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It apparently happens frequently. it apparently now happens with the chinese air force as well. but this thing that happened on monday, it was a little bit beyond the pale, because this russian fighter jet flew up to the much larger american spy plane, flew up at a high rate of speed and apparently it closed to within five feet of the american plane. five feet. do you want to know how far five feet is? i measured. it's this far, between these two. five feet. that's how close it got. i got a tape measure. that's my wing span. the u.s. military called that five-foot approach from the russian fig...

Water sport. kite tubing. it's a cross between water skiing and, well, flying. >> basically after a certain speed the kite tube will gain lift and fly behind the boat. >> soon chris invites his friends to the lake to try out his new toy. >> chris called me up one day and said, hey, i got this kite tube. you sit on it kind of like a jet ski and it has a 15-foot wing span, and you can actually get, you know, 10, 20, 30 feet of air. i was like, count me in. >> what really excited me about kite tubing was the adrenaline rush i knew would come from it that looked amazingly fun. >> one by one, they ...

It's a cross between water skiing and, well, flying. >> basically after a certain speed the kite tube will gain lift and fly behind the boat. >> soon chris invites his friends to the lake to try out his new toy. >> chris called me up one day and said, hey, i got this kite tube. you sit on it kind of like a jet ski and it has a 15-foot wing span, and you can actually get, you know, 10, 20, 30 feet of air. i was like, count me in. >> what really excited me about kite tubing was the adrenaline rush i knew would come from it that looked amazingly fun. >> one by one, they all tried to master this s...

>> it's a lot of hard work. someone gave me this piece of advice once and i really believe it. you've never arrived. you've always becoming. so i never really get complacent. i'm always thinking about theheo next thing. >> it sounds like something you would hear in a yoga class. >> but it's true. i'm hopefully going to play another five years. >> i hope so. >> eventually i'll break down and i won't be able to play anymore and i'll have to think about the next phase of my life. >> we've only got a couple seconds left. if you could start swapping your body parts out with robot parts, would you l...

High-altitude test, the goal is to deliver high-speed internet access to remote areas where wired access is difficult to provide. msnbc's jamie is here with all of these details. okay pretty exciting. kind of thrilling. how close is facebook to making this a reality? >> facebook officials said during a press conference on thursday that it's designed and built this drone. it's got the wing span of a boeing 737 but only weighs around 900 pounds. the company says it will beam a laser signal down to earth, where the signal will then provide internet. the company says it's now ready for testing. go...