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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner
He's married.
His risks automatically affects his family.
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And his wife supported him, I read;
and as I wrote, I assume being a star in his business he has money, and has done what was needed to make sure his widow would be able to raise their 4 year old kid in material safety. He had done 18 thousand jumps, he did dangerous stunts for the movies, he had jumped off planes without parachute before and got one handed wile in flight. and they tested the net with three or four dozen dummies.
Did you guys dislike what Baumgartner did, too? All I recall was that everybody was applauding. While Baumgartner later admitted he was almost brought to his knees by his fear. From the video of his fall, how he frantically had to fight for regaining control and would have been cut to pieces while being inflight if he had failed, I think this net jump now was the much safer thing to do.
Fear is the ultimate frontier. We obey it - and will stay belittled by it. And yes, I include myself in that.
That is not what Homer has written about.