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Red Bull Stratos

October 14th, 2012, 1:01 pm

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If you don't know yet Felix Baumgartner is trying a skydive from 120,000 ft!

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/

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October 14th, 2012, 1:32 pm

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Been watching this for hours now.

Must be a quicker way to get to 120,000 feet........

October 14th, 2012, 1:39 pm

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Past 120,000 Holy shiz.

October 14th, 2012, 1:48 pm

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I've been watching for a while now. I'm really jealous of this guy

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October 14th, 2012, 2:30 pm

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Landed, now the stats... Didn't look like he made the longest free fall mark but he mentioned his visor fogging up so I guessed he pulled the shoot a tad earlier. No big deal IMO it's still nuts to jump from 128,000 ft. It also looked like he was spinning badly at the start before hitting controllable air density.