I was reading "The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science" earlier and this was one of the articles. This guy is AMAZING. He makes me feel like a little girl.


John Paul Stapp, Scientist and Human Bullet

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While other so-called heroes run around saving useless things like kittens and "civilians," John Paul Stapp looked at jet fighter pilots and thought, "Those poor guys need my help." Yes, the manliest profession in the world since "Grizzly Bear Rodeo" was outlawed, and World War II veteran Dr. Stapp was the man who saved them.

He served as a flight surgeon in WWII, and after the war performed critical research on the effects of sudden deceleration on the human body. His human body. He used a rocket armed with four rocket engines and a total thrust of 6,000 pounds. The wider scientific community believed the human body could not survive more than 18 Gs of deceleration--Stapp hit 35. Because he goddamn could.

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Above: Science

He became the fastest man in the world, moving faster than a bullet--632 miles per hour. In 1954 he decelerated from 120 miles per hour to 0 in 1.4 seconds, and gained two huge black eyes from the force of his own slammed-forward eyeballs punching him on the inside of the face. The impact blinded him for two days, during which we must imagine his response was to walk around and simply dare the world to put things in his way. Oh, and he also broke his back, arm, wrist, lost six fillings and the icing on the cake? He got a hernia.

His response? He built a bigger rocket.

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More Rockets = More Science

He lived to 89 and his research has saved lives around the world ever since. Oh, and in case Dr. Stapp hasn't made a mockery of your life's work and achievements just yet: The whole time he he was slinging his own body around like a fleshy cannon shell, he was also running an after-hours clinic for the families of servicemen at the base where he worked, making house calls and providing free medical care. Every night.

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Yeah, you sit up straighter now when you're reading about a real man, you loser.



Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_16301_the-6-most-badass-stunts-ever-pulled-in-name-science.html

The writer sounds like an annoying punk.

But basically his accomplishment was that he broke record speed to reach people in time fo surgery? Well that's pretty cool...but it's not anything major like the invention of light, Internet, agriculture etc

^ his projects were on the effects of rapid deceleration and has apparently greatly impacted medical knowledge about impact.

Isn't that mainly physics?

ITT: Ahmed derping

He's amazing because he put his own life and safety at risk to finish his research. It's a lot more than modern scientists would do.

Ehh...nuclear scientists. Chemists lose 10 years of their life on average.

They don't go to those kinds of extremes. Now everyone uses test dummies.

Stapp > Modern scientists

You can't use dummies for chemistry

I know, they use puppets. But whatever.

...Oh never mind you silly goose.