His maximum speed was 833 mph (1,342.8 kph)

Also, Preliminary results of the jump showed Baumgartner spent about 4 minutes and 20 seconds in freefall (a record without a drogue parachute).

all via http://news.discovery.com/spac ... x-baumgartner-121014.html

Holy crap.. Tomba posted it in the other thread at exactly the same time

lol.. I just posted it on funny pics thread and saw it on the previous page... funny gif

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

lol.. I just posted it on funny pics thread and saw it on the previous page... funny gif

Damn, epic slowness by both of us then Thought that it had to have been done already, but couldn't see it. d'oh

Cause RacerXNZ burried it with his 35 images..

Meanwhile in America, Land of the informed...........

Quote from Racer X NZ :

Meanwhile in America, Land of the informed...........

http://i.imgur.com/59rw6.jpg

That's not the first time the American mass media has made that boner:

LOL thats american mass media for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkaGmNRLIy0

Mslsd is a democratic channel, enough said.

Fair enough, although considering the sadly ignorant mass of Americans I can't help thinking that it may not just be a democrat issue.

Just look at Romneys inability to remember what he says from day to day.

I had a look at your SAT scores over the last 20 years ( a sadly decreasing curve ) and the only minor improvement came when you dumbed them down.

Yet you feel this superiority over others, especially if they aren't white, and don't come from the US of A.

Que Team America theme !

Oh well, guess its time for Jersey Shore, or other informative programming.

George was far too kind to you.

"Sometimes you have to get really high" - Felix Baumgartner

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

"Sometimes you have to get really high" - Felix Baumgartner

That's not the full quote.

"Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are." - Felix Baumgartner

Well, you can get very high to feel that way too.

chuckle......

'bum-gardener'

Video from the suit

I don't have a fear of heights, but hell there is something scary about jumping from that high up. At the same time, looks f'in awesome.

Not meant any disrespect to this incredible man....... but, this is one of my favorites :

Quote from troy :

http://youtu.be/snwKR9SzVjI second try, red bull pulled the first one in no time for whatever reason, after all it was broadcasted on youtube...

Why did you removed it. Lawsuit?

CETA

For some reason I'm having an issue with the link but google that over the last week.

USA n Canada, bit like megadownload here, welcome to copyright.

What's really funny was micrfloppy trying to take down bing for copyright infringements, Russian roulette within a corp......

The space dive documentation is now on the iplayer for anyone interested

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/b ... isode/b01nts6t/Space_Dive

So apparently they just released the Go Pro footage from the jump and it's absolutely terrifying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYw4meRWGd4

Quote from Rappa Z :

So apparently they just released the Go Pro footage from the jump and it's absolutely terrifying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYw4meRWGd4

It's not, it's amazing!