I know, I know. You came to With Leather, saw a sorta-sports-related story being animated and thought it was from Next Media Animation in Taiwan. You click expecting Felix Baumgartner to get shoved out of his balloon by a panda, clip an angel version of Tim Tebow on the way down and land on a bed of spikes.

But no, not today. Today, we share CGI dramatizations for science.

Watch the CGI clip for Felix Baumgartner’s World Record Supersonic Freefall.

Baumgartner reached an estimated speed of 1,357.6 km/h or 843.6 mph(Mach 1.25) jumping from the stratosphere, which when certified will make him the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall and set several other records while delivering valuable data for future space exploration.

The only real question about Baumgartner’s jump (now that “will he die” and “omg, is he going to fall out of space and die” have been answered) is, “When are we going to see the GoPro footage?” They put a camera in his helmet for the jump, right? They put GoPro cameras on pro wrestlers and dogs playing fetch these days, of COURSE if a guy was going to execute a corporately-sponsored jump to his Space Doom they’re going to outfit him with a dozen recording devices.

Make it happen, Red Bull. Or at least get somebody to speak in Taiwanese over your info videos.

[via DoobyBrain]

India's Olympic Shooting Team is out of ammunition because the government stopped providing it, and now the members of the team are threatening to boycott the upcoming games in Beijing:

The nation's leading medal prospects for the August Games are in shooting, with Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore fancied to bring home a gold medal after winning a double trap silver four years ago in Athens. However, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) secretary Baljit Singh Sethi said a shortage of ammunition for air weapon competitors was hampering preparations . . . "I don't think it will be worthwhile sending the shooters to the Olympics. The damage has been done. I will take the issue up in our next general body meeting next month," Sethi said. "It's a pity that the shooters were the best medal hopes and they are treated so shabbily."

I don't know too much about India, but I did watch a little movie called Gandhi and wasn't the message of that film nonviolence? You don't need guns and ammo to prove your worth, man. Remember how the main character – I can't recall his name, the bald dude – trekked over deserts to get the spice or the water to make some kind of point about the unity of the universe? Oh wait, I believe I'm thinking of Dune. God that movie sucked. -KD