Over the course of her fearless career, extreme action specialist Elizabeth Streb has pushed the limits of the human body. She's jumped through broken glass, toppled from great heights and built gizmos to provide a boost along the way. Backed by footage of her work, Streb reflects on her lifelong quest to defy gravity and fly the only way a human can — by mastering the landing.
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Physics is one of the primary reasons we don’t fly
This individual is now telling us we can do it if we believe which means Fax don’t mean anything reality is set aside it’s about achieving things without using science
Now it makes sense she’s a performance artist little wacky little strange I don’t understand why she’s on Ted
She seems to put her own name in the same sentence with newton very telling
Also one of the main reason what we call flight today is more accurately ballistics.
Its Newtonian physics and not relevant now at all. Quantum physics says you can do everything that your mind believes.. you can defeat your mind and fly..
*Superman wants to know your location*
*Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.*
Well said
*Thank you*
No
Navigate In The Vast Oceans, Reap Boundless Bounty, Let Stars Guide You Home…
How about you face reality and realize that you need to fit into society by pulling your own weight, earn money and live like you’re damn supposed to. The world isn’t a disney movie where everything is possible and everything is free.
This was a waste of time.
Nope! Learned something new and weird
Everything you’ve ever done in your life has led to this moment where you are reading this comment
no
*Falling elegantly is not flying lmao.*
Yusuf h
What Woody said to Buzz!
Streb looks like a goth girl thats been goth since the 70s and still teaches baby bats how to be goth.
This is not flying. This is throwing your body to the ground
so i just wasted like 9,15 minutes of my life on watching a video that was supposed to hype me up about stuff that lets the human fly but this is acrobatics
Learn to speed up the video. I only wasted half the time. >:)
Thanks for the comment, I won’t waste my 9.15 minutes on the video.
its about circus performing not flight!
lamest vid ever
Falling does not defy gravity and is not flying.
Bungee jumping does not defy gravity and is not flying.
Hanging by a rope around your waist does not defy gravity and is not flying.
I thought TED was better than clickbaits.
Hanging by a rope around does not end gravity either but at least you won’t suffer from Ted clickbait anymore
Amazing! Her decendents will be the first people to develop wings!!
Shut up, Lamarck.
People like her shouldn´t design events
If you came to see someone fly then you will be dissapointed. Is just a person talking about falling and acrobatics.
That’s called a concussion.
This isn’t flying, it is falling with style.
Throw your body to the ground and forget you’re falling.
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Falling with Style
“It was clear to me and to Newton”…. Welllll that escalated quickly. After that: “you shouldn’t take yourself so seriously” hahahha
Keep dreaming lil girl
**Pops narcissistic bubble**