Afraid of heights? Well this guy isn't. Felix Baumgartner just made skydiving out of a plane look like a joke. In case you haven't heard because you don't get service or internet under the rock you live beneath, Felix just jumped out of a balloon 128,100 feet above the ground. Yeah that's over 24 miles. He also broke the world record for the fastest skydiver; reaching a velocity of 833.9 mph, faster than the speed of sound. I guess I have to talk about the physics behind this crazy stunt. If we look at it like we would of last year, neglecting air Resistance, v_f²⁼v_o²+2ax and in this case a is 32 ft/sec² so if there was nor air he would be falling at 2863 ft/sec or 1952 mph or Mach 2.5 and I don't even need to know about impulse or momentum to be able to say for certain that's instant death. Plus if there's no air resistance, there's nothing to slow him down when he opens his parachute .Also it would only take him 89 seconds to fall that distance instead of the 4 minutes and 20 seconds. But since he didn't reach that speed and go splat against the ground, we can assume that there was air resistance on this day. Remembering the equation that we were "taught" in class F=bv and bv_t=mg and since I don't know Felix on that level, I didn't feel comfortable asking he weight so we'll just have to use the average mass of an adult(175lb) to get b at about 4.6 lb/sec(gotta remember convert 833mph to 1223ft/sec). Of course there is error in all this because acceleration due to gravity isn't exactly 32 ft/sec² 24 miles above the earth surface and the force of air resistance increases as he gets close to the earth and the density of air increases but that requires a lot more information then i could find.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19943590