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July 2, 2012 03:10 pm PDT
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Parachuting from 120,000 feet
This summer, BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner plans to finally jump out of a helium balloon floating more than 120,000 feet from the Earth. (I first posted about Baumgartner's plans back in 2010.) If he succeeds, he'll beat the longstanding record set in 1960 by Air Force colonel Joe Kittinger who we've posted about before here. [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YNgyz3NFNsE/parachuting-from-120000-feet.html
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