So last week Felix Baumgartner planned to jump from a helium balloon that brought him up to 120,000 feet. The mission got called off and rescheduled because of huge gusts of wind. The balloon wouldn't go straight up because with each gust of wind it would throw the balloon off course. Which could be very dangerous because if he got off course it might be hard to keep him under peoples watch. Plus if the wind is gusty down here on earth who knows how bad it would be up towards the top of the atmosphere. He plans on doing it this coming Sunday or Monday if every thing works out fine and the weather holds up. I will definitely be watching it live whenever it happens!
The mission is to reach super sonic speeds and reach the speed of sound. Remember he is free falling so a lot of things can go very wrong very fast. He could go unconscious which then he wouldn't be able to pull his shoot and would fall to his death (very scary). At one point he would be going so fast that his blood could literally boil inside of him and he would die that way. All this things that could go wrong would end up with him dying.
He's a huge risk taker and loves to live on the edge it seems like. He started out just skydiving and doing stunts for Red Bull. Then when that wasn't enough of a thrill for him he started base jumping. Base jumping is when a person jumps from a standing object and free falls n then pulls a parachute at the very last second. Here's a video of how close to the ground and intense base jumping can be. You have to have special training to do this but I think the adrenalin rush would be amazing.
If I could learn how to base jump and skydive I think that would be amazing. It's always something that i've wanted to do but have never had the chance. I feel like you would get such a rush from it. It would be exhilarating!
I am kind of upset that this got cancelled the first time, as this really is an amazing feet and if he does survive this he will be remembered for a long time. It still is very interesting to me how americans always seem to want to do stunts to push the limits, as it really is amazing what some people will try, I wonder what they will think of next.
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