Re:Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baum...
by logfromblammo on Monday October 27, 2014 @05:27PM
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GP was not only trivializing, but also begging the question.
All you need to solve the technical problem is the solution to that problem. Easy.
The way you are talking, you probably think it's trivial to jump out of an airplane with a parachute. There is a lot more to skydiving than just jumping and deploying a parachute. There is a reason you need to do a lot of jumps before you can jump at high altitude, and this record-breaking jump is even harder than that.
There is a reason people who are knowledgable about skydiving are impressed by this jump (see the comments higher up on the page), and that's because they appreciate the challenges. You are unimpressed because you know very little about these challenges. This is okay if you keep your ignorance to yourself, but embarrassing otherwise.