See Amazing Outer Space Jump Before It Happens

by steve casimiro on October 12, 2012 · 2 comments

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If the weather cooperates this Sunday, Austrian Felix Baumgartner will climb into a capsule borne aloft by a giant balloon, ascend 22 miles above the earth’s surface, then jump out to set a new record for the highest freefall. Baumgartner’s Red Bull Stratos project has been delayed multiple times — he was sitting in the capsule on Tuesday when it was aborted because of high winds — and Sunday offers the next weather window. Whether he jumps or not, though, this computer-generated video should be watched. The animation is off-the-hook realistic, the drama of the moment tangible at every turn, the perspectives positively mindblowing. Real is real and come Sunday let’s hope Felix has a safe and successful jump, but in the meantime it’s hard to imagine a more amazing telling of the story than this.

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Len October 12, 2012 at 15:31

Felix Baumgartner is the world’s biggest tease. Jump already.

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Zooertoot October 13, 2012 at 11:11

Check out story of Kittinger, current freefall record holder.
http://www.history.com/news/joe-kittingers-death-defying-leap-from-the-edge-of-space

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