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Google Boss Breaks Space Jump Record-breaking by Pergrace: 5:38am On Oct 26, 2014 |
One of Google's most senior executive's has broken Felix Baumgartner's record for the highest parachute jump in history. Alan Eustace, 57, a senior vice president of Knowledge at Google, was this morning lifted by a balloon filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium, from an abandoned runway at an airport in New Mexico. A well-known computer scientist, he fell faster than the speed of sound and broke Baumgartner's world altitude record set just two years ago by jumping from 135,000 feet. He returned to earth just 15 minutes after starting his fall. 'It was amazing,' he told the New York Times. 'It was beautiful. 'You could see the darkness of space and you could see the layers of atmosphere, which I had never seen before.' Mr. Eustace cut himself loose from the balloon with the aid of a small explosive device and plummeted toward the earth at a speeds that peaked at more than 800 miles per hour, setting off a small sonic boom heard by observers on the ground. 'It was a wild, wild ride,' he said. 'I hugged on to the equipment module and tucked my legs and I held my heading.' Eustace broke several records, including national record for highest exit altitude; world and national record for free fall under a drogue chute; national record for vertical speed. |
Re: Google Boss Breaks Space Jump Record-breaking by Pergrace: 5:39am On Oct 26, 2014 |
Re: Google Boss Breaks Space Jump Record-breaking by RichDad1(m): 6:47am On Oct 26, 2014 |
What's the importance if this news to the economy of Nigeria, the up coming presidential election in 2015 or eradication of Ebola?
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Re: Google Boss Breaks Space Jump Record-breaking by acenazt: 6:57am On Oct 26, 2014 |
RichDad1:which Ebola again? |
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