Man... okay well i just registered for this specific forum and i hope that this will catch some1's attention. if not, well atleast its out there for some fun i guess.

Okay, as a project at school, we must come up with travel plans to different planets. as luck would have it, its jupiter. my idea? Skydiving. Creepy right? lol.

a couple of assumptions had to be made in order for me to get to as far as i have, but that should be okay for this kind of project as long as im consistent.

D=(Cd p V^2 A)/2 this, in the event that some of you dont know, is the calculation for drag where Cd=the drag coefficient, p=gas density, v=velocity,and A=frontal area

Heres the story:
your avg. person weighs about 190 pnds (sry im american). My diving suit in this situation is 310 pnds which is equaling an overall weight of 500 pnds(this includes key tracking components, pressure equalizers, etc).
Jupiters gravitational acceleration(Jg) is 69ft/sec. there are roughly 35,000 miles of atmosphere to plow through. with those numbers your going down to any form of land mass at about 126,000mph which is the maximum possible speed without the force of drag.

my problem is figuring out the drag for my suit [8'x4'x2' (another assumption)]. heres another thing, im not aiming to hit the core, if anything i just want to slingshot myself around it. but i want to figure its terminal to see as to how fast i can get it in 300mph winds. its supposed to be the ultimate thrill ride.

a couple of things that may answer some unforseen questions:
A:you are being ejected from space...slowly. it gives the viewer a better glimpse of what he/she is up against.
B:the pod that you were just deployed out of will orbit jupiter within its atmosphere absorbing energy to be harvested and brought back to earth
C:the planets rotation speed, that I calculated, is 27,910.9mph. but i calculated it, not you so you might get something else, im only in algebra2 XD
D: theres a 47% increase in weight.


i can get more info if asked but im not expectin anything, just thought you guys might like to see what i got.

due date: January 6, 2009