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Today:120,000 foot space jump.

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    #482
    Snowie
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    that chaps a hero :cool:


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    #483
    [Deleted User]
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    He still has the highest even manned balloon and highest skydive record, so at least that's something!


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    #484
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Amazing stuff. Well done Felix.


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    #485
    Basq
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    Loved the shot of him celebrating on his knees... just amazing!


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    #486
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    Get the wind direction right lads!!


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    #487
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Nice landing...my feet would have collapsed!


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    #488
    Thrill
    Registered Users Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    Down safe. That was f**king awesome.


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    #489
    Guy:Incognito
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    Seems a lot of trouble to go to . He could have just eaten 500 cans of beans in a day or something. :)


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    #490
    kevin12345
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    Absolutely amazing!


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    #491
    bnt
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    Perfect landing - in to the wind, so he could just step on to the ground. Result!

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #492
    IzzyWizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭IzzyWizzy


    Bollix. Went for a wee and missed it.


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    #493
    [Deleted User]
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    God, he made that seem so easy :)


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    #494
    RuailleBuaille
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭RuailleBuaille


    That was awesome. Hats off Felix!


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    #495
    Tefral
    Registered Users Posts: 4,327 ✭✭✭Tefral


    Redbull and Zenith must be laughing.. over 345m people were looking at it.


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    #496
    DylanJM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭DylanJM


    That is the most AMAZING thing I've witnessed in my short 21 years on this planet. I mean FÚCK!!!
    That man has balls the size of the moon!


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    #497
    opinion guy
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    Pilotdude5 wrote: »
    Get the wind direction right lads!!

    Yah seriously!


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    #498
    DEVEREUX
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭DEVEREUX


    Amazing stuff, glad i watched it live!


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    #499
    mike65
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    I declare that awesome!

    Quite emotional (his mum his quite hot as well)


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    #500
    LaVail
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    Made me a little emotional for some reason


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    #501
    Skid
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    DylanJM wrote: »
    That is the most AMAZING thing I've witnessed in my short 21 years on this planet. I mean FÚCK!!!
    That man has balls the size of the moon!

    Yep, if they were any bigger he would need to put them in a wheelbarrow. Amazing.


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    #502
    1ZRed
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    DylanJM wrote: »
    That is the most AMAZING thing I've witnessed in my short 21 years on this planet. I mean FÚCK!!!
    That man has balls the size of the moon!

    And he carries on like it was nothing to him. That man is unreal.


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    #503
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    IzzyWizzy wrote: »
    Bollix. Went for a wee and missed it.
    Damm, you must have some bladder!


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    #504
    tommyboy2222
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    Vodka and red bulls all round !!!!


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    #505
    MadYaker
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    That was f*cking amazing! I was absolutely bricking it as the door opened, and when he just dropped off into the nothingness, unbelievable. Such a soft landing to!


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    #506
    ringadingding
    Registered Users Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    Made it look like a piece of piss,
    Next !


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    #507
    homer simpson
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    IzzyWizzy wrote: »
    Bollix. Went for a wee and missed it.

    You must have a large bladder, I'd see a doctor about that.


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    #508
    LizT
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    Amazing. I'd say he will never ever be able to describe that feeling.


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    #509
    Talib Fiasco
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    Felix: 'Again again again again :D'

    Incredible stuff. What a man. Hope he or someone else does this again soon.


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    #510
    YFlyer
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    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Damm, you must have some bladder!
    The size of the balloon


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    #511
    BorneTobyWilde
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    I dunno why but have urge to go buy some Red Bull


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