can a man survive when crossing the sound barrier?”

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	can a man survive when crossing the sound barrier?”

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5-25-2008 11:13 AM

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5-27-2008 11:27 PM

sillysam

Whoops! There went my baloon

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<P>Depending on the weather, Fournier, a 64-year-old retired French army 
officer, will attempt what he is calling Le Grand Saut (The Great Leap) on 
Sunday from the plains of northern Saskatchewan. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/sports/othersports/24jump.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">
<P>He intends to climb into the pressurized gondola of the 650-foot balloon, 
which resembles a giant jellyfish, and make a two-hour journey to 130,000 feet. 
At that altitude, almost 25 miles up, Fournier will see both the blackness of 
space and the curvature of the earth. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/sports/othersports/24jump.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">“It’s not a question of the world records,” Fournier wrote </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/sports/othersports/24jump.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">“What is important are what the results from the jump will bring to the safety 
of the conquest of space. However, the main question that is being asked today 
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