Things you want to do before you die.

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What do you guys want to do before you die? travel the world? fight a tiger? threesome with Asian twins?

The one thing I really would like to do (other than the asian twins) is parachute from 102,800 feet like Joe Kittinger did. that high up you can see the curvature of the earth unaided.

Videos:

Dicovery Science clip

Music video by Boards of Canada featuring some better footage and nice music (first 2 and a half minutes)


Wiki:
Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) was a pilot and career military officer in the United States Air Force. He is most famous for his participation in Project Man High and Project Excelsior. While on project Man High he became the first person to see the curvature of the earth unaided.

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Captain Kittinger was then assigned to the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward", a name given to the project by Colonel Stapp), as part of research into high altitude bailout, he made a series of three parachute jumps wearing a pressurized suit, from a helium balloon with an open gondola. The first, from 76,400 feet (23,287 m) in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm, the G factor calculated at his extremities was over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). Three weeks later he jumped again from 74,700 feet (22,769 m). For that return jump Kittinger was awarded the Leo Stevens parachute medal. On August 16, 1960 he jumped from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). He was in freefall for 4½ minutes and reached a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, causing his hand to swell. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere. [1]

According to Kittinger, he broke the speed of sound during that famous highest jump. This may be debatable, as other references give his peak speed at 614 (988 km/h) or 618 (994 km/h) miles per hour, or mach 0.9. Nevertheless, he occasionally ribs Chuck Yeager about being the first man to break the speed of sound.
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what about you guys?
 
Find an alien and kick it in the face. Then post it on youtube and myspace.
 
Build a house!
Paint a self portrait!

.. Heh.

On the serious side, I'm not sure if there's any one special thing. I'm pretty happy just moving right along persuing my hobbies.
 
learn to play an instrument, learn atleast one more language, publish something, learn to whistle really loudly, beat the shit out of somebody.
 
Watch the Aurora Borealis, preferably with a girl by my side. And, if by some chance, Explosions in the Sky is playing in the background, I would not complain whatsoever :)
 
Own a cat.

Get my & my friends club/bar night off the ground.

Own a nice apartment.

Form a band and release an EP/singles :)

That's just so far..
 
It just so happens that I made a "To Do Before Death" list not two years ago.

  • Play in a band for a huge rock concert
  • Eat a shark
  • Get my driver's license (it's coming in the mail!)
  • Not die. Ever.
  • Become a card-carrying Communist
  • Live on Mars
  • Win the lottery
  • Invent something everyone needs
  • Marry someone... eventually...
  • Have kids that don't cry and poop ALL THE FREAKIN TIME
 
JNightshade said:
Watch the Aurora Borealis, preferably with a girl by my side. And, if by some chance, Explosions in the Sky is playing in the background, I would not complain whatsoever :)
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Aurora borealis aren't like fireworks or some sort of event. It lasts many hours and doesn't move a whole lot. It's more like going to see Niagara falls. I used to live in the number one place to see it, Tromso, Norway.
 
Lose my virginnity on a beach at sundown.

But I'll settle for less.
 
Shippi said:
-Learn to fly either a plane or a helicopter (or both!)
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+1

Flying stuff is awesome, I think I'd prefer to fly a helicopter though. It's even my favourite thing in BF2 ^_^
 
Threesome. (y)

Being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want would be a nice goal. But before I die? I'd like... say... to have enough money to just throw at everything and it'd move out of my way.

Also, I don't know... experience New York in the Winter. And Tokyo. In fact, I want to be fluent in Japanese and travel Japan.
 
Too many things to list here.

One big thing is that I want to be happy before I die. Genuinely happy.


Some other specific things too... visit antartica, siberia... finish learning russian. So many things, I could go on and on.
 
Getting launched out of a cannon and splashing into a 100 metre deep swimming pool at 60 miles an hour.

I have a strange love of plunging into pools. I don't know why. :|
 
bigburpco said:
Getting launched out of a cannon and splashing into a 100 metre deep swimming pool at 60 miles an hour.

I have a strange love of plunging into pools. I don't know why. :|
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Only 60mph? Go for the terminal velocity man!
 
*splorch*

Erm... no thanks mate.

But then again, could do it just before I die... okay fine. Maybe. I hope I don't die in mid-air though.

Oh yeah. I'd also like to see poop on a bird's head for once. That'd be intriguing.
 
pvtbones, my psychic powers tell me <<mwaaaaarmmmhhh>> you read DamnInteresting.com. Right?
 
Bugger, I was browsing older articles there the other day and read one about Kittinger. When I saw your post, I got mixed up in my head, thinking that the DA article was the latest one and that you'd just read it... I'll shut up now.
 
I want to pull a prank on the whole world; become a super saiyan; surf a high speed train; survive a fall on concrete with terminal velocity; fire a rocket launcher at a building; enjoy css; give €10.000 to someone I like; make an awesome game; be responsible for a scientific breakthrough; win the lottery by accident; crash all the pcs at school and get away with it; crash all the pcs in the world and get away with it; win a gaming tournament; have the highest quality speaker system in the world; get my cs (computer science, not counterstrike) teacher fired; enjoy food made in a wok; have sex with a beautiful girl that likes me too; fake my death and hide for a year and then appear to a few people I know; use chloroform on someone; discover an error in an IQ-test; be invited to a nice party; punch a hacker on css in the face over the internet; find scientific proof that germans suck; fire a lasergun; make my dad proud.

I probably forgot a few things.
 
Own a house, start a family, and all while being Financially Stable.
Be the top PvP'er in WoW.
Get a freakin Epic drop in WoW.
 
Kids, money, big house etc and to build an awesome home cinema complete with electric red curtain, a corridor with movie posters leading to it, and a popcorn machine.
 
Things I want to do before I die? one thing & one thing only....FTW BABY YEAH!!!!!! *Acts like Austin Powers*
 
Write a very sucksessful book/series.
Can't really think of anything else ATM.
 
ComradeBadger said:
Form a band and release an EP/singles :)
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I'm in Badgey my love.

I guess I'd like to properly learn an instrument since nothing ever really got off the ground. Would help with the band thing too since I can't sing very well :p

Wear a poncho and sombrero for a full day.

That's about it I guess.
 
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