misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2008 | news, space, extreme, ?, For, Frenchman, Falling, Down, Is, the, Journey, Michel, Fournier, will, attempt, what, he, has, dubbed, Le, Grand, Saut, Great, Leap, on, Sunday, from, plains, of, northern, Saskatchewan, Canada, spent, two, decades, and, nearly, $20, million, in, a, quest, to, fly, upper, reaches, atmosphere, with, helium, balloon, just, so, can, jump, back, earth, again, Now, says, ready, at, last, Depending, weather, 64, year-old, retired, French, army, officer
Quoted: In the past two weeks, Fournier’s 40-person team has assembled at the launch site, about 90 minutes northwest of Saskatoon. Fournier faces plenty of perils. Above 40,000 feet, there is not enough oxygen to breathe in the frigid air. He could experience a fatal embolism. And just 12 miles up, should his protective systems fail, his blood could begin to boil because of the air pressure
Quoted: If successful, Fournier will fall longer, farther and faster than anyone in history. Along the way, he can accomplish other firsts, by breaking the sound barrier and records that have stood for nearly 50 years.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 02 2007 | environment, books, review, earth, global warming
Quoted: A million years from now, a collection of mysterious artifacts would remain to puzzle whatever alien beings might stumble upon them: bank vaults full of mildewed money; obelisks warning of buried atomic waste in seven long-obsolete human languages, with pictures. The faces on Mount Rushmore might provoke Ozymandian wonder for about 7.2 million more years. ... Weisman stops short of calling for our full green burial, arguing instead for a universal “one child per human mother” policy. It would take until 2100 to dwindle to a global population of 1.6 billion...
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