Here’s a video of a soldier jumping out of an airplane and solving a Rubik’s Cube

Paul Szoldra
Mar 31, 2018 2:42 AM PDT
1 minute read
Here’s a video of a soldier jumping out of an airplane and solving a Rubik’s Cube

SUMMARY

Jumping out of an airplane can get kind of boring, so sometimes you need to bring along something to keep your mind occupied during the parachute ride down. That’s what happened in a video posted to YouTube last month, which appears to …

Jumping out of an airplane can get kind of boring, so sometimes you need to bring along something to keep your mind occupied during the parachute ride down.


That's what happened in a video posted to YouTube last month, which appears to show an airborne soldier solving a Rubik's cube while under canopy. It's strangely mesmerizing to watch as the ground nears, and the soldier manages to figure it out seconds before touching down.

The video description has very little detail however, so it's hard to say where this came from or whether it's even legit.

In the Washington Post, Dan Lamothe writes:

The video has generated a lot of questions. On the Facebook page "Do You Even Jump?" users questioned whether it actually could have been a jump by an active-duty U.S. soldier, considering he stays airborne for about 2 1/2 minutes. A traditional static-line jump carried out from a C-130 military transport plane from a height of about 2,100 or 2,200 feet would have been over much faster, they said. The jumper also appears to jump from a civilian plane using a European parachute, raising the prospect he isn't American, others added.

The video also appeared on Reddit and YouTube, where one person questioned whether the video is fake.

Over in this Reddit thread, the poster says it was a British paratrooper. Whether that's true or not, we're not sure.

Either way, it's a cool video. Watch (and learn):

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