Felix Baumgartner: Bravest man in the world, or most overrated?

Felix Baumgartner now holds the world record for highest and fastest free-fall. With the world watching, he jumped from a balloon from over 24 miles above the earth, breaking the sound barrier, and landed like it was nothing.

Dori thinks that Felix must have nerves of steel to fall so far so fast, but Jake found the event underwhelming after it was initially delayed from its Tuesday launch.

Although Jake has never been skydiving, he was very critical of the jump and said that he bets that he could break those records after just a few weeks of training.

“When it happens on a Sunday and only eight million people tune in, it was kind of underwhelming,” said Jake. “You couldn’t understand what he was saying; the coverage – I thought – was really bad. And then he just falls and then he pulls his chute.”

Dori, on the other hand, has been skydiving and bungee jumping before so he understood how harrowing the jump from space actually must have been.

“The only I wasn’t impressed with was that he did not break the record for the longest free-fall,” said Dori, “which was set by Joe Kittinger back in 1960, because his visor was fogged up.”

Dori and Jake want you to decide: is Felix the bravest man on earth, or was his “fall” from space overrated?

What you’re saying on Facebook:

Kyle Sargent Lets not forget this man jumped from space, and landed on his feet!

Christopher Ambler He hit the chute pre-record ON PURPOSE. It was his intention to leave Kittinger’s one record intact as a show of respect.

Christina Beyer Mills I watched the entire thing and was fascinated by it. Maybe not the bravest man in the world, but still pretty impressive to me. Did you see that spin he went into and then still managed to land on his feet?

Blue Lytes I can hear the sound of Jack (Jake) LOUDLY CLUCKING all the way in Olympia. If its not such a big deal, lets see JACK JUMP from 125,000 feet.

Kathleen G Neely Bravest people in the world run into burning buildings or throw themselves on grenades, or step into domestic violence situations to help people. This guy had money and lots of help to plan something nuts. took bravery yes, but manufactured and backed-up bravery, not what is IMHO true bravery.

Kim Taylor As someone who was alive during the Challenger explosion, I recognize how dangerous this could have been if something had gone wrong. Therefore, Jake is wrong.