You will have seen, by now, the clips of the Austrian extreme sports fanatic Felix Baumgartner, who plans to break the record for the highest manned balloon flight (120,000 feet) and then leap from said balloon while drinking a can of Red Bull.
All right, that last bit is made up, but only just. Red Bull is the sponsor of the mission, which will see Baumgartner undertake the highest freefall and see him become the first person to break the speed of sound without the protection of an aeroplane. This means that if he wants, he can yell something at 100,000 feet ("I must be mad!") and then actually overtake his words, possibly reaching out to alter them ("Mad be, I must" – to give it a kind of Shakespearean feel to suit the drama of the occasion), thus setting a new record for high altitude proof-reading.
the man who would fall
You will have seen, by now, the clips of the Austrian extreme sports fanatic Felix Baumgartner, who plans to break the record for the highest manned balloon flight (120,000 feet) and then leap from said balloon while drinking a can of Red Bull.
All right, that last bit is made up, but only just. Red Bull is the sponsor of the mission, which will see Baumgartner undertake the highest freefall and see him become the first person to break the speed of sound without the protection of an aeroplane. This means that if he wants, he can yell something at 100,000 feet ("I must be mad!") and then actually overtake his words, possibly reaching out to alter them ("Mad be, I must" – to give it a kind of Shakespearean feel to suit the drama of the occasion), thus setting a new record for high altitude proof-reading.
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Don't show me this again.