One of the coolest moving GIFs ever. The man who fell 24 miles in just four minutes, breaking the speed of sound: Felix Baumgartner.  

I note very little news coverage among the big networks and soon to be defunct papers out there this morning. Instead we’re being treated to a few polls in Ohio. It’s all politics.

But Baumgartner fell to earth at 834MPH, with just his body, and he survived. Made history. And now NASA and others with big degrees in things can study how exactly this worked and maybe equip our astronauts with the same luxuries of life that he had so we can expand our horizons and move beyond earth … 

I guarantee that is a tragic mishap would have occurred, if his lungs would have exploded, or if he would have turned into a flaming piece of debris, the media would have wall to wall coverage, be interviewing neighbors, and searching through Facebook for photos of Felix. Instead he lived and did something truly monumental. And what’s he get? A brief mention in a few places…