The Daily Populous Saturday November 22nd, 2025 morning edition
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Firestorm0x0 on November 21st, 2025 at 16:53 UTC »

And right after that the guy became completely nuts - I'm not kidding.

Phuzz15 on November 21st, 2025 at 17:00 UTC »

It really sucked to find out this guy was such a piece of shit.

I watched his Red Bull drop from space on a heroic dose of acid once and it pushed me to want to pursue daredevil shit like that, I always wanted to meet him. Then when he died, I got Reddit-learned on a thread about him.

Spartan2470 on November 21st, 2025 at 17:11 UTC »

Here is a higher-quality and less-cropped verion of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer, Predrag Vuckovic.

> Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria celebrates after successfully completing the world's highest skydive, a supersonic leap, for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico, on Oct. 14, 2012.

Here is the video of this.

Here provides the follwoing context:

> The launch was originally scheduled for 9 October 2012 but was aborted due to adverse weather conditions. Launch was rescheduled and took place on 14 October 2012. Baumgartner landed in eastern New Mexico after jumping from a then world-record 38,969.3 metres (127,852 feet), falling a record distance of 36,402.6 metres (119,431 feet) and parachuting the final 2,566.7 metres (8,421 feet).

> During this descent Baumgartner set the record for fastest speed of free fall at 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph; 377.1 m/s), making him the first human to break the sound barrier outside a vehicle. Baumgartner was in free fall for 4 minutes and 19 seconds, a fall time 17 seconds shorter than the record set during mentor Joseph Kittinger's jump on 16 August 1960.[34] Kittinger was also his radio contact during the jump.

> Two years and 10 days later Baumgartner's altitude record was broken by Alan Eustace.