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Originally Posted by Archren
Trip, I think he does have a point to an extent here. I think initially Felix probably felt that sensation, that shift of the internal organs wanting to stay where they were before he stepped off the platform and began to accelerate. BUT... once that rate of acceleration began, he would cease to feel anything after that initial moment, because then everything is accelerating at the same pace.
 if that is actually what happened, I haven't read statements from Kittinger or Baumgautner on that initial moment where they stepped off the platform. I do know Baumgautner said at the press conferance after this last jump that once he was under way it was hard for him to tell he was falling. |
Please reread all my posts. I have actually already made a statement about initially leaving the balloon.
He would of put more forces on his body by moving laterally and away from the balloon to get off. Those forces are forces that would be greater than just the force of gravity and he would of felt that until he reached just pure free fall.
The water bottle example would just be as close to just a gravity pull as you can get.