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10/29/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.931-10/29/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Google's Alan Eustace beats Baumgartner's skydiving record
How high would you like to go up in the sky? Being lifted by a helium-filled balloon up to 40 kilometers above the ground, which is 40 times higher than the cruising altitude of commercial flights, is crazy enough for a human. Then how does the person get back to the ground? It’s simple. Just jump off, and the gravity will take the person back home faster than any other transportation, without any carbon footprint. How fast? The speed of the falling object (person) reached over 1,300 kilometers per hour, faster than the speed of sound or a fighter jet. Who challenged such a free fall? One of the executives of the company that maps the world on the ground and from space.
Now are you interested in the venture?
Enjoy reading the article and seeing the video.

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