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Pretty sure no one's mentioned this (not sure though), but some crazy fucker named Felix Baumgartner will be skydiving from 120,000 feet today, if the weather cooperates. He hopes to go supersonic during his five minute free-fall. Live video feed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... kJ5ItzEq3M

Proper madness....balls like melons

Goodnight Sweet Prince.

He's not American so he will died...

i take it he wants to break the current record of 988 km/h, and he prolly will too

Will he jump from a weather balloon with one broken glove like the original badass whose name escapes me? If not, what a foghat.

Ryoki wrote:Will he jump from a weather balloon with one broken glove like the original badass whose name escapes me? If not, what a foghat.

Joseph Kittinger - He's actually working with the Red Bull team as a consultant.

Called off on Health and Safety grounds
A 23 mile sky dive called off on health and safety grounds. Fucking lol

Yeah, it sounds stupid until you realize that they probably just want to make sure he doesn't get blown too far off course, which would mean that the cameras on the ground couldn't record the splat.

the guy is a total pussy obviously...

I would have skydived from 23 miles up today but it was windy.

What a pussy, I jumped without a parachute or pressurized suit down a half flight of stairs.

Don Carlos wrote:Called off on Health and Safety grounds
A 23 mile sky dive called off on health and safety grounds. Fucking lol

Thanks Don Carlos

I came straight here to check if he dived and lived

Red Bull Stratos - Today's mission aborted due to gusty winds

A real man.

http://youtu.be/wKRo2OXTDok

http://www.zapiks.com/cam-zink-crash-rampage-2012.html

^ just watching that rustled my jimmies quite substantially

he didn't hurt himself, crazy stuff.

Doombrain wrote:he didn't hurt himself, crazy stuff.

Crazy indeed. He was so lucky.

am I missing something? why the fuck did he bail off the bike at the end?

Probably went too far to land properly (smoothly into the landing) or he tipped backward a bit meaning that when he did land his bike would have gone flying out from under him and his tailbone would have been in 60 pieces. Seems like he's already done the second one, he mentions his tibia has been damaged. Those big jumps are pretty hard to land, you have to line them up just right distance and angle wise. I never got into that kind of shit when I used to ride, I just stuck to downhill and urban joy riding, but a lot of my buddies got pretty into the dirt jumps. Nothing that big obviously, but the same mechanics apply. Sweet video btw. Reminds me of Kranked 4 - Search for the Holy Trail. Lots of good footage from exotic locations in that film.

EDIT: I think he must have just over-shot it. He mentions landing "80 foot to flat" in his video comments.

Kittinger will always be the man. circa 1960 @ 102,800 ft.

Tsakali wrote:am I missing something? why the fuck did he bail off the bike at the end?

he woulda snap the bike in half, and he didn't want parts of it in his ass

You want part of me in your ass.

r u man enough

i've had duhard, so i doubt it

Memphis wrote:

mrd wrote:Probably went too far to land properly

EDIT: I think he must have just over-shot it. He mentions landing "80 foot to flat" in his video comments.

I came down hard from a dodgy jump on a dodgy bike on a dodgy bmx track once so hard, my pedals shattered and that was from barely 5 feet of air. Fuck what he tried. Oh, fuck no.

Well if you got 3 dodgy things going for ya, can't blame ya. I'm sure this guy is riding a $10,000 downhill machine with full body armour. But yeah... fuck that. I once saw a clip of this rider named Bender (old, ~10 years ago) doing a 60 ft drop. I thought that was crazy... it wasn't even a jump. Just a cliff drop into a sand pit. I think he broke his foot or both or his legs or something fucking retarded. He rebounded off the sand and flew headfirst into a tree

Anyway, balls of steel