In August of 1960, he put on a fucking spacesuit and jumped from 102,800 feet. This was – and is – the highest altitude at which any man has ever been crazy enough to jump out of a moving vehicle. Seriously, any higher, and he might as well have been leaping out of the freaking Space Shuttle. He was in freefall for four and a half minutes, traveling over 714 miles per hour and withstanding temperatures close to -100 degrees Fahrenheit. While hurtling head-first towards the earth like Wile E. Coyote on a bad peyote trip he became the first man to exceed the speed of sound without a vehicle. Re-read that sentence again, and give it a minute for the complete utter insanity of that statement to sink in. This guy was literally traveling faster than a speeding fucking bullet. The entire trip, from balloon to pavement, took thirteen and a half minutes. He lived, probably through sheer force of will alone
And apparently Boxxy is the new meme at the chan - Soon, pretty much two thirds of all /b/ threads were Boxxy threads. |
