How A Jump From The Stratosphere Broke The Internet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- What is it like to fall from 130k feet off the ground? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Felix Baumgartner on the 10th anniversary of his free fall from the stratosphere to talk about his experience reaching terminal velocity, base jumping, and other physics.
What is the air resistance like at 130 thousand feet? Learn what it’s like traveling through different layers of the atmosphere and what it feels like to break the speed of sound. What is the difference between skydiving and base jumping? Discover Joe Kittinger and the history of skydiving. What is it like to be the first person to accomplish something? And finally… What makes him do it?
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00:00 - Introduction
4:06 - Base Jumps
06:58 - Air Resistance & Reaching Terminal Velocity
10:30 - Breaking TH-cam
13:40 - Joe Kittinger & The History of Skydiving
22:50 - Taking Risks
24:57 - Standing on Top of the World - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Would you take this jump?
Absolutely..Why Not..🪂🤙
YES!
I would jump from the atmosphere of Mars.
Fastest Man, alive
Yes. Just enough time to come out as someone else on the other end 🙂
High five to Felix 10 years later. For a guy who has been so high, he is really well grounded.
Good sense of humour
lol also hi five for doing the quick conversion on the fly around 9:45 or so Neil asked one I don’t think he was prepared for lol.
Lol you can't gain enough altitude to high five Felix
Hahahahahaha awesome
For international fans of Startalk: 130,000 feet is 39,600 meters or 39.6 km up. That's incredible.
now that is high
I had to do the conversion to KMS to get an idea how high it was.
@Cognitive MGTOW I think you kinda missed the point of my comment.
For comparison, SR-71 Blackbird can only fly up to 85,000 feet. So he jumped 1.5 times higher than that.
However, the edge of space (Karman Line) is defined at 100km, or 330,000 feet. So he jumped about 0.4 of the way of that karman line.
39.624,m*
Felix is one sharp cookie. I've never seen an interview of him or heard him talk before. He's very articulate, respectful, thoughtful, clever, funny and intelligent...
NDT himself didn't have the power to interrupt him as much.
th-cam.com/video/xmxQ5Li-aO8/w-d-xo.html
I still remember watching that jump and being amazed at the achievement. Congratulations on being one of the few to have that amazing view of the world
I’ll never forget this moment in time. I was so frightened when I realized that Felix was out of control and lost consciousness. It was his training that allowed him to recover and regain control to successfully deploy his chute. It’s hard to imagine what it must have felt like to be in near vacuum with virtually zero resistance but still moving faster than the speed of sound. Unreal!!!
I missed the lost consciousness part (couldn’t really understand audio during the fall). I wonder why wouldn’t they talk about it?
@@MoahGentle He NEVER lost consciousness - Baumgartner said that he 'felt like' he was going to pass out. In actuality, he never did.
Thank you Neil for not letting Felix escape the "philosophical" moment of being on top of the world.
I don't know where I was when this jump occurred. I don't know how I missed this. I had never heard of this jump until watching this episode a couple of days ago. When I saw the title "Jump from the Stratosphere" silly me was thinking the Las Vegas Stratosphere not THE Stratosphere. I am so geeked. Since watching this on Friday, I have watched so many videos on this jump. This is crazy and amazing at the same time. Thank you Dr. Neil; you have taught me so much in the time I've been watching!!!
These kinds of talks are so great, more please !
Terrific interview Neil! I can't believe that it's been ten years already! Kudos to Felix on an incredible accomplishment! He is the epitome of what goes up must come down! 👍👍👏👏
I am so glad people still remember Felix, fearless man.
Kudoz for remembering Alan Eustace's higher jump ten days later.
The end was emotional. What an achievement!!
Great, great interview!
I's love to hear more of the technical side of the whole mission. It would be great to have this guest back!.
I remember watching it live and a few times after. Amazing. I'm going to watch it again. Epic interview!
I remember watching the whole thing live. Several very exciting hours that made history.
Great video Neil and Felix! Thanks for making it!
Great segment
One of the most interesting Parts was when the world's greatest astrophysicist said, "I didn't know that" about the meaning of a base jump! Proving, anybody can learn something new everyday! We learn something new from you too everyday Neil, thanks!
The 'world's greatest astrophysicist'?
Too bad he's so misinformed to claim that from the skydiver's jump height of 39 km (24 miles) the earth's curvature still wouldn't be visible to the human eye.
In interviews, Baumgartner has stated that the earth's curvature WAS observable.
Such an interesting interview! I remember watching his jump at a friend's house, we took a break from our poker game to do so. We were all so stressed out, and relieved when he landed!
Also, this is the most visually pleasing Star Talk episode, with the black/cream backgrounds and clothes of Neil and Felix. Details.
Omg! I didn't even notice the backgrounds until reading this. It was very pleasing to the eye.
That is so awesome that you’ve brought this legendary man 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
If anyone can.
Great show!
Felix hasn't aged a day since that jump. I still remember the look on his mother's face as he went up. Admirable feat and an amazing character.
I guess that as a professional sportman (so to speak) he lives a very healthy lifestyle.
Ten years isn't that far
Well he aged 10 years during the jump so he was ahead of time lol....j/k
This was a great discourse between a physicist and an adventurer.
wow this is so amazing and inspiring!! thank you Neil and Felix with this exceptionally awesome video!!
Great interview!!
So good nice interview.
I remeber watching that with my dad. We were taking about physics and aerodynamic.
Great time.
Excellent explainer! Thank you!!
One badass dude ..thank you for the ride Felix !!
Nice interview! It was interesting how Felix said he wasn’t a daredevil but the jump was carefully considered and executed.
Excellent video
Thank you sooooo much for this great insight...superb interview of supersonic man. 😊loved sky diving always .never knew about this " Base jumping" WoW!!!! So much knowledge ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot. Thank you so much.
fantastic interview! Felix seems like a awesome person, what an insane moment in human history and one that I will personally never forget
what a great interview
I was at airshow and high fived and thanked to Felix, very cool and easy guy and big show man. Big respect and good luck to him. Thx Neil for having interview with him.
What a great interview. Loads of respect for both of you. Humans can do anything if they work together. Very inspirational. Thank you Neil.
Star talk always BRILLIANT!!!
Awesome! I would really have liked to hear Felix talk about how he experienced the out-of-control spin though.
I watched this live. Absolutely amazing.
Great talk
Nice to see and hear Felix! Real hero
It's crazy when I think about it but when he first jumped from the balloon and reached the speed of sound there was not much air resistance, so there wasn't any air whooshing sound as he fell thru it. Pretty much silent at first for awhile. That's awesome.
Kudos to both Felix and Joe.
Thank you so much, fascinating discussion
Love this episode!
That dude was crazy for doing that!! I'm surprised he didn't pass out at over 800mph!! Just insane!! Damn. Only use one parachute... unbelievable.
He did pass out. But then he woke up.
@@aking9756 oh. I missed that part I just remember he said he felt like he was going to pass out, but didn't know he actually did.
@@themoviebrotha1033 You are right. He didn't actually pass out. As you say, he said that he felt like he was going to pass out, but never did.
Great episode. Would be perfect if you replay the jump at the end.
Crazy I remember watching this live on TH-cam!
My favorite episode by far, so far...
Wow this was awesome.. Felix seems like such a nice fellow. I wasn't too hyped about the jump but IIRC I did watch it live or part of it at least.
If anyone deserves an "AWESOMENESS!" It's Felix. Thank you. 👍
Between how you describe the atmosphere slowing you and the SciShow episode asking the question if we are fish this pretty much sums it up as we are fish, but we live in a very thinly dispersal of H20 molecules mixed with a remainder of Sol's cosmic gases that passed us on their way out to the bigger gaseous planets that formed in the outer orbital belts of our solar system.
So it appears.
Interesting to think of it this way.
We would suffocate everywhere else in the universe except where we are in the earth’s atmosphere.
Hey Neil! I was at your talk last night at the Sacramento speakers series. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I tried buying your new book but they were sold out. Something that was new knowledge to me is that you are a fountain pen fan. What's your pen/nib/ink? I'm a LAMY 2000/F/Namiki blue. Thanks for a great evening.
Great stuff...Thank you!
THIS!!! is gonna be good. Just hope Chuck is in this one too.
This was cool watching it. Like watching this live.
It's been 10 years, holy cow! It feels like yesterday.
Interesting and fun to listen to! Wow, 10 yrs already!
Awesome stuff
Thanks Much !
I watched this live and it was epic. Like it was really impressive.
Still remeber watching this... Can't believe it was so long ago, what a legend
I enjoyed this video and I learned new!
I can't even begin to fathom , not only the view when he stepped out to the ledge, but the INCREDIBLE amount of courage it took to understand how high he was and still take that step... Because I don't think I could have done it.
It probably helped that he has done it hundreds of times before.
Just not from such height.
But I get where you’re coming from.
@@MoahGentle Well, yeah. I knew that, but still. I can't imagine anybody fully gets used to something like that
Well that is an interesting interview.!
What a great episode
Amazing.neil I love u 💓I learned so much from u.i watch this shows with my son he is 15 he loves it.we sit talk about it all and come out with our own conclusions however ur the man.keep up the amazing will executed shows coming.i call it a show cause u show us. A 7.1 billion thanks from the earthlings
Insane that it has been 10 years already.
Thanks
Great ending. Break the speed of light dude!
A truly amazing guy!
Nice!
It's people like him that are doing Great things.
This show is 🔥.
Some tidbits
@05:50 Yes, the wing suits are steerable but not necessarily you can glide up in updrafts because the total aspect ratio, square of the span b^2 / A area of the wing is very small for human wing suit compare to paragliding parachute. The large sea birds can glide in place in updraft but tiny bids cannot, same principle here. The base jump and sky diving parachute both has low aspect ratio, because the purpose is not fly long distance but land immediately after finish sky diving at same or near place where is jump.
@07:55 Mach 1.0 is Sonic speed, Mach >1.0 is supersonic speed. Bullet speed (depends on cartridge but most bullet) travel at Mach 2.0 to 2.25, so his velocity was less than speed of bullet and close to sonic speed.
What an amazing sight it must of been.... Its sad to think basically all of us will never be able to fully appreciate Earths glory from within a situation like he did..
I can't believe it's been 10 years. As Neil said, it just feels like 3-4 years ago
Amazin. thanks neil and felix
Sir, I really like that bit of art over yout left shoulder. Curious who is the artist.
10TH ANNIVERSARY?! IT FEELS LIKE THAT HAPPENED ONLY 3 YEARS AGO!
Lolol..
Felix is the man!
I watched it so many times❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
I can tell you now, it's never just one host doing a broadcast.
kittinger's book, come up and get me, is so good
There is a saying in sales. It is regarding being well known or the best at something. "It is better to be first, than to be the best. " in other words if your the first to do/make something, it is better for you EVEN if your not the best. If you can be both then you invincible!
Felix is a LEGEND, and I'll never forget this amazing jump! One of the very COOLEST THINGS I have ever witnessed. This man has the proverbial "big ones", in my book!!!
Wow, it was ten years ago? Never would have guessed that :-}
I can't believe it has been 10 years! Wow!
Wow, I didn't realize how great Felix is as an interview
I remember watching that live
I saw it then, years ago. ❤ its so first .awesome 😊 one of my favorit
Wonderful interview. Yes. I would take the jump. I'm a risk taker and this type of jump is a calculated risk.
Hi Algo,
Did he go super-sonic without ever breaking the sound barrier? Since the air was so thin, the sound didn't put up much of a "barrier". Is that correct?
Thanks, Rithm.
Breaking the sound barrier _is_ the very definition of going supersonic (above Mach 1), but yes, that's much less of a barrier when the air is ~100 times thinner than close to sea level.
The fastest man on earth. And without superman sweatpants
Never heard of the second guy. But this guy, watched on the big screen with my dad. Freakin excellent.
Most never heard of “the first guy” either.
Neil.....you missed talking about the crazy out of control flat spins at Mach 1! I watched this live... pretty cool stuff.
He did speak about it...he said there was really no air, Soo there nothing he could do till he got to 90,000 ft where he started to able to control he's free fall...have a blessed day TBEV 🙏🏻
@@willmolina7395 true, I heard that part...but they didn't specifically mention it, or if he blacked out...what effect it had on him...that type of thing...I just thought it would have been interesting to hear more in depth. Cheers.
On the subject of risk takers, I have an example.
I have a Horse who is very calm and trusting, but when she wants to venture from her sleep space out to where she likes to graze, she will walk to the doorway and just stand there looking out. I can't lead her, nor can I push her through the doorway. As much as she indicates wanting to go out, she refuses. I must walk out first, and she'll wait to see if there is anything there to eat me. Only if I'm safe, and haven't been eaten, will she follow.
Man, would have loved Chuck's jokes here! Especially his Arnold impression.
Recommended listen after this... "Sogno di volare" or " dream of flight" by Christopher Tin
11:30ish with captions lmao. “I can finish mascara” lmao