Science.
YouTube's server just crashed from the traffic of watching the live stream of Felix Baumgartner, Austrian pilot and parachutist, breaking the world records for highest balloon ascent and highest freefall, funded by the Red Bull Stratos project.
A man jumped out of a tiny capsule, into empty space, with the curvature of the Earth in his line of sight. If there is any image that represents singular human ingenuity, courage, willpower and inventiveness, it could be this one. But hey, an Olympic athelete ran track with prosthetic legs and we have a robot on Mars collecting valuable space things. So add this to the list.
The world's a shitty place, which makes moments like these all the more sweet. History was made today.
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