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Felix Baumgartner Prepares for Supersonic Skydive Attempt in New Mexico

Posted by timothy on from the but-what-do-you-do-for-excitement? dept.

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner has tempted fate with quite a few spectacular skydiving feats; now, he is preparing to be the first man to intentionally exceed the speed of sound by jumping from a balloon instead of staying inside a plane or a rocket. The jump is planned for Tuesday over New Mexico. National Geographic lists some of the various (deadly) things that could go wrong.

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  1. Re:NG, what happened to you by c++0xFF · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed, reading this kind of nonsense makes my blood boil.

    Wait, what?