Felix Baumgartner Space Jump

#1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT1DhcQg0Os

Launch was rescheduled and the mission took place on 14 October 2012 when Baumgartner landed in eastern New Mexico after jumping from a world record 128,097 feet, over 24 miles (39 km). On the basis of provisional data, Baumgartner also set the record for the highest manned balloon flight at 39.045 kilometres (24.261 mi) and fastest speed of free fall at 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph) making him the first human to break the sound barrier outside of a vehicle. Baumgartner was in free fall for 4 minutes, 19 seconds, just 17 seconds shy of his mentor Joseph Kittinger’s 4 minutes, 36 second record from 1960.

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#2

I fell off my dresser once but I didn’t get a medal like this chump.[/SIZE]

#3

That’s pretty badass.

#4

Thanks.[/SIZE]

#5

If I was this man and I could hypothetically see the future and knew for a fact I would survive the fall with no damage, I can guarantee you that would be the funnest 4 minutes of my life.

#6

Oh god, I haven’t laughed so hard in so long - thank YOU!

#7

Great.

Now do it without protective suit, wuss.

#8

And now, they need to jump from even higher :slight_smile:

#9

From the MOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN…

#10

yay some huge corporation pulled a super expensive publicity stunt

#11

-edit-

#12

You know this cat gets endless tail for doing badass shit like this… :smiley:

#13

So they finally went through with this. How did they tackle that stupid right-bragging fucker, whatshisface?

#14

#15

wow

I’m not aware of any scientific progress gained from this, so feel free to enlighten me.
If there isn’t any, I don’t see how this is any more significant than any other new world record. I’m passionately disinterested in world records.

#16

LOL! Glad to see these forums didn’t stray too far from their original mentality after release of BM.

#17

Science has learned that the human body doesn’t explode when travelling 1100+ km/h.

FOR SCIENCE!

#18

I heard NASA is interested in updating their old space suits with something similar to what this guy wore, since it’s more flexible.

Plus the awesome factor of jumping from fucking space! and surviving.

#19

Proof that it’s possible to survive a jump from a near-space height will allow the creation of bailout facilities on any future manned space endeavour.

#20

^but they had that proof with kittinger since the 1960s, baumgartner topped his old record (only) a few kilometers, so scientific achievement is pretty small here…

But with Baumgartner we have now the coolest Austrian since Hitler! /sarcasm

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