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Probably the last person who’d want to rest in peace … far too boring for him. My wife and I were only reminiscing very recently about the day we watched that moment, felt like the whole world was too…56 as alluded to is a fine innings for his type…the type that mesmerised us.
RIP Felix Baumgartner on 07:47 - Jul 19 by Perublue
Probably the last person who’d want to rest in peace … far too boring for him. My wife and I were only reminiscing very recently about the day we watched that moment, felt like the whole world was too…56 as alluded to is a fine innings for his type…the type that mesmerised us.
[Post edited 19 Jul 8:23]
I was only vaguely aware of him, I think to say that the whole World was watching him is something of an overstatement (and not everyone who did watch would have been impressed if they saw the stunt as a waste of resources.) That being said it was an incredibly impressive achievement and no doubt yielded some important data about what the human body can withstand.
The other thought that crosses my mind, after reading some of the dodgy stuff on his Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner# ) is how elite sportsmen, in fact elites in general, probably suffer some emotional deficit in return for the benefit they get from training their body to near perfection.
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