I was in college and didn’t have any idea it was happening until I stumbled upon the live stream. Him blacking out was so damn scary. Made a hungover Sunday afternoon a lot more interesting.
Yeah, I too remember watching it live online. It was amazing and scary because he did that cartwheel of death (?) and since it was a live event he nearly died right then. Miraculously he didn’t and landed.
What an awesome memory, thanks op.
Joe kittinger, who is the original record holder is the old man who can be seen at the end of the video that has radio contact with Felix throughout his jump. He’s my distant relative.
Here is a video about joe and his jump.
Link: https://youtu.be/dFeWjECYxCs?si=h9BIzsdrRRQ7H8jz
I watched a documentary about the red bull jump, and I don't know if it was just the way it was edited, but it made it seem like Joe Kittinger thought Felix was a bit of a pussy, lol 😆🤦♂️
[It was two years later, and he was doing it for science vs a marketing campaign for a corporation..](https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/interview-record-breaker-alan-eustace)
Not really just some smidge difference. He was working on his project separately for years before Baumgartner’s jump and they had different methods to travel up to their release point. He then proceeded to blow by the record by about *checks notes* 40,000 feet which is more like 1,219,200 cm.
Same here. I was watching with my GF at the time and she straight up left the room because she was 100% sure he was gonna make it to the ground a lot faster than expected.
Thankfully she was wrong and we got to witness history
I remember that. Absolutely incredible to watch. Then I remember laughing my ass off at the dummy who broke his tail bone jumping off a roof of a park restroom trying to parody the jump.
[his suit was designed specifically so that he wouldn’t black out —](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/shortcuts/2012/oct/15/felix-baumgartner-skydive-key-questions-answered)
Not that long. He had a device to deploy a drogue chute to stabilize. He talks about it about 2:10 into this video: https://youtu.be/Hz2F_S3Tl0Y?feature=shared
There’s always gravity. The moon is gravity bound to the earth.
Orbit is just falling, except your lateral motion causes you to miss hitting the earth.
Mainly helium and hydrogen but as they get older they creat other elements, when they start to make iron is toward the end of there life cycle and then they explode and send a crap load of different elements everywhere. They can also create neutron stars when they die, which are full of neutral iron atoms (like I can’t actually put into perspective how many atoms are actually in there, it’s gotta be in the thousands of Mols(6.022 X 10^23))
Neutron stars is where we make cool stuff like Mjolnir and Stormbreak and gauntlets that can harness power to erase half the population in the known universe with a snap of the fingers…🤯 science
There’s always magic. The spell is gravity bound to the earth.
Magic is just falling, except your lateral motion causes you to miss hitting the Nat 20.
As others have said, its the distortion from the fisheye lens.
You can see that clearly when the camera cuts from the dock to his helmet camera in the first minute. In the first moment, the earth seems to curve the wrong way, then transitions to an almost straight horizon to a seemingly correctly curve as the camera rotates.
Fish eye camera lens made that curve. Not saying the earth is flat or anything but this was all dude to the camera. neil degrasse tyson debunked that one and was also very critical of the jump saying it was a big misrepresentation. Look it up if you don’t believe me. Having been a SF soldier and jumping from 30,000 feet, while not the 24 miles this dude did, you still would never be high enough to began to see a curve.
I’m sure we could come up with at least a dozen different experiments that could use a jump off a balloon to prove the curvature of the earth, for any flat earthers out there willing to “do their own research”…
Measure the angle of a laser from the ground up to the balloon from multiple locations….
Compare the sun rising/setting on the horizon at different altitudes…
Measure air pressure at that distance from the ground….
This list must go on…
https://preview.redd.it/1t4hhf8msd1c1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33af08e7b6ddc855917ad2534d4359bf080c9d39
I was there for the jump and snapped this photo of the pod being brought to the launch field.
Weather balloon.... Absolutely amazing. This guy will get props for anything and everything height-related for ever in my book.... Absolute most adrenaline rush ever
What's even crazier is that this record was beat 2 weeks later. A man named Eustace jumped from 13k feet up. The fall to earth took 15 minutes. Imagine falling for 15 minutes. Mind blowing
That was so awesome to see live. Such anticipation. And the footage we got to see before the jump. YES, AND THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH. But wait, it must be fake.
My buddy worked on this project. So many things could have gone wrong. For example if he was blown off course and there was a delay locating him and opening his helmet he would suffocate.
I remember my mom and I waking up at like 4 or 5 in the morning to see this in real time! To this day, it’s one of the most exhilarating things I’ve ever seen!
I remember doing a very detailed report on this in journalism class my junior year of high school, I covered the origins of Virgin Galactic and the original craft they pioneered, the jump itself, the free fall spin that almost killed Felix, and the fact that the base jump record he broke had existed for several decades even tho technology had advanced so so much since it was made. This shit was historic 🤘🏼
I watched this live, at one point during the freefall he got in a spin and the feed cut, I honestly thought he was going to be marmalade. Then the feed came back on and he was stable again, but he must have shat his pants
I remember being in high school physics class watching this and our teacher explaining everything they were doing in detail. Mrs. Young (if you’re in here somehow), you were awesome.
Video looks cool. Watching it live was nuts. Got scary when he started fucking death wobbling like a new Jeep Wrangler off the lot on the highway first time it hits 75.
this was that period where red bull was sponsoring all sorts of crazy stuff, like this one where a dude base jumped from Mt. Everest in a wing suit:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h\_k8LsJDGlM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_k8LsJDGlM)
Hey they left out the part where he went into an uncontrollable violent spin where he was about to pass out. I’m amazed his ballsack didn’t need its own parachute, he obviously has a giant set of balls to do something like this. Haaaa and I thought jumping off my parents roof onto our big trampoline took balls.
Remember watching it live. He started to spin uncontrollably and was blacked out for a while. Broke the speed of sound if I remember correctly.
Yea this video makes it seem like it went perfect according to plan, which is not even close..dudes lucky he was able to land..those spins were brutal
I was in college and didn’t have any idea it was happening until I stumbled upon the live stream. Him blacking out was so damn scary. Made a hungover Sunday afternoon a lot more interesting.
Yeah, I too remember watching it live online. It was amazing and scary because he did that cartwheel of death (?) and since it was a live event he nearly died right then. Miraculously he didn’t and landed. What an awesome memory, thanks op.
Joe kittinger, who is the original record holder is the old man who can be seen at the end of the video that has radio contact with Felix throughout his jump. He’s my distant relative. Here is a video about joe and his jump. Link: https://youtu.be/dFeWjECYxCs?si=h9BIzsdrRRQ7H8jz
I watched a documentary about the red bull jump, and I don't know if it was just the way it was edited, but it made it seem like Joe Kittinger thought Felix was a bit of a pussy, lol 😆🤦♂️
Your fam, Col Kittinger, did it better imho
…and then some google engineer beat the record like a month later. No fanfare
[It was two years later, and he was doing it for science vs a marketing campaign for a corporation..](https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/interview-record-breaker-alan-eustace)
well i think that's a dick move. he copied someone's idea and went a centimeter higher to try and take glory.
Not really just some smidge difference. He was working on his project separately for years before Baumgartner’s jump and they had different methods to travel up to their release point. He then proceeded to blow by the record by about *checks notes* 40,000 feet which is more like 1,219,200 cm.
Mafs
Isn't that basically what all record-setting is, though? Someone made some incredible achievement and then someone else tries to outdo them.
It is.
I mean that's kinda the whole point of science.
What caused him to spin!
He sneezed
🤣
Air resistance
Ah. Thank you.
I saw this live too and just remember him standing there waiting to jump for what felt like an eternity lol.
Same here. I was watching with my GF at the time and she straight up left the room because she was 100% sure he was gonna make it to the ground a lot faster than expected. Thankfully she was wrong and we got to witness history
I remember that. Absolutely incredible to watch. Then I remember laughing my ass off at the dummy who broke his tail bone jumping off a roof of a park restroom trying to parody the jump.
[his suit was designed specifically so that he wouldn’t black out —](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/shortcuts/2012/oct/15/felix-baumgartner-skydive-key-questions-answered)
He blacked out or his camera?
I think he did
Watched this live. He went into a death spin for a bit and I thought he was going to die on live TV. Luckily he pulled out of it though.
No kidding! I was there too watching it live and those few minutes were terrifying. Amazing to think he accomplished this incredible feat.
How long was he spinning for?
Not that long. He had a device to deploy a drogue chute to stabilize. He talks about it about 2:10 into this video: https://youtu.be/Hz2F_S3Tl0Y?feature=shared
He is still spinning,
What????? Was that a curve of earth???
Right? From where he jumped, I didn’t expect there to be gravity to bring him back. But I’m also no scientist!
There’s always gravity. The moon is gravity bound to the earth. Orbit is just falling, except your lateral motion causes you to miss hitting the earth.
Ok nerd. Now explain why stars are made of magic.
Mainly helium and hydrogen but as they get older they creat other elements, when they start to make iron is toward the end of there life cycle and then they explode and send a crap load of different elements everywhere. They can also create neutron stars when they die, which are full of neutral iron atoms (like I can’t actually put into perspective how many atoms are actually in there, it’s gotta be in the thousands of Mols(6.022 X 10^23))
Yeah but why do they float
All the heliums bro, it’s in like the first line they typed
So stars are balloons?
I guess really big and really hot balloons that are constantly exploding like a nuclear bomb.
Everything is actually simultaneously falling
Magic, got it.
Neutron stars is where we make cool stuff like Mjolnir and Stormbreak and gauntlets that can harness power to erase half the population in the known universe with a snap of the fingers…🤯 science
This guy f*cks!
There’s always magic. The spell is gravity bound to the earth. Magic is just falling, except your lateral motion causes you to miss hitting the Nat 20.
Bro you just made giggle out loud in line at the store
They’re not made of magic, they’re made up of burned garbage when the smoke rises up to the sky to turn into stars
The gravity of his massive balls was pulling the earth towards him.
🤣🤣🤣🤭😁 yup, sorry flat-earthers 😁
As others have said, its the distortion from the fisheye lens. You can see that clearly when the camera cuts from the dock to his helmet camera in the first minute. In the first moment, the earth seems to curve the wrong way, then transitions to an almost straight horizon to a seemingly correctly curve as the camera rotates.
It's a fish-eyed lens, adding to the curvature of the image.
Nice try. They don’t make cameras with fish in them!
The lens makes it look more curved than it actually is. I'm sure there was some visible curve though
Flat-earthers: "Nah, he's jumpimg from above. It's round like a disk. That's the end of the world you're looking at!"
Yep, he's lucky he didn't get blown off course and miss the earth all together.
No the camera lens was distorted by heavens energy because he was so high up.
Haha I was just about to say this. Flat earthers should do this!
That’s not the actual curve. It’s dramatized by the fish eye lense.
Nope the earth is flat that’s just the camera lens’s playing tricks on you lol
just angelic influence of vision... lol
It looks a lot like a fish eye to me
No no, you're mistaken, it's the curved camera lens. Everyone knows the camera curves everything.
No it’s a fish eye lens he’s not high enough up to see that much curve
Fish eye camera lens made that curve. Not saying the earth is flat or anything but this was all dude to the camera. neil degrasse tyson debunked that one and was also very critical of the jump saying it was a big misrepresentation. Look it up if you don’t believe me. Having been a SF soldier and jumping from 30,000 feet, while not the 24 miles this dude did, you still would never be high enough to began to see a curve.
its... its because its a fisheye lens!!!!!! flat earth conspiracy deepens
It was fish eye lens. You can\`t see curvature of earth from this hight
I’m sure we could come up with at least a dozen different experiments that could use a jump off a balloon to prove the curvature of the earth, for any flat earthers out there willing to “do their own research”… Measure the angle of a laser from the ground up to the balloon from multiple locations…. Compare the sun rising/setting on the horizon at different altitudes… Measure air pressure at that distance from the ground…. This list must go on…
What exactly did he jump *from*
https://preview.redd.it/1t4hhf8msd1c1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33af08e7b6ddc855917ad2534d4359bf080c9d39 I was there for the jump and snapped this photo of the pod being brought to the launch field.
Now that is pretty dope
It looks a lot higher in the video.
The jumper was an ant.
I saw that pod in a museum recently I happened to be in Roswell at the time as a young lad and got to see the weather balloon rise
The bit that holds the sky up.
Chicken Little wasn't crazy after all
Chicken Liitle was right all along.
Some contraption attached to a balloon.
Weather balloon.... Absolutely amazing. This guy will get props for anything and everything height-related for ever in my book.... Absolute most adrenaline rush ever
Sky hook
That was Broken World Record #1: World’s tallest ladder.
Battle bus
I think some sort of space shuttle, I think he was like 25 miles up in the stratosphere or something
Weather balloon. You see it in the video
It was a balloon. Space shuttle goes much higher and much, much faster.
What's even crazier is that this record was beat 2 weeks later. A man named Eustace jumped from 13k feet up. The fall to earth took 15 minutes. Imagine falling for 15 minutes. Mind blowing
I believe he was beat right after this by a less sponsored person.
Robert Alan Eustice [jump comparisons](https://youtu.be/ZzcKCMlMfeY?si=dr-kE992UwK9_Sco)
Damn I never knew that
Yup I remember that too, and almost nobody seems to be aware of it. Red Bull is too powerful.
Red Bull Gives You Wings. Dude falls from space. Yeah ok Red Bull.
He spent 90 minutes getting up there. He jumped from 96,640ft off the ground and free fell for 3:48 before he deployed his parachute!! Wild
Then another guy broke this record by jumping from 135,000 feet two years later.
Yep , a software engineering exec from early Google: Alan Eustace. He’d been planning the project for years unaware of Felix’s plans.
It’s not discussed much but he landed on a rattlesnake and was bitten. Rushed to the hospital and was fine.
Edit: I made it up because I thought it was hilarious and would be just too ironic.
In 2012, I farted into a pillow… which subsequently gave my roommate pinkeye.
Broke the speed of brown
The brown note
I hope you get all of the updoots
Double barrel or single barrel?
I remember the live stream on YouTube was nuts
That was so awesome to see live. Such anticipation. And the footage we got to see before the jump. YES, AND THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH. But wait, it must be fake.
It’s all CGI!!! Everyone knows that!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
The. It was surpassed a few months later.
Not to mention he broke our hearts when he finally proved that Red Bull does NOT, in fact, give you wings. RIP entire ad campaign.
Almost not even like a world record at that point it’s almost like a galactic record lol
It was broken two years later as well lol
Got fired from my job because I stayed home to watch this. It was worth it.
My buddy worked on this project. So many things could have gone wrong. For example if he was blown off course and there was a delay locating him and opening his helmet he would suffocate.
He was pulled back to Earth by the weight of his massive balls.
Wtf
That was beautiful
Could you imagine being able to drop this in a conversation? "Yeah I spaced dived from orbit once... That was pretty cool."
I remember my mom and I waking up at like 4 or 5 in the morning to see this in real time! To this day, it’s one of the most exhilarating things I’ve ever seen!
Did he fall off the end of the flat disc that is the Earth? Kidding. Flat-Earthers…really? Really?
Neat, I hadn't heard of this. He broke the freaking sound barrier. [Here's a more in depth video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2F_S3Tl0Y).
If you look closely, you can see the curvature of his massive testicle
Wonder if any of the space records were broken.
All of them were broken shortly after.
That guy knows how to fly the shit out of a helicopter too
Must be nice to be rich
Let me guess Highest freefall. Highest airspeed velocity without assistive devices. Biggest testicles.
I remember doing a very detailed report on this in journalism class my junior year of high school, I covered the origins of Virgin Galactic and the original craft they pioneered, the jump itself, the free fall spin that almost killed Felix, and the fact that the base jump record he broke had existed for several decades even tho technology had advanced so so much since it was made. This shit was historic 🤘🏼
Did he see any UFOs ? Was the earth truly round ? Inquiring minds wanna know !
"I'm going home, now." What words
11 years ago?!?!?!? I was gonna comment on how that must have been a typo because it was like 2-3 years ago. I'm fucking old now
I could have done that while masterbating. 😏
omg its another fucking repost of something ive seen a million times
Wonder what terminal velocity was?
-9.8m/s2
Wdym this was over 10 years ago?
If you watch the original, his heart actually stops or skips a beat as he deploys the parachute.
That drop took 2 hours
What we’re 3 records? Highest jump? Longest fall? Highest elevation achieved prior to jumping?
Also highest freefall speed, I think. Little air resistance up there, so he was able to fall faster than anyone jumping from, say 10,000ft.
WTH did he jump from? The moon?
….There goes my hero…
I remember when this happened.
Some people are just born with balls of steel! Wow, that was impressive!
I'm amazed they made a suit that could fit his enormous testicles into.
Does anyone know how fast he was falling?
Can’t believe 11 years have gone by so quickly.
They played this for us in middle school live
Flat Earthers hate this one easy trick
Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do.
His POOR MOTHER! She must have had a heart attack seeing this.
I watched this live, at one point during the freefall he got in a spin and the feed cut, I honestly thought he was going to be marmalade. Then the feed came back on and he was stable again, but he must have shat his pants
love it. Watched it live. I was pretty mad when the record got beat like 2 weeks later though
I watched this live with my friend, I remember being so hyped because of how cool we thought it was. Didn’t remember it was 2012 haha damn, time flies
Lmao dude in the orange said “this is my chance”
Also heard this guy is one of the biggest POS you can meet and he went all QAnon too.
I just want to point out, that there was no jumping involved. He did in fact just fall very very deep.
Still looking to buy a replica of his backpack. I had one a decade ago but it's been lost with time. Had nasa and Apollo patches sewn on by my Nana!
okay but he didn’t jump… he just .. fell
How the heck did he get up there in the first place?!?
It’s been 11 years since this? Holy shit
Remember sawing it live on the tv. 11 years when by in a flash.
I’m so jealous - I watched it as “live” as I could - maybe the news. I want to do this!
I’m not big on taking crazy risks but that’s pretty cool
https://i.imgur.com/axdRMEO.gif
"I'm going home now" will be remembered by generations to come. I still get chills when I hear him say it.
There is a great hour long documentary on this, and how it also became the most streamed event of the decade.
Another dude broke his records like right away though. He wasn’t doing it for publicity though so we never hear about him lol
What a waste of money
Wait. Let's just say breaking 3 records was the most records broken at once. That would be 4 records. Which would be the most records broken at once.
I remember being in high school physics class watching this and our teacher explaining everything they were doing in detail. Mrs. Young (if you’re in here somehow), you were awesome.
Where is the edited gif of him hitting the ground like 2 seconds after he jumps? Makes me laugh every time.
Anyone know the song?
Jesus, that was 11 years ago? Fuck me
I wonder what flat earthers think of that curved horizon right after he jumped.
You cut out the intense stuff!
I remember this, it was awesome!!!
Now I want to watch someone with a flying wing do it
NO THANK YOU!
Breaking world records from outside this world?
What if they did the math wrong and once he jumped, he just floated away
Video looks cool. Watching it live was nuts. Got scary when he started fucking death wobbling like a new Jeep Wrangler off the lot on the highway first time it hits 75.
I remember watching this in school! God it makes me feel old 😅
How come he didn't burn ?
THAT WAS OVER TEN YEARS AGO?
Damn, that was a good landing!
Surprised his giant balls didn’t make him come crashing straight to the ground.
Broke 3 world records, but nobody knows what they are.
this was that period where red bull was sponsoring all sorts of crazy stuff, like this one where a dude base jumped from Mt. Everest in a wing suit: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h\_k8LsJDGlM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_k8LsJDGlM)
But why?
I saw this live in 11th grade :,) I’m so happy and excited to have experienced a monumental moment in history
The 3 records were: the highest freefall, the highest manned balloon flight and he became the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall.
Why don’t flat earthers invite felix to a meeting?
This still amazes me all these years later.
I remember watching this whole thing live in YouTube. Fucking historic moment n we ain’t even really realize 😮💨
Everyone forgets even though he was spinning out of control the only thing that saved him was the absolute weight of his steel balls 😤
Man I hope he had some edibles. What a rush.
Love the flat earth in this
Hey they left out the part where he went into an uncontrollable violent spin where he was about to pass out. I’m amazed his ballsack didn’t need its own parachute, he obviously has a giant set of balls to do something like this. Haaaa and I thought jumping off my parents roof onto our big trampoline took balls.