Today Felix Baumgartner jumped from 39 kilometres high and reached the earth saf

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Today Felix Baumgartner jumped from 39 kilometres high and reached the earth safely.

Just considering friction, from how high can a human jump?

I expect that from a certain height, he would have reached a speed so high that he would have burnt when entering dense atmosphere?

Some meteoroids disintegrate when they reach the atmosphere, other don't... so I am not sure what would happen for a 100kg human+spacesuit.
Maybe he could jump from arbitrarily high? (notwithstanding digestion/food/drinks, gravity from other stars/planets, lifespan, cold)

Explanation / Answer

He "only" flew at the maximum speed of 370 m/s or so which is much less than the speed of the meteoroids

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