>> I believe Julies Verne wrote a book around the idea of sending people to
>> the Moon by firing them [or rather, some kind of craft containing them]
>> out of a cannon.
>
> Yep, "De la Terre à la Lune"

No, I haven't read it. I just saw something about it on the Internet. ;-)

>> Terminal velocity, anyone?
>
> If you went high enough to get terminal velocity on ground, you went too
> high for a circus.
>
> The trick for a circus is to fly long, not high. Air resistance is good
> for slowing the horizontal speed, and not too high is good for not too
> much vertical speed. A costum like the flying squirrel is a good one for
> human-cannon.

Yeah, that sounds about right...

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