One of my friends was banging on about it last night
comparing it to the moon landings.

I'm pretty fucking sure it's a fairly major insult to compare "obeying the law of gravity" to the immense effort, skill and knowledge necessary to put a tiny capusle onto a rock 200,000 miles away and bring it back again. 45 years ago.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:02, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

He had to try to not die as well.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:03, Reply)

only in the same sense that you have to try and not die
in any kind of stunt.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:17, Reply)

It is something that I bear in mind in many aspects of my daily life.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:19, Reply)

And rightly so.
where does your signature come from? It's magnificient.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:20, Reply)

People power
I gave off topic an open forum to post abuse at me, then combined the best results.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:22, Reply)

Not really.
If anything it is a much bigger achievement.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:03, Reply)

you know when he hit the speed of sound
would there have been a sonic boom, like, coming off his own head?

wouldn't that be deafening or something?
(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:05, Reply)

it's ok, google told me the atmosphere was too thin to make a proper sonic boom
i'm pretty sure that makes him gay
(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:06, Reply)

they should fire him out of a massive cannon here on earth matching the speed he went at up there
so we can hear him "boom"
(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:09, Reply)

*shakes room*

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:18, Reply)

erm, how?
it was done 50 years ago (as in jumping from space). How was it an "achievement" in any sense at all?

Unless you mean breaking the sound barrier. I fail to see how breaking the sound barrier in a spacesuit alone is somehow much harder than breaking the sound barrier in a space suit inside a metal box.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:15, Reply)

the spacesuit was from Primark

(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:19, Reply)

now, that's an achievement.
trying to get down to earth fast enough before the shoddy stitching comes undone.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:19, Reply)

Unlike the moon landings, Felix had to raise £400 for Children in Need.
Otherwise he'd have had to pay to do his jump.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:08, Reply)

I'd have liked to see him fall from that height in to a bathtub full of baked beans

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:14, Reply)

His spacesuit should have been furry
and had a spotty eyepatch.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:18, Reply)