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10 years ago, Felix Baumgartner skydived from the edge of space. Here is that freefall, set to the music of Daft Punk
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10 years ago, Felix Baumgartner skydived from the edge of space. Here is that freefall, set to the music of Daft Punk
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That was… 10 fucking years ago???
I remember watching that live, takes me back. Can’t believe that was 10 years ago!
For my money though, I’d watch the Boards of Canada version of his jump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk
[Shorter version, set to a different song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl9gzn0W668)
Can someone tell me how come he’s decelerating, rather than accelerating? The airspeed says he’s getting slower the further into his jump…
Now I’m sad about daft punk again
Alan Eustace jumped from a higher height than Baumgartner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace#Stratosphere_jump
A record broken within 2 years by Alan Eustace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WmaZhpd3hI&ab_channel=RodrigoUngo
Edit Thx for the award
The most impressive thing about this man is that he was born 4/20/69
(If you use the month day year format that is)
Edit: corrected the date to month day year because i’m an idiot.
hey bob im lookin at what, uh
jack was talkin about and, uh
Somehow I knew it would be this song. I used to listen to it as my “the airplane is landing” song. Makes for a fun time.
I remember watching it and thinking at some point that it will end nasty. That spinning…
This was 10 years ago? What?
look how flat the earth is !
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/s
Two years later his record was beaten by a beer drinking vice President of engineering from Google
https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2243907-alan-eustace-breaks-felix-baumgartners-world-record-for-highest-jump.amp.html
Holy fuck that was 10 years ago?!
I’m salty of this use of “edge of space” as it was a marketing slogan, not the truth. It was 39 km, and the beginning of “space” is being marked at 80-100 km.
“Oh, you’re famous? What for?”
“I fell reallllly far.”
Outer Wilds experience.
This is one of those flashbulb events for me. I vividly recall watching this on television, sick with the flu, wrapped in a blanket, sipping tea, and trying to hold very still.
I’m always partial to [Boards of Canada](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk)
[Remember when Conan did the shortest free fall off all time?](https://makeagif.com/i/GhZ-6m)
I’m more partial to the guy who [skydived with no parachute and landed in a bigass net. ](https://youtu.be/aPC_h9Vmlxw)
When he jumped out at 25k feet he couldn’t even see the net, and when he was about to hit it he had to flip onto his back and fall blindly for a second. Felix’s jump seems sterile to me in comparison
E: sry guys, here’s the event narrated by the man himself [DAS VIDEO](https://youtu.be/WTTOnvvEpn0)
I was really hoping you used Contact when I clicked on it. Enjoyed your video throughly! Even saw some clips of the decent that I never saw before, nice work.
I remember the heart rate going to 0 a couple times and I’m like oh sht
Record was broken 8 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace
This dude was semi inspirational to me until I found he was a Nazi or Nazi adjacent.
Didn’t he go ultra right wing after the jump? Saying he’d rather have a dictatorship and recommending Orban for a Nobel?