Daredevil Sets Sight on a 22-Mile Fall
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/sc...ml?ref=us&_r=0

Felix Baumgartner, a professional daredevil, plans to step off a balloon-borne capsule 22 miles above Earth on Tuesday and plummet for five and a half minutes until opening his parachute a mile above the New Mexico desert.

If all goes as planned, he will do a series of barrel rolls in the near-vacuum of the stratosphere and then plunge headfirst at more than 700 miles per hour, becoming the first sky diver to break the sound barrier.

Re: Daredevil Sets Sight on a 22-Mile Fall
 

What could go wrong?

Re: Daredevil Sets Sight on a 22-Mile Fall
 

jesus

Re: Daredevil Sets Sight on a 22-Mile Fall
 

I'd be scared if I was close to falling 22 metres.

Re: Daredevil Sets Sight on a 22-Mile Fall
 

That'd be an incredible thing to witness, honestly. He'll end up dying though. I don't think the human body is built to break the sound barrier without any sort of vehicle surrounding them... Best of luck to this guy regardless.

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Lets be honest, the only potentially entertaining thing about this is if he hits the ground instead.

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Fucking sweet. This sounds like it will end badly.

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This could end badly.

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He's gonna die.

Will be amazing if he does it though.

Calling it now, his suit violently rips open and he begins to break apart like a shuttle burning up on reentry

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