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To: HAL9000
winds which blow between 7.000 and 12.000 meters.

Sand blasted crispy critter.

2 posted on 08/21/2003 6:53:39 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Nothing in my home is French!)
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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

10 posted on 08/21/2003 7:07:46 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (A Goldwater Republican)
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To: wirestripper
That's got to be altitude, not speed. 7000 meters per second is over 15,000 miles per hour.
16 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)
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