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By Robert T. Gonzalez May 23, 2012 2:05 PM

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Watch this guy become the first person in history to safely land a skydive sans chute

Watch this guy become the first person in history to safely land a skydive sans chute WHERE WE'RE GOING, WE DON'T NEED PARACHUTES! Oh — but we will need cardboard boxes to break the fall. Lots and lots of cardboard boxes. Eighteen thousand, six hundred boxes. To be exact. [skyNEWS]

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