I always appreciate when a daredevil dies doing what he loves.
Seriously, these people don’t want to die in bed. They want to live, live, live and then blink out.
I’ve seen too many people withering away in hospital beds.
"On 13 July 2016, Facebook deleted his fan page of 1.5 million fans. Baumgartner subsequently claimed that he must have become "too uncomfortable" for "political elites".[48]"
Because of his pro-right viewpoints. For one thing, it's slightly amusing considering Zuckerberg's own politically convenient pirouettes on politics and management. Secondly, it reminds me why the argument was very much on the mark that social media in those days absolutely did work hard to shut don all kinds of opinions that didn't fit with dominant groupthink.
It's idiotic that a famous figure should be subject to such a deletion as soon as they deviate from a specific progressive discourse, even if one disagrees with its opposite in so many ways.
I guess people generally try to maximize reward per lifetime. Some people try to increase their lifetime, albeit with smaller reward per unit time (eating their spinach). A few rare people try to maximize reward per unit time, even at the cost of a longer life. Felix lived to 56, skydiving all the way. Although he died younger than the average Austrian, he probably experienced greater sum reward. I suppose the gamble is that with his lifestyle, he could have died in his teens - in which case the sum of his reward would be lower than an "eat your spinach" 80 year old.
I wonder if you could cross compare: perhaps the sum reward of Felix's 56 fun years is about the same as a Greenland shark's 400 boring years.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Stratos
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/projects/red-bull-stratos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYw4meRWGd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raiFrxbHxV0
https://archive.today/e0OGy
not cool
> then lost control of his paraglider, crashing into a hotel pool and lightly injuring a young female employee.
Still not great, but it seems like a rush of water knocking over someone, not quite striking which sounds like it would be life threatening.
After CBT he was able to tolerate the suit and complete the jump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/skydiver-felix-baumgartner-ove...
"On 13 July 2016, Facebook deleted his fan page of 1.5 million fans. Baumgartner subsequently claimed that he must have become "too uncomfortable" for "political elites".[48]"
Because of his pro-right viewpoints. For one thing, it's slightly amusing considering Zuckerberg's own politically convenient pirouettes on politics and management. Secondly, it reminds me why the argument was very much on the mark that social media in those days absolutely did work hard to shut don all kinds of opinions that didn't fit with dominant groupthink.
It's idiotic that a famous figure should be subject to such a deletion as soon as they deviate from a specific progressive discourse, even if one disagrees with its opposite in so many ways.
For some people this is inspiring.
I wonder if you could cross compare: perhaps the sum reward of Felix's 56 fun years is about the same as a Greenland shark's 400 boring years.