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This is what filming hypersonic plasma with a gopro from a reentry capsule looks like.

For the true space nerds, here is the 27min uncut version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWxl921rMgM

Watching this somehow makes the whole MOOSE concept [1] of a person falling from orbit seem a lot more reasonable. It wouldn't be pleasant obviously

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE

this is great! i think you could make it as pleasant as a typical rush-hour trip on the city bus: louder and more dangerous, but with less people, and perhaps roughly as comfortable, at least if you have the kind of rush hour where you are frequently in danger of fainting from the heat

Eventually Red Bull is going to sponsor somebody to do this.

No, it's going to be some old, rich tech nerd! (eg Alan Eustace, who broke Felix's balloon record shortly after it was set but without anywhere near as mich fanfare)

The ultimate billionare sport would be basically parachuting from space (MOOSE-style). It would be such a rush. I volunteer Elon for initial testing.

You kidding? I'd pay to try that. Suck it, Baumgartner!

Maaaaaaybe. But we did pull like 20g+ on descent, so that's a bit problematic

you'd have to decelerate several times slower (four gees to be safe, three gees to be gravitron-style 'comfortable'), but that's feasible in an aerodynamic (plasmadynamic?) fashion, even with a relatively low mass-per-unit-area projectile like a person facing forward

Grabbed the wrong link, that's the 5min version.

this is so awesome, thank you

also, congratulations. space is hard, and what you've done is harder than reentry

Looks identical

I wasn't able to respond to any other comment in your history, because pretty much everything you post is dead. You don't seem to respond to the obvious feedback from that, but somebody needs to recommend that you stop making flippant, dismissive, and generally worthless comments, because I've never seen an account as deeply downvoted on HN as yours.

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