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Skydiving Across the English Channel

loonix_gangsta writes "Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian, has become the first person to skydive 35 km (22 miles) across the English Channel. Wearing a jumpsuit with a large carbon fin strapped to his back he reached speeds of up to 360 km/h. The whole flight took approximately 14 minutes. The newsitem is being covered by the BBC, SkyNews and CNN."

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  1. NEXT UP SYRIA THEN NKOREA WATCH OUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    American girls and American guys will always stand up and salute; Will always recognize when we see ol' glory flying. There's a lot of men dead, so we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our head.

    My daddy served in the army, Where he lost his right eye. But he flew a flag out in our yard 'til the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

    Now this nation that I love has fallen under attack. A mighty sucker punch came flying in from somewhere in the back. Soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye, man we lit up your world like the Fourth of July.

    Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list, and the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist. And the eagle will fly, and there's gonna be Hell, when you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell! It's gonna feel like the whole wide world is raining down

    on you... Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue! Oh, Justice will be served and the battle will rage. This big dog will fight when you

    rattle his cage. You'll be sorry that you messed with the US of A, 'cuz we'll put a boot
    in your ass, it's the American way.

    Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list, and the Statue of Liberty started
    shaking her fist. And the eagle will fly, and there's gonna be Hell, when you hear Mother

    Freedom start ringing her bell! And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down
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    1. Re:NEXT UP SYRIA THEN NKOREA WATCH OUT by fuzzeli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Ah, Jingoism swells in the heart of the Anonymous Coward.

      With apologies to Fozzie Bear.

  2. Mooooooooing over the English Channel. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    < First Post for MooKore! >

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  4. Skydive with the SHAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  5. ENGLAND SI TEH GHEY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  7. Imagine.. by sosume · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [insert obligatory beowulf cluster joke]

  8. in other news by Cally · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    4000 children under the age of 5 died from starvation in the past hour.



    We now return you to your scheduled mental opiates.

    --
    "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
    1. Re:in other news by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's the thing about overpopulation. It's a problem that is it's own cure.

      --
      TODO: Something witty here...
    2. Re:in other news by pdbogen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Damn Atkins diet.

    3. Re:in other news by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      People wouldn't starve if there was a viable infrastructure for the transport of food.

      But that doesn't exsist so there is overpopulation coupled with a lack of advanced farming techniques and so people die.

      It's a shame but it happens, however it's no more newsworthy for /. than the rate of deaths from testicular cancer are on the decline.

  9. Department of... by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    101st-airborne-becoming-jealous

    The 101st isn't airborne in the parachute sense anymore.

    It's the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) which means they fly around in helicopters now.

    The 101st at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, provides forcible entry capability through heliborne 'air assault' operations. Capable of inserting a 4,000 soldier combined arms task force, 150-kilometers into enemy terrain in one lift, and possessing 281 helicopters, including three battalions of Apache attack helicopters.

    The only parachutes really associated with the 101st would be the Parachute Demonstration Team.

    For parachuting in the US military, that's the role of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

  10. SEE HOW ORACLE FAILS IT YET AGAIN!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go here [oracle.com] and see how Oracle can't even maintain their own Search engine on their web site. For even more fun, click the Search link that is provided by the error message! Oracle FAILS IT!!!!!!!! Big TIME! This proves yet again that Oracle is a piece of shit! Boy am I glad that I steered my company away from that turd and onto MySQL.

  11. Re:I'll tell you what's remarkable about this... by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even more surprising was that America hadn't engaged in 'shock and awe' before the invasion; although latest good news from the Pentagon is that France has now been listed as an axis of evil country, thankfully.

    --

    -WolfWithoutAClause

    "Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"