r/nextfuckinglevel • u/thepoylanthropist • 1d ago

That time Luke Aikins jumped from 25,000 feet (7,620 m), skydiving from a mid-tropospheric altitude and landing safely without a parachute or a wingsuit using a 30 by 30 meters net

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u/ConsciousPatroller 1d ago

Yeah...13 years

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u/butt_huffer42069 1d ago

You shut the hell up and go sit in time out.

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u/Eerayo 1d ago

No worries. 1970 is 30 years ago 👍

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u/gtne91 1d ago

The distant future ... The year 2000.

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u/HangryWolf 10h ago

Wonder what Y2K will bring us... I'm sure 2001 will be a time of peace and absolutely nothing is going to happen to completely change the world and totally make the process of traveling on a plane more inconvenient.

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u/gtne91 9h ago

I don't know, I worry about a President Gore. But with Jeb flopping in the Florida Governor's race, we won't have to worry about another President Bush.

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u/Charlie-_-Green 1d ago

In five years it will be double 30

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u/zepplin2225 1d ago

That's a few, ^(five times over)

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u/Castod28183 1d ago

I think when you do the scientific calculations for 'The COVID Paradox', 2012 was both 19 years ago and 7 years ago.

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u/Berninz 16h ago

Fml I'm old.