World Record Set for Highest/fastest Free fall

[nikvoodoo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...-the-jump.html

"So what did you do today, Felix?"

"Not too much. Just floated 24 miles into space, got bored and jumped out of my little pod like a fucking pimp."

"Wow. Sounds pretty routine."

"Yeah, once you've broken the sound barrier in free fall once with nothing but a pressure suit, you've done it a hundred times."

Uh....wait what??!!

If you didn't see this today, click the link. Watch this jump. It's an incredible thing this man and his team accomplished today. Not only surviving Mach 1.24, but regaining control from what could have been a deadly horizontal spin. And some nice poetic justice that the man whom held the record before him was in mission control talking him through the whole thing.

For you forum members who are old enough to have experienced the Apollo missions, I'm envious. This guy didn't even reach outer space and I was glued to the tv. Pretty cool day for the human species and for science.

[turbo]

It was awesome to watch. Had it on my phone the whole time. I couldn't imagine going that fast.

[Leedo2502]

Did you see that his balls landed before he did

[nikvoodoo]

Did you see that his balls landed before he did

I did indeed see that!

[stat]

Thank you for sharing that video. I wasn't aware that was happening a few hours from where I live. I love stories about people pushing the boundaries of human experience. (The New Yorker had an awesome piece in '09 about free diving where people dive really deep without any kind of oxygen. The dives modify their bodies and allow them to do things that you and I could never do. I'd link to it but all you can see on their website is an abstract unless you're a subscriber.)

But my favorite part of the article might be comments, like this one:

Brave man! Congratulations on a wonderful feat and a splendid adventure!

Well done too, to Red Bull for their sponsorship of this lovely happy record-breaking event.

Now please send that capsule to me here in South Africa so that this old woman can sit in it and dream again of her adventurous youth!

Shit. I think I just got inspired.

[Solanine]

Huh I'm sure the record was held by Facebook stock after it went public?