July 13, 2006

Michel Fournier is 62 and has big plans. And he'll break the sound barrier while doing it...
posted by kinnakeet 18 years ago
  • why...?
  • I've been interested in this kind of jump since I read about Joe Kittinger. There was some women planning on doing this a couple years ago, and had a website and everything, but I don't remember it ever happening and I've forgotten her name. Anyone know what happened with that?
  • Oh, never mind, it was Cheryl Stearns.
  • So he falls alot. Big deal.
  • Lets see him do this going the other direction.
  • will that make him deaf?
  • How much does it cost to replace a broken sound barrier. They can't be cheap.
  • kit breaks the sound barrier all the time. Awful stuff.
  • I'd do it. It sounds easy.
  • So he falls alot. Big deal. He is the Gravity master, normal people cant fall like that. Normal people would simply stop in midair, or accidentally skip to the bottom without falling, because they are novices. No this man is a Gravity Master! I applaud his ability to fall. P.S. firefox-beta spell check is f-ing awesome.
  • Yeah! I for one would like to know how he does that falling thing. Myself, I keep forgetting to look down so I just keep walking over empty space.
  • The man's sixty-two. SIXTY. TWO. 62 Can't you whippersnappers have some respect? Don't you know how hard it is for an old man to keep from peeing his pajamas? Imagine trying not to pee on your parachute as you're falling a kizillion feet, screaming in fear bravely facing your fate. Perhaps we need to get him the Medic-alert-- Help! I've fallen, and I can't get my parachute up! *parachuting straight into Hell for mockery
  • GramMa, you keep playing the age card. Come on. If the 'shute flies free, the man don't pee. Anyone can see that.
  • I don't want to go parachuting, but that's no different than I was at sixteen or forty-six. Because the falling part is easy, it's the landings put me off.
  • If a man is falling at the speed of sound, can he hear himself pee?
  • No ... unless he's passing kidneystones. ;]
  • Easy as falling out of a balloon.
  • Y'don't peeeeeeee into tha wind Y'don't pull . . the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger . .
  • and you don't mess around with some 62 year old fanatic that wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane
  • But down home they call him "Slim"
  • Baumgartner is on his way up right now.
  • And he jumped! And fell. And went KABOOOoooommm... And glided. And landed. Huzzaahhh!
  • Lego Felix sets his own record in 1:350 scale. That's made me all happy :)