On May 28, 10:16*am, "good grief" wrote:
That "realistic" tandem jump was preceded by a jump from orbit.
Actually, if you paid attention to the dialog (albeit brief) the
mining platform was not 'in orbit' but was rather 'in hover'. Thus
the jump was not 'from orbit' and was not subject to re-entry
conditions. Instead it was more akin to Joe Kittinger's jump in 1960
from 102,000 feet in a balloon.
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...cs/q0243.shtml

Boy! that'd be a bitch to "spot"!........ with the DZ moving at 1000 mph
below you and the surface dragging the atmosphere with it. I guess you
could
drop some streamers. ;-)

I wonder how you'd do the "hover" thing? Also, I haven't seen the movie
yet
but WTF could they possibly be mining in open space? Dark matter?

~ tp
Hmmm...don't want to spoil it for you. *The platform is hovering over
Vulcan...and you're in the ballpark with the 'matter'. *They matched
rotation so it was a relative work hover g. *Three jumpers in the
scene and one is wearing red...guess who 'wins' the low pull contest?

Similar to all my buddies ragging on me for shooting video- I liked
freefall RW, just didn't like to touch anyone- just 'hover'.

OK....so if they are not in Vulco-stationary orbit they must be in powered
spaceflight to maintain their position "non-ballistically".

Is the "winner" of the low-pull contest the guy who pulls the lowest or is
it the guy who didn't bounce? *:-)
Anyway......my guess would be....who else but Scotty C. ;-)) * No not THAT
Scotty! (sorry...inside joke)

--TonyP

Never go to a landing party in a red shirt...he pulls lowest...but
doesn't bounce... :-)

I had a 35 second main canopy ride once. AFF first jump student
streamered and I waited until reserve deployment to throwout my pilot
chute...I was in a standing position filming him waaaay above me. I
was open under 1000'. Ooops.