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Old 10-15-2012, 03:34 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by Smittie61984 View Post
What I think is cool is that according to the general theory of relativity, a man in space would (where Felix and Kittinger to a degree was) would not feel the rush of free fall until the troposphere with the thicker air.
Kittinger has actually talked about this... He said he was scared out of his fucking mind at first because he didn't know if he was falling or not.
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