Why anyone would want to leap from a balloon more than 24 miles from earth is beyond me.
But I admire Felix Baumgartner for doing it, breaking the sound barrier and the record for the highest ever parachute jump.
His website is here.
On the about page you’ll find his motto: Everyone has limits, not everyone accepts them.
Can you compare this feat to those of the early adventurers who sought to explore unknown corners of the earth or is it literally and figuratively out of this world?
 | tiffany267 on Diane Coleman – Enterpri… |
 | homepaddock on Saturday soapbox |
 | Andrei on Saturday soapbox |
 | Dave Kennedy on Green hypocrisy |
| Dave Kennedy on Green hypocrisy |
| tiffany267 on Saturday soapbox |
Cactus Kate Keeping Stock Kiwi Blog No Minister Whaleoil Rivetting Kate Taylor Inquiring Mind Macdoctor A Bee of a Certain Age Lindsay Mitchell Valerie Davies A Touch of the Crazy Hand Mirror Roarprawn Teaching the Teacher Letters From Wetville Look Up At The Sky John Key Bill English Over the Fence National MPs Election results Alf Grumble MP Anti-dismal Offsetting Behaviour visible hand Life Behind the Iron Drape Barbar’s meaty issues MIlking on the Moove NZ Conservative Something Should Go Here coNZervative Quoteunquotenz Credo Quia Absurdum Est Liberation Dim Post Not PC Clint Heine Liberty Scott YourNZ Imperator Fish Mydeology interest.co.nz Scoop Business GonzoFreakpower Rob’s Blockhead Blog Stephen Franks Oswaldbastable M and M Hamish in Auckland Raymond Huber Autism & Oughtimsms Karl du Fresne Story People Zen Bandit Lady Garden PM of NZ Pundit Brian Edwards Media Bowalleyroad Eye to the Long Run Robert Guyton Big News kiwipolitico Laughy Kate Artandmylife Craft is the new black Well behaved women rarely make history Sciblogs Open Parachute Motella Bill Ralston & Janet Wilson John Ansell Will Type for Food Watching Brief Oamaru Opera House Thoughts from 40 Sth Tumeke! Fairfacts Media Show Dave Gee life from right field Latitude 44 Stellar Cafe BK Drinkwater Monkeyswithtypewriter Mydeology Poneke
