Alan Eustace: I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it
Alan Eustace: Skoczyłem ze stratosfery. Jak tego dokonałem
Alan Eustace leapt to Earth from the edge of the stratosphere wearing only a spacesuit, shattering skydiving records and potentially revolutionizing the commercial space industry. Full bio
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from our backyard
albo z naszego podwórka
in the hour over to the Cape.
space and everything about it,
kosmosu i tego wszystkiego,
by the engineering that went into it.
pod wrażeniem powstałej inżynierii.
from the International Space Station,
Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej,
and you go up and up and up,
of the stratosphere,
and then it starts warming up,
następnie powietrze się ogrzewa,
almost survive without any protection,
właściwie bez żadnej ochrony,
getting colder and colder,
places on our planet.
miejsc na naszej planecie.
who are blazing up at it
the speed of sound,
prędkością dźwięku
ball of fire coming back in,
possible to linger in the stratosphere?
utrzymać się w stratosferze?
the stratosphere?
the stratosphere?
my favorite search engine
ulubionej wyszukiwarki,
to call Taber MacCallum
zadzwoniłem do Tabera MacCalluma
Development Corporation,
we proceeded to do just that.
spróbowaliśmy to zrobić.
at speeds of up to 822 miles an hour.
1300 kilometrów na godzinę.
and 27-second descent.
cztery minuty i 27 sekund.
I opened a parachute and I landed.
otworzyłem spadochron i wylądowałem.
and it's really an engineering talk,
tak naprawdę dotyczy inżynierii.
about that experience
we can build a stratospheric suit,
da się zrobić taki skafander.
that formed the core of the group
którzy stworzą rdzeń grupy,
which I think is important,
co według mnie jest ważne,
the analogy of scuba diving.
that you could ever need.
into the stratosphere.
that was made by ILC Dover.
zrobiony przez firmę ILC Dover.
that made all of the Apollo suits
dla członków misji Apollo
activity suits.
which I am very grateful for.
za co jestem bardzo wdzięczny.
This was all about safety.
ze względów bezpieczeństwa.
and two small children --
and a reserve parachute,
because of an automatic opening device.
otworzy się automatycznie.
can protect me from the cold.
has thermal protection.
that will wrap around my body.
która krąży wokół ciała.
a quarter-inch hole in this suit,
zrobiłaby się półcentymetrowa dziura,
from the low pressure of space.
przed niskim ciśnieniem kosmosu.
is weight and complexity.
są waga i złożoność.
recently to go up in the stratosphere,
które próbowały dotrzeć do stratosfery,
amount of complexity that goes into it,
niesamowicie skomplikowane,
to an altitude of 135,000 feet,
na wysokość 41 tysięcy metrów,
that was 45 to 50 million cubic feet.
1,3 miliona metrów sześciennych.
500 pounds in this system,
ważyłem tylko 250 kilogramów,
that was five times smaller than that,
pięć razy mniejszy balon,
that was dramatically simpler
systemu startowego.
for a much larger balloon.
trzeba zrobić o wiele więcej.
to Roswell, New Mexico, on October 24.
do Roswell w stanie Nowy Meksyk.
that got up in the middle of the night.
wstaliśmy w środku nocy.
that you'll see in a second,
of the actual launch.
to launch balloons,
to land under a parachute,
70 miles away from the place you started.
ponad sto kilometrów od miejsca startu.
and a half pre-breathing.
już jakieś półtorej godziny.
air-conditioned van
van z klimatyzacją,
but I got a front loader.
ja miałem koparkę.
You can see the balloon up there.
with the FAA for 15 miles.
ruch lotniczy na 24 kilometry wokół.
is the emergency cutaway.
awaryjny odcinacz spadochronu.
from using my right hand.
używania mojej prawej ręki.
It's kind of like Google Earth in reverse.
To jak Google Earth na odwrót.
and seven minutes to go up,
dwie godziny i siedem minut,
two hours and seven minutes.
dwie godziny i siedem minut.
very much oxygen.
in the background
because if you look,
and I'm probably at 50,000 feet,
prawdopodobnie na 15 kilometrach,
into a stratospheric wind
w wiatr stratosferyczny,
that I had just gone higher
że właśnie dotarłem wyżej
had ever gone in a balloon,
the curvature of the Earth,
krzywiznę Ziemi,
mentally right now.
I want to be ready.
and stay completely stable.
i bycie stabilnym.
going by, fully inflated at this point.
całkowicie wypełniony balon.
which I'll demonstrate in just a second,
który za chwilę zademonstruję,
going by a second time.
at the speed of sound.
it's the speed of sound,
as fast as I ever get,
szybszy niż kiedykolwiek.
the parachute come out right there.
that there's a parachute out.
was really happy as well.
też była naprawdę szczęśliwa.
is the moment I opened --
kiedy otworzyłem...
Blikkies, my parachute guy.
Blikkies'a, człowieka od spadochronów.
and he actually jumped out
properly called a crash.
lepiej można to nazwać katastrofą.
even close to my worst landing.
ale to moje najgorsze lądowanie.
in that video,
nie zauważyliście na filmie.
of the entire thing was the release
punktów było odczepienie się
something called a drogue parachute,
spadochron hamujący,
was there to stabilize me.
gone tandem skydiving,
na spadochronie w tandemie,
you're in zero gravity.
to just turn right around you.
zaplątać się wokół ciebie.
you can be tangled up or spinning,
możesz się zaplątać, zawirować,
is you're going down at 800 miles an hour,
1300 kilometrów na godzinę
Technologies came up with this idea,
Technologies wpadli na ten pomysł.
and wrap it around,
wokół spadochron hamujący,
it will ever tangle with you.
a very serious potential problem.
without an amazing team of people.
bez świetnej grupy ludzi.
of this whole thing was,
co było w tym najlepsze.
to work with the best experts
and parachute technology
techniki spadochroniarskiej,
and high altitude medicine.
oraz medycyny wysokościowej.
to work with that group of people.
jest praca z taką grupą ludzi.
wanted to thank my friends at Google,
moim przyjaciołom w Google,
in the times that I was away.
gdy mnie nie było.
I wanted to thank, and that's my family.
jednej grupie, mojej rodzinie.
about the safety of technology,
o bezpieczeństwie tej technologii,
that my wife put up with it
after each of the 250 tests,
wracałem niesamowicie szczęśliwy,
to take that away from me.
she and I were in the car,
jechała ze mną samochodem.
and she was sitting there,
"Dad, I've got this idea."
and I said, "Katelyn, that's impossible."
after what you just did,
że coś jest niemożliwe?".
"OK, it's not impossible,
"Dobrze, to nie jest niemożliwe,
and I said, "Katelyn,
it may not even be very, very hard,
może nie bardzo trudne,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alan Eustace - Stratospheric explorerAlan Eustace leapt to Earth from the edge of the stratosphere wearing only a spacesuit, shattering skydiving records and potentially revolutionizing the commercial space industry.
Why you should listen
Two years after Felix Baumgartner jumped from a capsule in the stratosphere for Red Bull, a quiet group led by now-retired Google exec Alan Eustace beat the height record -- without a capsule. (Neither livestreamed nor promoted, the jump record was announced the next day.) In a custom 500-pound spacesuit, Eustace was strapped to a weather balloon, and rose to a height of over 135,000 feet, where he dove to Earth at speeds exceeding 821 mph -- breaking both the sound barrier and previous records for high-altitude jumps.
Leading up to this jump, Eustace and his partners in StratEx had spent years solving a key problem of stratosphere exploration: returning human beings to Earth from the edge of space using minimal life-support systems. In the process, they’ve opened the door to cheaper and safer near-space travel.
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