Submitted 1 hour ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Was it like a car going 150 mph then suddenly drops to 0 the instantly kicks up to 250 mph?
The “sound barrier” is not a physical barrier, like a wall. You wouldn’t come to a complete stop. It’s just the point at which you’re moving so fast that the air no longer has time to move out of the way, and so it behaves differently.
It would be really rough on your body, to be sure, but not as bad as hitting a magic wall that makes you come to a complete stop.
I watched the excerpts of his video but never really explained why the turning happened for a while then stopped?
How would you control your spin if there’s no air to push against? The ionosphere is so thin, it may as well be hard vacuum. until you made it to some place the air is thick enough to help control your rotation, once you start spinning, you can’t stop.
You should watch the video. He talks about what it was like.
The “sound barrier” is not a physical barrier.
It would be like if a car was going 40mph and accelerated until it “hit” 60mph. Or, if they keep going and they “break the speed limit” nothing actually gets broken. It’s just a phrase that we use to mean “the speed exceeds this amount”
That would kill someone. Twice. I guarantee he did not go 150 -> 0 -> 250.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 25 minutes ago
Felix Baumgartner, fyi.