Felix Baumgartner Quotes
At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
Baumgartner, Felix. Quoted in "A Supersonic Jump, From 23 Miles in the Air" by John Tierney. The New York Times, The New York Times Company, 15 Oct. 2012.
He argued that the device, by decapitating the victim very quickly, was a more humane form of execution than the methods previously used. Ironically, a device that was adopted for human purposes, was used to extreme’s in the French Revolution where tens of thousands of people were killed using this machine—the Reign of Terror.
Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil, and BASE jumper. He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent. He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Though he still holds the two latter records, the first was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet—or, 41.42 km (25.74 mi) with a drogue.
