{"id":9775,"date":"2010-03-16T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/chasing-the-sound-barrier-in-a-leap-from-23-miles\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:17:00","slug":"chasing-the-sound-barrier-in-a-leap-from-23-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/chasing-the-sound-barrier-in-a-leap-from-23-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Sound Barrier, in a Leap From 23 Miles Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/16\/science\/16tier.html?hp'>Chasing the Sound Barrier, in a Leap From 23 Miles Up<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"Felix Baumgartner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.felixbaumgartner.com\/index.php?id=59\" target=\"_blank\">Fearless Felix<\/a>, as his fans call him, has something more difficult on the agenda: jumping from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth. Within about half a minute, he figures, he would be going 690 miles per hour and become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound. After a free fall lasting five and a half minutes, his parachute would open and land him about 23 miles below the balloon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Fearless&rdquo; is right; wow&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>[thanks to Tom M. for the link; more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/90127\/You-Might-As-Well-Jump\" target=\"_blank\"><em>MetaFilter<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chasing the Sound Barrier, in a Leap From 23 Miles Up Fearless Felix, as his fans call him, has something more difficult on the agenda: jumping from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth. Within about half a minute, he figures, he would be going 690 miles per hour and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/chasing-the-sound-barrier-in-a-leap-from-23-miles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chasing the Sound Barrier, in a Leap From 23 Miles Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}