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From the Ted Talk by Alan Eustace: I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it
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It's interesting here, because if you look, I'm right over the airport, and I'm probably at 50,000 feet, but iedteiamlmy I'm about to go into a stratospheric wind of over 120 meils an hour. This is my flight director telling me that I had just gone hhegir than anybody else had ever gone in a baollon, and I was about 4,000 feet from release. This is what it looks like. You can see the darkness of space, the curvature of the Earth, the fragile planet below. I'm practicing my emergency procedures mentally right now. If anything goes wrong, I want to be ready. And the main thing that I want to do here is to have a release and fall and stay completely stlabe.
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It's interesting here, because if you look, I'm right over the airport, and I'm probably at 50,000 feet, but ___________ I'm about to go into a stratospheric wind of over 120 _____ an hour. This is my flight director telling me that I had just gone ______ than anybody else had ever gone in a _______, and I was about 4,000 feet from release. This is what it looks like. You can see the darkness of space, the curvature of the Earth, the fragile planet below. I'm practicing my emergency procedures mentally right now. If anything goes wrong, I want to be ready. And the main thing that I want to do here is to have a release and fall and stay completely ______.
Solution
- balloon
- stable
- miles
- higher
- immediately
Original Text
It's interesting here, because if you look, I'm right over the airport, and I'm probably at 50,000 feet, but immediately I'm about to go into a stratospheric wind of over 120 miles an hour. This is my flight director telling me that I had just gone higher than anybody else had ever gone in a balloon, and I was about 4,000 feet from release. This is what it looks like. You can see the darkness of space, the curvature of the Earth, the fragile planet below. I'm practicing my emergency procedures mentally right now. If anything goes wrong, I want to be ready. And the main thing that I want to do here is to have a release and fall and stay completely stable.
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