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From: edotto@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Otto)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: U.S. Army skydiving team to jump onto KSC Monday, APRIL 1 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.145439.3313@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 14:54:39 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.173220.26772@news.arc.nasa.gov> <9468@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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>>          some 7,000 feet over America's manned spaceport.

>>               After  freefalling for about one minute,  the Golden Knights
>					     ^^^^^^^^^^
>Will be deader than doornails.  Permissible freefall time from 7,000'
>is about 35 seconds.  That takes you down to 2,000'.  Another 11-12
>seconds takes you to an impact crater :-)

What are you complaining about?  35 seconds IS about one minute...

He's about as accurate as George "Read my lips, then open your wallet" Bush...

(This is not a flame on the original author, BTW - just a political diatribe.)

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