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Originally Posted by Homeslice
Why wouldn't you? Anytime something causes you to accelerate, you're going to feel it.
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Originally Posted by Trip
hardly any external pressure and basically no friction.
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You wont know you are falling unless you feel the sensation of air across skin or have a visual reference that you are falling. If you jump out of a window you will know you are falling because you see the ground getting closer, you might get a second or two of rushing air but that really it. Jumping out of a plane is similar, but you dont get as good of a sense of distance until you are pretty close to hitting, but you will feel the wind rushing past your skin.
In this case since he was so high up and encased in a space suit he had neither. He would have eventually noticed that he was getting closer to the earth but it would have taken so long, and been such a gradual process that it would be hard to notice.
A good comparison is the zeroG flights, really while it looks like they are flying, they are actually falling inside of a plane which is loosing altitude at the correct angle and speed so as to mimic zero gravity. The people inside the plane without a visual reference or physical cue only know that they are floating, but have no idea how fast they are actually falling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2VLyX80eXs