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Old 10-15-2012, 10:38 AM   #1
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What's the big deal ?
I think that it was from a record breaking altitude and he fell very quickly.
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Old 10-30-2012, 03:24 PM   #2
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I think that it was from a record breaking altitude and he fell very quickly.
... and must have shattered his brain real hard, if he had one in the first place:

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FELIX Baumgartner, the Austrian parachutist who broke the sound barrier by jumping to earth from the stratosphere, has said in an interview he backs the idea of a dictatorship, though a moderate one. [...] Schwarzenegger's experience, said Baumgartner, who did not reveal whether the thought came to him during the four minutes and 20 seconds of his descent, showed "you can't do anything in a democracy". [...]

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