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Red Bull Stratos: To the Edge of Space

If you watched the 10 best jumps ever compilation, you may have marvelled at Joseph Kittinger’s most amazing high altitude jump. Kittinger holds records for the highest parachute jump (31,300 m), longest freefall (4 minutes, 36 seconds), and fastest speed achieved by a human being through the atmosphere (988 km/h). 50 years on and a challenger enters.

Ace BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner has teamed up with Red Bull and the Kittinger himself in attempt to make history. The mission is called Red Bull Stratos and would have Baumgartner ascending to a height of 36,600 m above the earth and jumping off the gondola. His stratospheric freefall jump would then beat Kittinger’s record and would make Baumgartner first human to break the speed of sound with his own body.

Red Bull Stratos was announced in January of this year and the record-breaking attempt will take place between September 20th and December 31st. Check out this little clip as they prepare for their mission to the edge of space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGmTV0q2kY

More info about the mission can be found at Red Bull Stratos.

[via The Awesomer]

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High Flyers: World Record BASE Jump off The Burj Dubai

The Burj Dubai skyscraper under construction is Dubai, tops out at over 800 metres, making it the world’s tallest building. And back in May 2008, in the early hours of the morning, two men stole into the building (at the time it was 650m tall). They casually walked up t0 the 160th floors (it took them 75 minutes to do so) and flung themselves off the building. Robin Schmidt and Jan Bednarz were filmed the first men (Hervé Le Gallou and an unnamed British man) to perform a world record (and highly illegal) BASE jump off the Burj Dubai.

Here’s the video of their crazy feat.

Read the full story at Current – via Laughing Squid.

UPDATE: An official world record BASE jump was carried out in January 2010. Read that story at Word Records Academy.

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Big Love: Japanese Set Orgy World Record

From Crying Sumo competitions to penis worshiping festivals, the Japanese are known for their odd, attention-seeking activities. And word has it that the they have set a new world record for the biggest orgy ever. 250 men and 250 women gathered in a warehouse and commenced the organised, close-quarters sex. I’d hate to be the clean-up…

A “professional camera crew” recorded the entire event and the DVD, the cleverly-titled 500 People Sex!, is on sale for USD 40.00.

Full article at Weird Asia News.

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Heavy Melons: World’s Biggest Breast Implants Set at 38KKK

Holy Freakin’ Bazookas Batman! Here at the Onelargeprawn blog we flit one crazyhead to another. And here’s the next exhibit at the circus. Brazil-born Sheyla Hershey is the proud owner of the world’s largest breasts, measuring in at an outrageous 38KKK!

5’3″ Hershey who lives in Houston, Texas, was a back-aching 34 FFF after eight surgeries, but she had dreams of even bigger mammaries. Texas law restrained her from getting the surgery done in the US – the state limits the amount of silicone that a person put in their body before it will, oh I don’t know, KILL THEM. To solve that issue, Hershey flew back to her native Brazil where sill health laws don’t apply as much, and got the necessary enhancements to push her to 38KKK.

Hit the jump for more pics. [Warning: very bad use of Photoshop filters]

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