Stratospheric Skydiver Felix Baumgartner Dies

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian base jumper and skydiver renowned for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, died while paragliding in Italy on Thursday ...

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...meh.

#1 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-07-17 07:04 PM | Reply

Playing chicken with Mother Earth has never made much sense to me.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-17 07:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Getting attention by doing more and more dangerous stunts...looks like insanity to me, but then, I am old and don't even drive these days. Maybe the best life is one lived at that edge between life and death. To me, it is an insult to reality to embrace that level of suicidality.

#3 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-18 08:06 AM | Reply

I recall watching his jump from space. Balls of diamond. Gravity is --------- just a good idea, it's the law. RIP...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-18 08:17 AM | Reply

All birds eventually fall to the ground.
That should never be an excuse not to fly.

Embracing the inevitable took him places few of us will ever enjoy.

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-07-18 08:26 AM | Reply

Watching Felix step off that ladder and fall to Earth on livestream is one of my all-time top five moments in sports history.

#6 | Posted by rcade at 2025-07-18 10:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Dying while doing what you love isn't that bad of a way to go.

It was neat that Joseph Kittinger, who dove from 102,000 ft in 1960, served as Baumgartner's advisor and was in the control room as his communicator when Baumgartner made his record breaking freefall.

#7 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-18 11:19 AM | Reply