How A Jump From The Stratosphere Broke The Internet

[@StarTalk]

Would you take this jump?

[@tko2218]

Absolutely..Why Not..🪂🤙

[@patytrico]

YES!

[@jimmytimmy3680]

I would jump from the atmosphere of Mars.

[@williamckama8470]

Fastest Man, alive

[@MarijanDjima]

Yes. Just enough time to come out as someone else on the other end 🙂

[@PlataxJazz]

High five to Felix 10 years later. For a guy who has been so high, he is really well grounded.

[@Yvecampell]

Good sense of humour

[@nugboy420]

lol also hi five for doing the quick conversion on the fly around 9:45 or so Neil asked one I don’t think he was prepared for lol.

[@cleverusername9369]

Lol you can't gain enough altitude to high five Felix

[@michaelbonnen9791]

Hahahahahaha awesome

[@F_L_U_X]

Felix is one sharp cookie. I've never seen an interview of him or heard him talk before. He's very articulate, respectful, thoughtful, clever, funny and intelligent...

[@matrixman7225]

NDT himself didn't have the power to interrupt him as much.

[@sharc811]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp7bgmiCnpKUhZo

[@philipberthiaume2314]

For international fans of Startalk: 130,000 feet is 39,600 meters or 39.6 km up. That's incredible.

[@eduardovalencia2197]

now that is high

[@UziPeters]

I had to do the conversion to KMS to get an idea how high it was.

[@philipberthiaume2314]

@Cognitive MGTOW I think you kinda missed the point of my comment.

[@xdragon2k]

For comparison, SR-71 Blackbird can only fly up to 85,000 feet. So he jumped 1.5 times higher than that. However, the edge of space (Karman Line) is defined at 100km, or 330,000 feet. So he jumped about 0.4 of the way of that karman line.

[@SB4F]

39.624,m*

[@SilentRacer911]

I still remember watching that jump and being amazed at the achievement. Congratulations on being one of the few to have that amazing view of the world

[@R4vencl4w]

I Love the Moment whem Felix saluted "I'm comming *home now*! This dude has balls of steel.

[@willj3ff]

I’ll never forget this moment in time. I was so frightened when I realized that Felix was out of control and lost consciousness. It was his training that allowed him to recover and regain control to successfully deploy his chute. It’s hard to imagine what it must have felt like to be in near vacuum with virtually zero resistance but still moving faster than the speed of sound. Unreal!!!

[@MoahGentle]

I missed the lost consciousness part (couldn’t really understand audio during the fall). I wonder why wouldn’t they talk about it?

[@sailorman8668]

@@MoahGentle He NEVER lost consciousness - Baumgartner said that he 'felt like' he was going to pass out. In actuality, he never did.

[@ramonortiz7462]

That's probably when he seen the curvature of the earth,, unconscious!!

[@pouljensen2789]

Awesome! I would really have liked to hear Felix talk about how he experienced the out-of-control spin though.

[@VRonkiej]

I don't know where I was when this jump occurred. I don't know how I missed this. I had never heard of this jump until watching this episode a couple of days ago. When I saw the title "Jump from the Stratosphere" silly me was thinking the Las Vegas Stratosphere not THE Stratosphere. I am so geeked. Since watching this on Friday, I have watched so many videos on this jump. This is crazy and amazing at the same time. Thank you Dr. Neil; you have taught me so much in the time I've been watching!!!

[@welern2liv815]

Thank you Neil for not letting Felix escape the "philosophical" moment of being on top of the world.

[@10VAHE]

These kinds of talks are so great, more please !

[@sapelesteve]

Terrific interview Neil! I can't believe that it's been ten years already! Kudos to Felix on an incredible accomplishment! He is the epitome of what goes up must come down! 👍👍👏👏

[@MarwanMahdy]

I am so glad people still remember Felix, fearless man.

[@johnyepthomi892]

The end was emotional. What an achievement!!

[@m6h3r]

I remember watching it live and a few times after. Amazing. I'm going to watch it again. Epic interview!

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

One of the most interesting Parts was when the world's greatest astrophysicist said, "I didn't know that" about the meaning of a base jump! Proving, anybody can learn something new everyday! We learn something new from you too everyday Neil, thanks!

[@sailorman8668]

The 'world's greatest astrophysicist'? Too bad he's so misinformed to claim that from the skydiver's jump height of 39 km (24 miles) the earth's curvature still wouldn't be visible to the human eye. In interviews, Baumgartner has stated that the earth's curvature WAS observable.

[@shajanjacob5849]

Who proved that its not observable? ​@@sailorman8668

[@Msvalexvalex]

Such an interesting interview! I remember watching his jump at a friend's house, we took a break from our poker game to do so. We were all so stressed out, and relieved when he landed! Also, this is the most visually pleasing Star Talk episode, with the black/cream backgrounds and clothes of Neil and Felix. Details.

[@crob18]

Omg! I didn't even notice the backgrounds until reading this. It was very pleasing to the eye.

[@chucktaylor4958]

This was a great discourse between a physicist and an adventurer.

[@iwannaseenow1]

Great, great interview! I's love to hear more of the technical side of the whole mission. It would be great to have this guest back!.

[@larryo6874]

Nice interview! It was interesting how Felix said he wasn’t a daredevil but the jump was carefully considered and executed.

[@slcncr]

I remember watching the whole thing live. Several very exciting hours that made history.

[@righty-o3585]

I can't even begin to fathom , not only the view when he stepped out to the ledge, but the INCREDIBLE amount of courage it took to understand how high he was and still take that step... Because I don't think I could have done it.

[@MoahGentle]

It probably helped that he has done it hundreds of times before. Just not from such height. But I get where you’re coming from.

[@righty-o3585]

@@MoahGentle Well, yeah. I knew that, but still. I can't imagine anybody fully gets used to something like that

[@Sludgeman4life]

The only way home was to jump

[@FumikoNobuoka]

Felix hasn't aged a day since that jump. I still remember the look on his mother's face as he went up. Admirable feat and an amazing character.

[@MoahGentle]

I guess that as a professional sportman (so to speak) he lives a very healthy lifestyle.

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

Ten years isn't that far

[@kevyjo]

Well he aged 10 years during the jump so he was ahead of time lol....j/k

[@lemonberries]

fantastic interview! Felix seems like a awesome person, what an insane moment in human history and one that I will personally never forget

[@britishshock]

I remeber watching that with my dad. We were taking about physics and aerodynamic. Great time.

[@clhagy]

Great video Neil and Felix! Thanks for making it!

[@larrymanning5925]

It's crazy when I think about it but when he first jumped from the balloon and reached the speed of sound there was not much air resistance, so there wasn't any air whooshing sound as he fell thru it. Pretty much silent at first for awhile. That's awesome.

[@themoviebrotha1033]

That dude was crazy for doing that!! I'm surprised he didn't pass out at over 800mph!! Just insane!! Damn. Only use one parachute... unbelievable.

[@aking9756]

He did pass out. But then he woke up.

[@themoviebrotha1033]

@@aking9756 oh. I missed that part I just remember he said he felt like he was going to pass out, but didn't know he actually did.

[@sailorman8668]

@@themoviebrotha1033 You are right. He didn't actually pass out. As you say, he said that he felt like he was going to pass out, but never did.

[@rickhay9782]

One badass dude ..thank you for the ride Felix !!

[@davca333]

I was at airshow and high fived and thanked to Felix, very cool and easy guy and big show man. Big respect and good luck to him. Thx Neil for having interview with him.

[@MadDragon75]

Between how you describe the atmosphere slowing you and the SciShow episode asking the question if we are fish this pretty much sums it up as we are fish, but we live in a very thinly dispersal of H20 molecules mixed with a remainder of Sol's cosmic gases that passed us on their way out to the bigger gaseous planets that formed in the outer orbital belts of our solar system. So it appears.

[@MoahGentle]

Interesting to think of it this way. We would suffocate everywhere else in the universe except where we are in the earth’s atmosphere.

[@zyxwvut4740]

Kudoz for remembering Alan Eustace's higher jump ten days later.

[@askarielad]

That is so awesome that you’ve brought this legendary man 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@MrKasa1989]

If anyone can.

[@samsignorelli]

Felix got Nick Pinantaneda's jumps confused. He descended safely with his gondola on the attempt where he couldn't disconnect his O2 hose. It was on his NEXT attempt that he lost suit pressure and eventually died. He had a BAD habit of momentarily opening his helmet visor to release some pressure because his helmet ring kept coming up. There's a theory that he did so around 50,000 ft on his last jump and could not get the visor closed and sealed fast enough.

[@MoahGentle]

Interesting. Now I gotta research this.

[@samsignorelli]

@@MoahGentle The sad thing is if he'd had a wrench to get the O2 hose undone o the previous attempt he would've lived. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida

[@mattyktatermattyktater796]

Hey Neil! I was at your talk last night at the Sacramento speakers series. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I tried buying your new book but they were sold out. Something that was new knowledge to me is that you are a fountain pen fan. What's your pen/nib/ink? I'm a LAMY 2000/F/Namiki blue. Thanks for a great evening.

[@JJs_playground]

It's been 10 years, holy cow! It feels like yesterday.

[@mrmileskp]

THIS!!! is gonna be good. Just hope Chuck is in this one too.

[@nikhatriazrasool]

Thank you sooooo much for this great insight...superb interview of supersonic man. 😊loved sky diving always .never knew about this " Base jumping" WoW!!!! So much knowledge ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot. Thank you so much.

[@madb132]

If anyone deserves an "AWESOMENESS!" It's Felix. Thank you. 👍

[@diegofernandez4789]

Great episode. Would be perfect if you replay the jump at the end.

[@SpyroTek]

Reminds me of the only thing I’ve known Neil to get wrong. He said in a talk that at the height Felix got to you wouldn’t see the curvature of the earth.

[@EBDavis111]

That's out of context. He's was talking about looking down and seeing the ground bulge up to you like it looks in fish eye lens. He wasn't talking about whether you could see the horizon curving from a tangent.

[@EBDavis111]

@Bob No, he remains a scientist, not an actor. But please, provide an example.

[@SpyroTek]

@@EBDavis111 It's been a long time since I watched the video so I'll take your word for it. I'm not going back to dig it up or anything as I like Neil and I'm not trying to discredit him or anything. Just an observation really. To have hours upon hours of talks and I've only ever heard 1 thing I disagree on is quite an achievement.

[@baishihua]

@Bob are you referring to the transgender sport he was talking about?

[@astrophysicistguy]

@Bob he said 3 times in this episode about airplanes flying at 130,000 ft which is impossible

[@Ascension-3]

Great segment

[@08mario08]

Crazy I remember watching this live on KZbin!

[@SneezingEagle]

Still remeber watching this... Can't believe it was so long ago, what a legend

[@PaletteBegonia]

What an amazing sight it must of been.... Its sad to think basically all of us will never be able to fully appreciate Earths glory from within a situation like he did..

[@Ranveer_Singh_sangha03]

Done Skydiving many times but space jump is something beautiful Love to have that kind of experience once at least 😌 please WAHEGURU make my wish true

[@fromnorway643]

This wasn't a space jump, but a *_strato jump._*

[@jeremyjarvis8100]

It's people like him that are doing Great things.

[@J.D.Blackburn-ds5de]

My favorite episode by far, so far...

[@JithinJacob333]

I can't believe it's been 10 years. As Neil said, it just feels like 3-4 years ago

[@chobiig7897]

wow this is so amazing and inspiring!! thank you Neil and Felix with this exceptionally awesome video!!

[@leftcoaster67]

Kudos to both Felix and Joe.

[@markerwin9167]

Excellent video

[@jacquelamontharenberg]

What a great interview. Loads of respect for both of you. Humans can do anything if they work together. Very inspirational. Thank you Neil.

[@jeffs6090]

But happened to the balloon and capsule? How much higher did that go? Where did it end up? How long did it take to get back to the ground, or did it go into orbit?

[@Svensk7119]

Eventually, they returned to Earth. The balloon would have Eventually popped, if they didn't set it up to release its own helium. It wasn't high enough, or fast enough to go into orbit.

[@thejoshbtv]

Insane that it has been 10 years already.

[@DannerBanks]

what a great interview

[@tigertolliver5199]

Star talk always BRILLIANT!!!

[@bballanalytics1552]

Great ending. Break the speed of light dude!

[@stevestarr9769]

I watched this live. Absolutely amazing.

[@F_L_U_X]

10TH ANNIVERSARY?! IT FEELS LIKE THAT HAPPENED ONLY 3 YEARS AGO!

[@gabrielsatter]

Lolol..

[@TheMsPetal]

Excellent explainer! Thank you!!

[@North_Lights]

Some tidbits @05:50 Yes, the wing suits are steerable but not necessarily you can glide up in updrafts because the total aspect ratio, square of the span b^2 / A area of the wing is very small for human wing suit compare to paragliding parachute. The large sea birds can glide in place in updraft but tiny bids cannot, same principle here. The base jump and sky diving parachute both has low aspect ratio, because the purpose is not fly long distance but land immediately after finish sky diving at same or near place where is jump. @07:55 Mach 1.0 is Sonic speed, Mach >1.0 is supersonic speed. Bullet speed (depends on cartridge but most bullet) travel at Mach 2.0 to 2.25, so his velocity was less than speed of bullet and close to sonic speed.

[@tbev3363]

Neil.....you missed talking about the crazy out of control flat spins at Mach 1! I watched this live... pretty cool stuff.

[@willmolina7395]

He did speak about it...he said there was really no air, Soo there nothing he could do till he got to 90,000 ft where he started to able to control he's free fall...have a blessed day TBEV 🙏🏻

[@tbev3363]

@@willmolina7395 true, I heard that part...but they didn't specifically mention it, or if he blacked out...what effect it had on him...that type of thing...I just thought it would have been interesting to hear more in depth. Cheers.

[@simplyblesd]

What a great episode

[@OlgaG5155]

Nice to see and hear Felix! Real hero

[@Galactis1]

I watched this live and it was epic. Like it was really impressive.

[@milesalton4003]

You get a quick glimpse of a completely flat horizon during the video. Shout out to the editor who left a little Easter egg in the video letting us know it's a fish eye lense and they've easily lied to us for 500 years.

[@wrenengels7435]

The use of a fisheye lens doesn't change the fact the Earth is a spherical planet.

[@fromnorway643]

How do you tell when the fisheye lens is lying and when it's not?

[@milesalton4003]

@fromnorway643 usually when there's extreme curve even below commercial airline altitude or when there's amature footage from an air balloon of a completely flat horizon wayyyy higher above the pictures were showed of a curved earth.

[@wrenengels7435]

@@milesalton4003 here are a few examples of the Earth's spherical shape without a fisheye effect 🔍 Turksat Deployment 🔍 Japan Lunar Orbiter 🔍 Himawari Weather Satellites And btw the globe model was introduced by Greek scholars during the 3rd century BC

[@fromnorway643]

@@milesalton4003 The apparent curvature shown by a fisheye lens will be close to the _real_ one if the horizon passes near the _centre_ of the frame, as demonstrated by this image from the Wiki article about fisheye lenses: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheye_lens#/media/File:Vlg_shop.jpg _dazzathecameraman_ used this to show the real curvature from high altitude balloons here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4uag2xjZpqNqdk BTW, that footage happens to be above the region of Norway called Trøndelag.

[@phizicks]

I can tell you now, it's never just one host doing a broadcast.

[@LEDewey_MD]

Great interview!!

[@Steaphany]

On the subject of risk takers, I have an example. I have a Horse who is very calm and trusting, but when she wants to venture from her sleep space out to where she likes to graze, she will walk to the doorway and just stand there looking out. I can't lead her, nor can I push her through the doorway. As much as she indicates wanting to go out, she refuses. I must walk out first, and she'll wait to see if there is anything there to eat me. Only if I'm safe, and haven't been eaten, will she follow.

[@ronconroy8104]

What happened to the balloon and capsule? Did it eventually drop back to earth or is it still up there?

[@bunnykiller]

it continued to rise until the balloon broke and then came down on its own parachute...

[@pelado9293]

It can't stay there because it keeps going up.

[@theduckfromthejoke152]

They aren't going to focus on the most important part when he started spinning almost out of control and everyone thought it was out of control and he leveled himself out it was amazing

[@akse]

Wow this was awesome.. Felix seems like such a nice fellow. I wasn't too hyped about the jump but IIRC I did watch it live or part of it at least.

[@philthedev]

kittinger's book, come up and get me, is so good

[@Rendall81]

So good nice interview.

[@paulesterline5714]

There is a saying in sales. It is regarding being well known or the best at something. "It is better to be first, than to be the best. " in other words if your the first to do/make something, it is better for you EVEN if your not the best. If you can be both then you invincible!

[@Life_42]

About to hit 2 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!

[@jimday666]

@2:02 of course someone was higher than him: Alan Eustace broke Felix's record 2 years later in 2014 at 135 000 feet. Self funded also in a balloon and space suit, but almost nobody talks about it because he didn't had any big shot sponsors.

[@fromnorway643]

He set a new altitude record, but he didn’t break Felix’ speed record since he used a small stabilizing parachute.

[@jimday666]

@@fromnorway643 correct

[@bez750]

Absolutely right

[@SnoBear626]

I have a framed photo if Joe Kittenger when he did his jump from 102,000' in 1960. Most people never even heard of his jump. Joe was actually doing research for space re-entry. The photo is from Nat Geo.

[@fromnorway643]

Jo Kittinger passed away less than two months after this video was posted, at age 94.

[@mikemclenison8200]

Interesting and fun to listen to! Wow, 10 yrs already!

[@JohnSmith-gb5vg]

Never heard of the second guy. But this guy, watched on the big screen with my dad. Freakin excellent.

[@MoahGentle]

Most never heard of “the first guy” either.

[@jeffsiegwart]

Great show!

[@Monarch15w]

This was cool watching it. Like watching this live.

[@kevinmcdonough9097]

Find your stratosphere. Build a team. Make a plan. Jump, that others may follow.

[@iroquois46]

I never asked is he gonna die. I just was tooo excited. I don't even know him but i cried with excitement when he landed. Just watching this makes me cry my lashes off😂❤

[@marinagadaborshev7427]

Sir, I really like that bit of art over yout left shoulder. Curious who is the artist.

[@theduckfromthejoke152]

Oh my gosh Neil we celebrate ardell Schmednik day instead of Columbus Day because of what you said on Rogan! I'm so happy you brought him up?

[@malinkifox2011]

I like this guy more now, he’s pretty humble

[@mikeguadalupe]

Yes. If you have the ability and the tech to go to the edge of space, jump, and land without dying do it.

[@fromnorway643]

He was 61 km below the Kármán line, which is the most recognized "edge of space".

[@mags102755]

I am wondering about G Forces as he re-entered a thicker atmosphere. Dr. Neil, can you answer?

[@yourguard4]

Felix was in free fall for ~4 minutes and reached maximum speed after ~1 minute. If we assume the worst case ( 900 mph to 0 mph within 3 minutes), it would result in an average deceleration of ~2.2 m/s² or 0.23 G. Seems like something not to worry about ;)

[@bunnykiller]

should have been pretty much just 1 G of interaction since the slowing was gradual, altho, when the parachute was deployed and when he went from terminal velocity to "full canopy" he most likely experienced 2-3 Gs for a couple of seconds.

[@Mikehowarth1988]

G force decreases with altitude so as he got lower he had a little More g force and atmosphere which allowed him to measure and control his parachute pull at the correct height and g force.

[@fromnorway643]

@@Mikehowarth1988 The Earth's gravity is only 1.2 % weaker at 39 km altitude, so that wasn't really a factor to worry about.

[@ra2186]

03:19 We don't see planes at that altitude because no plane has ever flown at 130,000 feet. I think he was thinking 30,000 but since they were talking about 130,000 he slipped. Only the X-15, which didn't take off under it's own power and thus excludes it, has ever flown above 124,000 feet.

[@Wannabe-Pro]

Man, would have loved Chuck's jokes here! Especially his Arnold impression.

[@tonybazz53]

I totally identify with his comment on always being interested in the birds veiw. So in my fifties I took up skydiving at my local jump site and dabbled for ten years or so. I had never heard about the truck drivers story.

[@nugboy420]

11:30ish with captions lmao. “I can finish mascara” lmao

[@bidyo1365]

I enjoyed this video and I learned new!

[@hamadaj8081]

funny how i can still get as high as felix, but still be sitting on my couch watching startalk

[@pimekahsamobabou6263]

I bet everyone, like me, saw the video once more!!! Haha. Please tell about the whereabouts of the capsule, thank you, love and respect.

[@elessartelcontar9415]

Felix nearly died several times in this jump. Knocked unconscious for part of the fall. He broke the sound barrier with his body!! In a flat spin that could have killed him. He's skilled, brave and damned lucky! 🍀

[@JustMePatrick]

I can't believe it has been 10 years! Wow!

[@khrisbmusic6091]

This show is 🔥.

[@abhisax]

Just to put this into perspective, an airplane attains a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet (~12km) and this dude jumped from more than 3 times of that... 130,000 feet (~40km) which is almost 10% altitude of International Space Station.