[HAL9000]

Michel Fournier's web site - http://www.legrandsaut.org/site_en/

[Cold Heat]

winds which blow between 7.000 and 12.000 meters.

Sand blasted crispy critter.

[fuquadukie]

Pre-Darwin Award candidate.

[strela]

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?

[The Radical Capitalist]

French toast...

[templar]

Wonder what it's like to open a parachute at supersonic speeds?

[pabianice]

What's that smell? Smells like --- poached cheese...

[Tacis]

Geez, no one beat me to it! If anything goes wrong, Fournier will forever be know as the "French stain on Canada."

[Servant of the Nine]

Following in the Footsteps of Col. Kittinger

So9

[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[b4its2late]

10 to 1 he surrenders first.

[xrp]

Wouldn't this sorta...uhhh, kill him?

Plus, I don't know if I'd want a parachute deploying when I'm going several hundred miles per hour...

[Wilhelm Tell]

This "great jump" one duration envisaged 6 minutes and 25 seconds must enable him to pulverize in same time four records of the world: those of the duration and the free falling speed, the altitude of jump in parachute and the altitude of human flight in balloon.

I hope the records are the only things that get pulverized.

[battousai]

Well he's trying to beat Col. Joseph Kittinger, who came close to supersonic speeds, 714 miles/hour, when he set the record for the fastest speed for man without an aircraft along with the record for the highest jump back in 1960. That was a jump from 102,000 feet ~ 31,000 meters.

more here about this great man:
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/eagles/kittnger.htm

We'll see what happens.

[Ann Archy]

Wasn't this the same name as Tim McVeigh's buddy? Get fried Bozo.

[RansomOttawa]

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.

This guy's going to mess up our nice flat prairies with an ugly crater, isn't he?

[asgardshill]

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.

I love Babelfish. More unintentional comedy there than any of Sheila Jackson-Lee's inane pronouncements.

[Le Bouledogue Britannique]

Seems like a reasonable enough way for a Froggy to commit suicide.

I will watch.

[colorado tanker]

I hope he lands in an area where he can find someone to surrender to.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

making climb out of arrow the total invoice.

And through faster connections most tractors find a meal.