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Parachutist Michel Fournier ready to make 40km sonic boom freefall through the stratosphere
AFP via Babelfish translation ^
| August 21, 2003
Posted on 08/21/2003 6:49:18 PM PDT by HAL9000
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posted on
08/21/2003 6:49:19 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
winds which blow between 7.000 and 12.000 meters.Sand blasted crispy critter.
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posted on
08/21/2003 6:53:39 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(Nothing in my home is French!)
To: HAL9000
Pre-Darwin Award candidate.
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posted on
08/21/2003 6:54:45 PM PDT
by
fuquadukie
(This tag line available for rent or sale. Cheap. Any typos are a result of publik edukashn.)
To: HAL9000
Eleven months after having had to be solved to defer to 2003 its tests, for lack of favorable weather conditions, this old ordering army, 59 years old, reinstalled since August 11 its headquarters on a site of launching of balloon, located in a lost corner of Saskatchewan, in full center of Canada. How could ya not love Babelfish?
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posted on
08/21/2003 6:56:00 PM PDT
by
strela
("Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures." Horatio Hornblower)
To: HAL9000
French toast...
To: HAL9000
Wonder what it's like to open a parachute at supersonic speeds?
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:01:10 PM PDT
by
templar
To: HAL9000
What's that smell? Smells like --- poached cheese...
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:05:24 PM PDT
by
pabianice
To: strela
The French parachutist Michel Fournier is on the point of trying a jump of 40.000 meters above the large Canadian plains, with the ambition to become the first man to cross the wall of the sound in free fall, indicated Thursday its attached of press. Somewhere, the Air Force must have an "attached of press" who can point out that Capt. (later Col.) Joe Kittenger crossed the "wall of sound" in 1960. Do we need to have the fish translate Kittenger's book into français so this guy can read it? (It'd be a safer pastime than what he's trying.)
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:06:04 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: templar
To: wirestripper
He won't be the first. A US Airforce Officer/researcher parachuted from a baloon at a similar height and went supersonic during the 1950s.
So9
To: Servant of the Nine
Yeah, that rings a bell. Seems I read something about it many years ago.
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:11:20 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(Nothing in my home is French!)
To: HAL9000
Geez, no one beat me to it! If anything goes wrong, Fournier will forever be know as the "French stain on Canada."
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:17:47 PM PDT
by
Tacis
To: pabianice
singed surrender-monkey?
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:19:22 PM PDT
by
wafflehouse
(the hell you say!)
To: HAL9000
To: wirestripper
That's got to be altitude, not speed. 7000 meters per second is over 15,000 miles per hour.
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:26:59 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(20 years in the Navy; never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
To: templar
Wonder what it's like to open a parachute at supersonic speeds? He'd have to slow down a bit, I'd reckon. I guess he's going to try to streamline his fall until he reaches the speed he wants and then spread back out into a normal free fall position to brake. I wonder what it's like to stick your arms out from your body at supersonic speed?
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Just damn.If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:30:56 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: strela
How could ya not love Babelfish?
Throw the cow over the fence some hay.
To: strela
How could ya not love Babelfish?The scary part is that we understood it. Started this, Yoda did.
/john
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