There will be friction coming down ...

Talk about nasty chafing....

First person in space without a rocket.

Maybe he'll get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

After all of what Red has done with Flinters' testicles, I do wonder how his "junk" is still working o_O

(psst! The secret is that it never did in the first place!)

Come on up! The weather is fine! And safe from Red!

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(Technically if something is returning to Earth then it's not actually in orbit).

It can be in orbit before returning to Earth. In fact, everything in orbit is actually falling, just missing the planet constantly. But every tiny particle collision will slowly slow down an orbiting object. That's why satellites and space stations require thrusters so they may be able to compensate for the gradually slowing down effect. Currently our endeavors in space left quite a bit of trash up there, orbiting us. But the trash doesn't have thrusters and might eventually fall towards Earth, re-enter the atmosphere and might be seen as a meteor.

Sooo... Flinters might be in orbit now, but eventually he will be slowed down enough to fall to the surface again. Especially if he is, as stated in sub-orbit, which means his trajectory intersects with the atmosphere or surface of the orbiting object and won't even make one complete orbital revolution.
So basically he jumped very, very high, but will come down again pretty soon.

If you want to split hares. :P

Hah! Good one! :D

gave him some very blue balls I see

Then we should keep him up there. The people on the surface might finally be able to see some blue marbles suspended in space on their own, without having to get up there themself and then looking back at the planet they came from.

*whistles* "That's some serious..well I was gonna say air but, that's really more like orbit..y'know...she could make some serious scratch with that..there's about 3 tons worth of gold components from derelict satellite junk orbiting up there

I remember the late  mavraster telling me how NASA was actually working on a project involving the Shuttle use to use a form of space net to cast out and catch satellite debris and dead satellites and bring the junk back to earth for recycling.

Can't do it today...no shuttles.

And China just recently made more 'pollution' up there targeting a dead satellite and blowing it to pieces, scattering the debris all over the place making more of a risk.

*blinks* "Late? She...ph god, I thought she had taken a break from the fandom...geeze"
And yeah, I heard about the China thing. All the more reason. Red should do it. She can send up. If they bring back some quality scrap. They're spared a replay.
If they bring back crap of nothing at all. They're goin back up

She passed away July 24th 2018. I deeply miss her.

I did a memorial strip for her too.

*Facepalms* SONNOVA, my shitty memory. I remember that piece. I am so sorry! This sleep deprivation is fuckin me over for cognitive thought, hard core

It’s not the first 100,000 feet that matter in a re-entry. It’s those last six inches.

I'd argue it's the last 400,000 feet, depending on velocity.

Hmm reminds me I need to do the battery test on my Taser X26 - pull cartridge and just cycle the stun function for a few seconds

When I worked security back in the '80s, I was the biggest uy in the class so I was 'volunteered' for all the demonstrations. I've been 'stun gunned' so many times, I flinch when I hear the morons at gun shows playing with them. Moe PTSD.

Bet he lands minty fresh.

Perhaps Flinters could set a wallaby speed record during his return to Earth.

Someone you want to bang you got to try asking them. You can be flirty just don't be obnoxious about it.