In response to Ethan's weatherballoon iphone post:
this is the original. Joseph Kittinger is one helluvan American. The point of the skydive was to determine if humans could perform and survive a high altitude ejection.
I love the little things that people do to make something really really special. In this case, they had a plaque attached to the gondola entrance that read "This is the highest step in the world."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08X5jFSCZw
(there are also several videos of it set to epic music)
I also posted this to show that everything has an antecedent. In this case it is quite literal.
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