Friday, September 21, 2012

Kirk's Parchute jump from space? That's so 1960.

The real 1960, that is!

I had never heard of this, but US Air Force Pilot Joseph Kittinger jumped from a balloon 30 km above the earth's surface.  For all intents and purposes, from space! MADNESS.  He even exceeded Mach 1 on the descent... why isn't he famous?



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-369888258105653405&q=%22First+man+In+Space+-+Skydiving+from+the+edge+of+the+world%22+playable%3Atrue


http://tristetriste.com/post/31907353642/in-1960-u-s-air-force-pilot-joseph

Also from Tumblr today, and awesome print of famous robots.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_manppp7fZh1ruoz6ho1_1280.png

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