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.
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.
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.
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.
Here is the video of this.
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