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8 October 2012Last updated at 20:39 ETBy Jonathan AmosScience correspondent, BBC News, Roswell
The Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier unaided by a vehicle.
He is going to jump out of a balloon at more than 120,000ft (36.5km) above Roswell, New Mexico.
In the near vacuum at that altitude, he should accelerate beyond about 690mph (1,110km/h) within 40 seconds.
If all goes well, he will open a parachute near the ground to land softly in the desert, 10 minutes later.
The 43-year-old adventurer - famous for jumping off skyscrapers - is under no illusions about the dangers he faces.
Where he is going, the air pressure is less than 2% of what it is at sea level, and it is impossible to breathe without an oxygen supply.
Others who have tried to break the existing records for the highest, fastest and longest freefalls have lost their lives in the process.
"If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God," says Baumgartner.
"Because if you run out of luck, if you run out of skills, there is nothing left and you have to really hope he is not going to let you down."
Weather permitting, lift-off from Roswell airport should occur about 0700 local time (1300 GMT; 1400BST).
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The absolute mark for the highest skydive is held by retired US Air Force Col Joe Kittinger.
He leapt from a balloon at an altitude of 102,800ft (31.3km) in August 1960.
Now an octogenarian, Kittinger is part of Baumgartner's team and will be the only voice talking to him over the radio during the two-and-a-half hour ascent and the 10-minute descent.
Engineers have done everything possible to limit the risks. They have built the Austrian a special pressurised capsule to carry him under the helium balloon.
He will also be wearing a next-generation, full-pressure suit, an evolution of the orange protective clothing worn by shuttle astronauts on launch.
Although the jump has the appearance of another Baumgartner stunt, his team prefers to stress its high scientific relevance.
The researchers on the Red Bull Stratos project believe it will inform the development of new systems for emergency evacuation from high-performance, high-altitude vehicles. Nasa and its spacecraft manufacturers have asked to be kept informed.
There are a few examples of pilots being ejected in supersonic airflows when their planes broke apart in the sky, but there is no detailed data on what happens to the human body as it goes supersonic and then, as it slows, goes subsonic again.
Baumgartner will be instrumented to acquire this new data.
The concern is that he might be destabilised by shockwaves passing over his body, and that these might throw him into an uncontrolled spin.
"It's very important he gets into a delta position," said Baumgartner's trainer, Luke Aikins. "This is hands at his side and his head low, ripping through the sky. This will be crucial to breaking the speed of sound and remaining stable."
Engineers have incorporated an automatic device in his gear that would deploy a drogue stabilisation chute if he gets into trouble. But the team's medical director, former shuttle flight surgeon Dr Jon Clark, hopes the stiffness of the pressure suit itself will suffice.
"We know that pressure suits limit mobility which we often consider as a bad thing, but in this scenario of going through the sound barrier, it actually adds a protection because it acts like an exoskeleton," he explained.
"We don't know what the human will endure accelerating through the sound barrier in coming back down without the aid of aircraft. And that is really the essence of the scientific goal of this mission."
There is high confidence Baumgartner will succeed in his quest. He has already completed practice jumps from 71,600ft (21.8km) and 97,100ft (29.6km).
The second of these jumps he described as an extraordinary experience.
"It's almost overwhelming," he said. "When you're standing there in a pressure suit, the only thing that you hear is yourself breathing, and you can see the curvature of the Earth; you can see the sky's totally black. It's kind of an awkward view because you've never seen a black sky. And at that moment, you realise you've accomplished something really big."
A suite of high-definition cameras will follow the action. Some of these will be attached to Baumgartner himself.
But wary of broadcasting a tragedy to worldwide TV audiences, the organisers will be putting a 20-second delay on the live video feed.
Four GPS systems in the suit will gather the dive data required to satisfy the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) that records have indeed been broken.
"The data is recorded on an SD microcard in his chest pack," Brian Utley, who will file the official report to the FAI after the jump, told BBC News.
"I insert that card into the equipment. From that moment on, I have control over the equipment. I'm with it until Felix goes into the capsule, and when he lands I am the first person to approach him so I can take possession of that card again."
A BBC/National Geographic documentary is being made about the project and will probably be aired in November.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos
That aint nothing but a maxi dress and heels. What?s special or exciting about that? Am I missing something?
posted by Jenna
October 7, 2012 11:56 am
but who goes shopping in an ?evening gown? though?sighs.. *sings* I want that old Kim back..lol
posted by SHAQ NICHOLE
October 7, 2012 12:33 pm
The dress is ill fitting at the top or she just doesn?t have a good bra on?hanging?
posted by Above Par
October 7, 2012 12:54 pm
Its not really splurging when you got it like that. lol
posted by Adc
October 7, 2012 1:01 pm
But can we talk about the new nose?
posted by Jenny
October 7, 2012 1:14 pm
Ew she isn?t wearing a bra
posted by K
October 7, 2012 1:52 pm
Yes that top part is Not whats Hot in the streets! I dig those shoes tho
posted by AllHam
October 7, 2012 1:57 pm
Could get the same look by safety-pinning a red sheet :/ a bra would probably help though
posted by zalise
October 7, 2012 2:19 pm
This outfit is basic. Everything designer, but clashing and ill-fitting. Why is she wearing a blanket, under the guise of Lanvin though? Preggers?
posted by Jbrizzy
October 7, 2012 2:25 pm
Would you really pay 2000 plus for a look you can get out of sofia vergaras kmart collection for 30 dollars or less?
posted by CaribbeanQueen
October 7, 2012 2:43 pm
She looks like she rolled out of bed with kanye, threw on her heels from the night before, and used the bed sheets as a makeshift dress so she wouldn?t be seen in the same outfit? How can she make Lanvin look so cheap
posted by Black and Olive
October 7, 2012 2:49 pm
It?s nice but I would not pay that much for a piece of cloth
posted by lola
October 7, 2012 3:08 pm
Rihanna and Kim Kardashian need to take a month (or two) vacation from the fashion bomb. Who is with me????
posted by Rotchelle
October 7, 2012 3:33 pm
A bra goes a lonnnnnggg way!! Her boobs or like East and West on a compass! #nobueno
posted by Anon
October 7, 2012 4:22 pm
It is like she is walking around with her bed sheet! Yuk!
posted by Bee.Fly
October 7, 2012 4:25 pm
she is getting slimmer?#checkthat ?.#kanyeworkoutplanisaWINNER
ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2012) ? New research suggests that a mother's high blood pressure during pregnancy may have an effect on her child's thinking skills all the way into old age. The study is published in the October 3, 2012, online issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"High blood pressure and related conditions such as preeclampsia complicate about 10 percent of all pregnancies and can affect a baby's environment in the womb," said study author Katri R?ik?nen, PhD, with the University of Helsinki in Finland. "Our study suggests that even declines in thinking abilities in old age could have originated during the prenatal period when the majority of the development of brain structure and function occurs."
Researchers looked at medical records for the mother's blood pressure in pregnancy for 398 men who were born between 1934 and 1944. The men's thinking abilities were tested at age 20 and then again at an average age of 69. Tests measured language skills, math reasoning and visual and spatial relationships.
The study found that men whose mothers had high blood pressure while pregnant scored 4.36 points lower on thinking ability tests at age 69 compared to men whose mothers did not have high blood pressure. The group also scored lower at the age of 20 and had a greater decline in their scores over the decades than those whose mothers did not have problems with blood pressure. The finding was strongest for math-related reasoning.
The researchers also looked at whether premature birth affected these findings and found no change. Whether the baby's father was a manual laborer or an office worker also did not change the results.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? CBS is off to a rosy start as the 2012-13 season logs its first week.
That network claimed a solid lead in prime-time viewers, took 10 of the top 20 program slots, and had the two highest-rated series premieres.
CBS' new period-piece drama, "Vegas," debuted in sixth place, while its contemporary Sherlock Holmes whodunit, "Elementary," premiered in 10th place, according to Nielsen Co. figures released Tuesday.
ABC's "Last Resort" was the third-highest-premiering series, ranked in 32nd place.
NBC's "Sunday Night Football" was No. 1 in the rankings, but CBS' "NCIS" was second for the week, "NCIS: Los Angeles" was fourth and "Big Bang Theory" was fifth.
Overall for the week, CBS scored 10.69 million viewers (6.8 rating, 11 share), while runner-up ABC had 8.33 million (5.4 rating, 9 share). NBC averaged 8.19 million viewers (5.2 rating, 8 share), Fox had 6.90 million (4,2 rating, 7 share), ION Television had 920,000 (0.6 rating, 1 share) and the CW had 680,000 (0.5 rating, 1 share).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3.54 million viewers (1.9 rating, 3 share). Telemundo had 1.20 million (0.6 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura had 630,000 (0.3 rating, 1 share), Estrella had 230,000 and Azteca had 120,000 (both 0.1 rating, 0 share).
NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts, as it had for the previous 158 weeks. But ABC's "World News" was nipping at its heels, even beating "Nightly News" on Tuesday and Friday. For the week, "World News" was only 42,000 viewers behind "Nightly News" ? the smallest gap since September 2009, when the ABC newscast most recently claimed first place.
Overall, "Nightly News" led with 7.430 million viewers (5.1 household rating, 10 share), while "World News" was close behind with 7.388 million (5.1 rating, 10 share). "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams was off from Wednesday through Friday, with Savannah Guthrie anchoring in his absence. "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer was off Thursday, when George Stephanopoulos substituted, and Friday, when David Muir sat in.
Third-place "CBS Evening News" had 6.15 million viewers (4.2 rating, 9 share).
A ratings point represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 114.7 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of Sept. 24-30, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: Sunday Night Football: NY Giants at Philadelphia, NBC, 22.77 million; "NCIS," CBS, 20.48 million; "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 17.05 million; "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16.74 million; "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.66 million; "Vegas," CBS, 14.85 million; "Modern Family," ABC, 14.44 million; "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.28 million; "Dancing with the Stars," ABC, 14.11 million; "Elementary," CBS, 13.41 million.
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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is owned by CBS Corp.; CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp.; Fox is a unit of News Corp.; NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp.; ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks; TeleFutura is a division of Univision; Azteca America is a wholly owned subsidiary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V.
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