, this is just between me and you. 565 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: Do not tell my wife because she would flip out. 566 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: But I am planning on doing a skydiving jump, possibly 567 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: during CE. Are not. I am really Yeah, me and 568 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,240 Speaker 1: uh I as actar of this Weekend Tech, are thinking 569 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 1: about doing some skydiving during CS. Uh. Don't into the 570 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:19,359 Speaker 1: Las Vegas Convention Center, doubtful. Um, it'll be much further 571 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,959 Speaker 1: out into the desert. But don't tell my wife because 572 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: she would flip out. Okay, pinky swear Okay. So anyway, yeah, 573 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: he assumed that position, and then that was the point 574 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: where I was I said, oh, good, Well, then he's 575 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,439 Speaker 1: clearly he's clearly conscious and he's aware of what's going 576 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: on and he's able to respond. Um. He uh deployed 577 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: his shoot at the appropriate time. And uh, that was 578 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: a big that that got a big cheer from ground control. 579 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: And did you see did you watch any of the 580 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,920 Speaker 1: video of his landing. It was a perfect landing. He 581 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 1: it was like it was like he just stepped off 582 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 1: a step. Yeah, Like it wasn't like he just came 583 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: from one thousand feet. It was like he had just 584 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,840 Speaker 1: walked down a set of stairs. Yeah, I would have 585 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: looked like a sack of potatoes from a would beg 586 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,320 Speaker 1: I would have been dragged at least another few hundred meters. 587 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,919 Speaker 1: He's an accomplished jumper. He's accomplished base jumper um, which 588 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: is you know, jumping off of ironically enough, it's you know, 589 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: lower altitudes, bridges and all sorts of other different physical 590 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,239 Speaker 1: features just you know. So he's he's this is well, 591 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,399 Speaker 1: you wouldn't try this at home anyway, but I mean, 592 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,919 Speaker 1: this is not something from that that an inexperienced person did. 593 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: He's uh, clearly a well accomplished jumper. And and he yeah, 594 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: it was an absolutely perfect landing. And then he got 595 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 1: as soon as he came to a stop, he went 596 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: down on his knees and put his hands up in 597 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 1: the air like that was pretty awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 598 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: it was. I had made the comment of if I 599 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: had done that, I would have made the decision I 600 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,719 Speaker 1: am never leaving the ground to end. From now on, 601 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 1: people bring stuff to me. I I did my part, 602 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 1: like I'm not going back over the ocean. You bring 603 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: that continent, right, I want to go to London. Bring 604 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: London here. That was. It was an absolutely amazing, amazing 605 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: feat and it does have its uh, it does have 606 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,040 Speaker 1: a lot of importance. You might not necessarily believe that. 607 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,839 Speaker 1: You might think of it as simply some sort of stunt. Yeah, 608 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,920 Speaker 1: but going beyond that, I mean, there are First of all, 609 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,880 Speaker 1: this this kind of is a proof of concept of 610 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,000 Speaker 1: something that NASA was talking about in the sixties when 611 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 1: they were thinking about if there were a problem with 612 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,920 Speaker 1: a spacecraft, would it be possible for astronauts to space 613 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: dive back to Earth? Would it would there be any 614 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,279 Speaker 1: way they could do that? Um or is that just 615 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: a you know, outside the realm of our our abilities? 616 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,120 Speaker 1: And they theorized that it would be possible, but they 617 00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 1: were they were never able to test it. Kitten or 618 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 1: jumps were kind of related to that, and a lot 619 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,560 Speaker 1: of the data that they collected during this jomp. There 620 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 1: was stuff that they could put toward developing more safety 621 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 1: features for astronauts as well as space tourists, because whoever 622 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,840 Speaker 1: thought that would become a thing, But now you know, well, UM, 623 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,320 Speaker 1: and there I saw some some people talking about the 624 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 1: Space Shuttle program and of course the the the two 625 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:32,439 Speaker 1: famous disasters. UM. One of the people that has been 626 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: working on this is UM the husband of one of 627 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: the people who perished in the Columbia accident. Um. They 628 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,839 Speaker 1: were too high to have done something like this. They 629 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,320 Speaker 1: were moving, they were too far out from the planet 630 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: when the the accident happened, and and they were moving 631 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,840 Speaker 1: way too fast, something like Mark seventeen. I think I 632 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,200 Speaker 1: remember UM reading it was Dr Jonathan Clark, who was 633 00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:00,719 Speaker 1: a former NASA flight surgeon. His wife, Laurel Um died 634 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 1: in that accident, so uh, you know, he was he 635 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: was involved in the process of of going through the 636 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: safety procedures here. UM. He's dedicated his life to UM 637 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 1: working on safe better safety in space. And UM. Uh 638 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: you know, as far as the Challenger incident, well, it's 639 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,879 Speaker 1: it's sort of unclear, UM, whether they would have been 640 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,239 Speaker 1: able to get out or not. UM. Of course, some 641 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,840 Speaker 1: of the the procedures they developed for the Space Shuttle 642 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,239 Speaker 1: were after that as a result of that accident. So um, 643 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,840 Speaker 1: but you know, in the future or depending on on 644 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: the different kinds of missions that are undertaken, you know, 645 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: either by NASSA or another government space agency, or by 646 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,320 Speaker 1: private enterprise. You know, I think that this information could 647 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,440 Speaker 1: prove useful, um, you know, in an emergency or you know, 648 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,239 Speaker 1: perhaps as a form of space tourism. I don't know well. 649 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 1: And and and just learning learning what the effects are 650 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 1: these the things that that that Felix experience during this 651 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 1: whole jump, I mean everything from breaking the sound barrier 652 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,960 Speaker 1: that no one was really sure what would happen to 653 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: a person. And in fact, to be fair, as of 654 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,000 Speaker 1: the recording of this podcast, we cannot be certain that 655 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,040 Speaker 1: he did break that barrier because the final numbers haven't 656 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,840 Speaker 1: come in. He had a did you see how he 657 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:25,840 Speaker 1: would know if he broke the sound barrier his So 658 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 1: so he has a chess plate or he had a 659 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: chess plate on his on a suit that contained a 660 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:35,239 Speaker 1: lot of different sensors, telemetry, you know, information, GPS, all 661 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:40,440 Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. If the sensors detected that the 662 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,799 Speaker 1: suit had exceeded the speed of sound, it would send 663 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,759 Speaker 1: a ringtone to his helmet. But he said he was 664 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,480 Speaker 1: concentrating so hard on what was going on that he 665 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:56,600 Speaker 1: totally did not He didn't notice anything. So it may 666 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 1: have gone off or it may not have gone off, 667 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 1: and he would he doesn't know because he was you know, 668 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,160 Speaker 1: at that point, I'm kind of just really paying attention 669 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,759 Speaker 1: to what's going on, especially once you know, he came 670 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,560 Speaker 1: out of that spin. So I'm flying here. Yeah, I 671 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: got a lady, I'm flying here. Yeah. But yeah, there 672 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,239 Speaker 1: are there are a lot of There are a lot 673 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,239 Speaker 1: of things that this could help with, including designing new 674 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:26,479 Speaker 1: types of space suits that are effective and are not 675 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 1: as you know, we can always make advances in that 676 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,520 Speaker 1: that realm. We don't want it to be so clunky 677 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,440 Speaker 1: that you can't maneuver around within the confines of a 678 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: space vehicle. But it still has to have the adequate 679 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 1: levels of protection necessary to make to maintain the health 680 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 1: and safety of our astronauts. So that's an important thing 681 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,879 Speaker 1: to to keep in mind too. Granted, I don't think 682 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:55,120 Speaker 1: I don't think most of our space suits will necessarily 683 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:59,239 Speaker 1: have a sponsor logos on them, but they will. Um. 684 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,359 Speaker 1: I was appointed that the the the space suit didn't 685 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:07,640 Speaker 1: have wings. Well it was interesting too to uh to 686 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 1: compare and and you know, I'm going in my head 687 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,040 Speaker 1: here looking at the the suits that they wore in 688 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:18,879 Speaker 1: uh NASA launches from the nineteen sixties and seventies, more 689 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,359 Speaker 1: so much bulkier um than this. Well, I mean they 690 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,280 Speaker 1: were they were intended for different purposes, but I imagine 691 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,880 Speaker 1: the equipment and this newer suit was far more advanced 692 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,680 Speaker 1: than what kitten Ger wore on his jumps. And uh, 693 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,839 Speaker 1: you know that with the technology advances. Uh, you know, 694 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,279 Speaker 1: it's funny. They in a way, they resemble more what 695 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:43,799 Speaker 1: Hollywood um suggest for you know, space fighter pilots than 696 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 1: from what the astronauts the the actual astronauts from from 697 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 1: our own planet um or back in the days when 698 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,360 Speaker 1: that was so common. I look forward to to the 699 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,880 Speaker 1: day when we have space suits for space jumps that 700 00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,279 Speaker 1: are like the ones in the documentary Star Trek, not 701 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 1: the not the original motion picture Star Trek, but the 702 00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:08,400 Speaker 1: the J. J. Abrams documentary Star Trek. The J. J. 703 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:17,080 Speaker 1: Abrams documentary Star Trek colon the lens flare. So, yeah, 704 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: do you have anything else you want to talk about this, 705 00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,759 Speaker 1: this jump in particular. It was a really neat thing 706 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,080 Speaker 1: to watch live and and Twitter was going bonkers as 707 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,759 Speaker 1: this was happening. I saw so many people I know 708 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: tweeting about this, and um uh it just seemed like 709 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,279 Speaker 1: there was an overall sense of excitement and and not 710 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:44,400 Speaker 1: I was not the only terrified person on Earth watching this. Um. 711 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,680 Speaker 1: And you can watch the entire presentation as well. It's 712 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,239 Speaker 1: it's up online so you can go and watch, or 713 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 1: you can watch segments of it if you don't have 714 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,960 Speaker 1: you know, two and a half hours to burn. But uh, 715 00:43:55,360 --> 00:44:00,279 Speaker 1: it's It's definitely something, something amazing. It's one of those 716 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:04,319 Speaker 1: moments in human achievement where you think, wow, it never 717 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 1: would have occurred to me that this is something that 718 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,080 Speaker 1: anyone would want to do, and if they wanted to 719 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,480 Speaker 1: do it, I can't imagine it being possible. And yet 720 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,279 Speaker 1: both of those things happened. Yep, it was. It was 721 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:19,960 Speaker 1: an amazing event, and uh I'm glad it ended so well. Yes, perfect, yep, yep, 722 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 1: it was so many different things could have gone wrong. 723 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm glad of a lot of really smart people worked 724 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,520 Speaker 1: on this to make sure it went off without without 725 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,720 Speaker 1: any major glitches. So my hat is off to you 726 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,040 Speaker 1: and uh, all of the team that was responsible for 727 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,440 Speaker 1: this is pretty phenomenal. So Felix, go put up your 728 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,400 Speaker 1: feet relax um, you know, maybe maybe slow down a 729 00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,319 Speaker 1: little bit for a while. You know you stopping smell 730 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:50,719 Speaker 1: the roses, don't and not a thousand deep. Keep your 731 00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:54,120 Speaker 1: feet on the ground and keep reaching for the start. Right. So, guys, 732 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,919 Speaker 1: if you have any subjects you think we should cover 733 00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,080 Speaker 1: in future episodes of tech Stuff, I highly recommend you 734 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,160 Speaker 1: get in touch with us and let us know, because 735 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,239 Speaker 1: otherwise how would we find out. 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