Congratulations to Felix Baumgartner and Red Bull Stratos

Congratulations to Felix Baumgartner and Red Bull Stratos for their amazing and exciting achievement. One is reminded of what Ayn Rand said of Apollo 11:

[N]o one could doubt that we had seen an achievement of man in his capacity as a rational being—an achievement of reason, of logic, of mathematics, of total dedication to the absolutism of reality.

Watch highlights of Baumgartner’s awe-inspiring feat below:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/FHtvDA0W34I

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Joshua (John M.) Lipana was, until his death in 2013, an assistant editor of The Objective Standard Blog and a freelance writer based in the Philippines. His writings appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Free Enterprise,Capitalism Magazine, NewsReal Blog, and The American Thinker.

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