Crazy son of a bitch skydives from space to break world record

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Reminder: Felix Baumgartner plans to leap from just under 23 miles above the Earth's surface today, in what will be the world's highest ever skydive. A helium balloon will carry the Austrian to an altitude of 120,000 feet. If successful, his jump will break both a 52 year sky-diving record and the sound barrier.

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EDIT: the skydive has now been postponed until tomorrow.

Below Baumgartner can be seen preparing for his previous jump, at 71,500 feet on March 15, 2012.

The jump was postponed until later today because of weather conditions, but you can go to the website to keep up with it.

This guy is fucking crazy.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Yeah, saw this on the news this morning. Man's got some serious balls.

 

[PHX]

I just can't see this going completely well for him this just seems too unreal for him to do and not get fucked up in some kind of way.

 

[Andrew]

Been postponed until Thursday I hear, I was going to make a post on it last night.

I stayed up til 4am then found out it got canceled ;(

 

[Rated R Superstar]

I just can't see this going completely well for him this just seems too unreal for him to do and not get fucked up in some kind of way.

Who knows, he could gain super powers from all that radio activity and shit.

 

[TheZig]

Finally he's going to jump, Feels like this has been in preparation forever.

 

[Crippler]

am i weird because i don't give a fuck about him trying to break the sound barrier.

 

[Deezy]

Pretty cool, how is someone going to outdo that?

Jump from the moon?

 

[Kiffy Lube]

If he messes up am I supposed to feel bad for him?

 

[Deezy]

If he messes up am I supposed to feel bad for him?

No you just go look for any video of him fucking up.

 

[Mick Donalds]

I'm no scientist but, won't he pass out from the G forces? I know SoF do HALO and HAHO jumps, but that's not nearly as far as outer freakin' space.

 

[Troy]

Hopefully this actually happens tonight and isn't delayed yet again. It will be an incredible achievement if he can pull it off. This is one of the records that I am very surprised has managed to last for such a long time considering how far technology has come in the past five decades.

 

[Andrew]

Really hoping it's done tonight, I'm watching right now

 

[Schmidty]

It's Jeff Hardy, he is doing a swanton bomb from outer space.

 

[Troy]

They still haven't inflated the balloon because of some breezes around the launch site.

How much money are Red Bull spending on this?