On Sunday afternoon I called a friend to see if he wanted to go shopping. He informed me that he was watching the jump. I flipped out, hung up the phone, and sprinted down to my coffee shop, which has CNN on most days.
CNN wasn't showing the jump when I tuned in. For a moment I was scared Felix and co. had scrapped the jump again.
I think it’s important for you to get into my knowledge-starved headspace here: I had no way of knowing if they’d called it off until CNN told me. I didn’t even remember the jump until the phone call, I was at a coffee shop so I couldn’t change the channel, and asking someone else to find the info would be violating the rules of my experiment. So my eyes just stayed locked on the screen, hoping. I was...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/16/3507472/offline-news-in-freefall-felix-baumgartner-paul-miller
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