breakfast club
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In 1960, U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph Kittinger flew thirty kilometers straight up into the sky using a pressurized, high-altitude balloon. This very nearly made him the first man in space.
Mr. Kittinger free-fell for over twenty kilometers – at which point he was moving so fast that he broke the sound barrier.
He had all but left the earth’s atmosphere; the sky around him was pitch black; he could see the outlines of entire continents; and the haiku-like abstraction of his available reference points – earth, balloon, space – made it impossible to tell if he was really falling.
Does this sound like fiction? Luckily, there’s a film.
I don’t like heights, but this leaves me jealous.
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The problem with sharing this is it compounds the very issue John Green was commenting upon.
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Jonathan Coulton – “Shop Vac” (fan video; kinetic typography animation; by Jarrett Heather)
This is nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Please watch this.
Amazing work, Jarrett!
Well that’s freaking depressing.
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Sometimes I think to myself, “do I really want to buy another chocolate bar?”
And then I remember that there is a super volcano under Yellowstone that is 40,000 years overdue and when it erupts it could potentially cover most of north America in ash and create a volcanic winter that kills half the worlds population
And I’m like, fuck yeah I want that chocolate bar
