Felix Baumgartner. Space Jump.

                               Felix Baumgartner

 

Felix Baumgartner was born on April 20, 1969 in Salzburg. It is a skydiver and a BASE jumper. He is known for the particular danger of maneuvers that performed during his career. Baumgartner spent some time in the Austrian military, where he practiced parachuting, including training for landing on small areas. On October 14, 2012, Baumgartner took off from Roswell (New Mexico), to rise to 39 068 m, height from which was made a free fall. This fact attributed three historical records: 1 2 first man to break the barrier of sound, without mechanical support and in free fall. Calculations concluded that the Austrian parachutist broke the sound barrier for the first 40 seconds of fall, arriving at 1173 km/h. Free fall from the highest point, 39.068 meters, when the previous record, established 52 years ago, was 31 333 metres. The manned flight in a balloon to the point farthest from the Earth, surpassing the 40,000 meters of height - being the previous record of 34 668 meters-. The globe, powered by helium, was just 0.02 mm thick walls.   Achievements: 1997:World Champion title for B.A.S.E. jumping in West Virginia, USA. 1999:World record: highest B.A.S.E. jump from a building, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1.479 feet). World record: lowest B.A.S.E. dive from the Christ Statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (95 feet).    2000:Nominated for the NEA Extreme Sports Award in Munich. Category: Special Achievement. 2001:Nominated for the World Sports Award in London, Royal Albert Hall. Category:  Extreme Sports. Nominated for the NEA Extreme Sports Award in Munich. Category: Special Achievement. 2002:Added to the "Street of Champions" in Vienna, Austria. Others honored here are Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Foreman, Pélé and Carl Lewis. 2003:Race Man Vs. Machine: Main Stunt at Taurus World Stunt Awards in Hollywood/USA. Channel Crossing from Dover to Calais: First to cross the english channel in freefall. 2004:Channel of Corinth: B.A.S.E. jump from a 193 feet high bridge in freefall. Mamet Cave in Velebit National Parc, Croatia: B.A.S.E. jump into a 623 feet deep cave. Bridge of the Americas, Panama: B.A.S.E. jump from the 393 feet high Panama bridge. World record: B.A.S.E. jump from the highest bridge in the world, Millau Bridge, France (1.125 feet). 2005:Star guest at the famous Late Night Show with Jay Leno, Los Angeles, USA. 2006:B.A.S.E. jump from the highest building in Latin America, Torre Mayor in Mexico City (738 feet). B.A.S.E. jump from the highest building in Scandinavia, Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden (627 feet). Felix becomes a helicopter pilot at Twin Air Helicopter School, Van Nuys, USA. 2007:B.A.S.E. jump into the second biggest cave in the world, „Seating of the Spirits“, Oman (396 feet). B.A.S.E. jump off the worlds tallest building - 101 Tower, Taipei (1669.95 feet)

horoscopes.

First horoscope. From 'El País': 

-Bad weather will not bitter and do your feelings change. Not have to change your plans. Meteorology is not an important factor that you need to affect your daily routine. You're not any teenager. Out of work, the best plan is a partner and intimate activity. 


Second horoscope. From 'El Mundo':

-MESSAGE. It has more strength and determination than usual, very friendly if you know how to use these qualities in a practical manner in the service of his cherished projects.
WORK. The dominant feature is the desire to do something big and out of the ordinary. He was on the cusp and the power it is firmly installed. The will and the personal effort must give way to the exercise of social skills.
SENTIMENTAL LIFE. Life flows by itself and should not force situations, adapted to the circumstances and be more flexible. Treat his congenital tenacity not make negative and exclusionary, harming the relations of all kinds.Bless you. This sign has a reputation for producing people who are too prone to swell and accumulate a few kilos, perhaps in a night of unrest.

scientific method.

                                      Scientific Method. 

1. Why scientific method is a good way to study nature? Because scientific method has a serie of stages that show us the real thing about the world.
2. What's necessary to do to solving a problem by a scientific method? First, you have to do an observation. It consists on obtein information about the phonomena. Secondly, you have to develop an hypothesis, to explain what you have seen or lived. Then, you have to do a serie of experiments to verify that the hypothesis you told it's true. After this, there is an analysis of results. Finally, we find the conclusion, here you interpreted observed facts according to the experimental data.
3. Think of in a physical phenomena that you like. Aurora borealis, it's a phenomenon in the form of brightness that appears in the night sky, actually in polar areas, but may occur in other parts of the world for short periods of time.
   
   • What steps would you follow to investigate this phenomena? The Aurora Borealis occurs because electrical particles from the sun hit the atmosphere near the poles, producing color bursts. It happens from September to October and from March to April. 
   • What did they think in the ancient world? In the Middle Ages the interpretation given was about major battles in the sky, fighting armies and troops on horseback. Fear and terror, announcements of big disasters.