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Old 23-04-2012, 05:02 PM   #1
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Default Joe Kittinger - Worlds Tallest Step

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Old 23-04-2012, 05:24 PM   #2
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Old 23-04-2012, 05:30 PM   #3
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****... balls of steel!
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Old 23-04-2012, 05:32 PM   #4
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Bit of background info would be good..My goodness...feel like I have been living in a darkroom lately...Hopefully work will die down soon and I can go back to playing on the internet for hours.
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Old 23-04-2012, 07:48 PM   #5
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Can see the edge of Earth's atmosphere and the curvature. I wonder if his balls of steel heated up on re-entry.
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Old 23-04-2012, 11:05 PM   #6
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Old 23-04-2012, 11:13 PM   #7
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Ok. So he did the worlds highest skydive and did experiments with an open air Gondola helium balloon.

People really need to put more information on threads for those of us who are not aware who these people are.

I do agree that he a remarkable man and has led a remarkable life...

Here is wikipedia's page on him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger

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Old 24-04-2012, 05:57 AM   #8
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Check these out too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UEYxf4fl_A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...ture=endscreen
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Old 24-04-2012, 08:39 AM   #9
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The guy in the first picture is Felix Baumgartner. He is trying to break Kittinger's world record skydive by jumping from 36km above the earth.
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Wow. Pioneers who put science and discovery in front of their own existence. -47G. Holy schmoly.
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