Alan Eustace breaks Bumgardner record - Where is the attention?

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And this Google exec got nothing? In case you didn't know, BBC let me know a 57 year old dude smashed  Felix's record by almost 7,000 feet. No discovery channel special or anything. What gives?

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html?_r=0&referrer=


A well-known computer scientist parachuted from a balloon near the top of the stratosphere on Friday, falling faster than the speed of sound and breaking the world altitude record set just two years ago.

The jump was made by Alan Eustace, 57, a senior vice president of Google. At dawn he was lifted from an abandoned runway at the airport here by a balloon filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium.

For a little over two hours, the balloon ascended at speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute to an altitude of more than 25 miles.

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Bumgardner - sounds like a homosexual landscaper lål

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Bumgardner - sounds like a homosexual landscaper lål

 

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Mods, thanks for the edit. I was on my phone and too lazy to type it all out.