[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Trip

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.

Stupid physics