Salt Lake City – 36-year old hang glider and paragliding professional Thomas “Infinite Tom” Bird, who is known for accomplishing great distances on his hang glider, did not expect to become a victim of the impossible: After a typical noon hang gliding with his troop, his hang glider started to lift off higher than expected with him- and the man was soaring thousands of feet into the sky before the eyes of his fellow sportsmen.
Eventually, Infinite Tom reached an altitude where he could only be observed with binoculars. After his friends called emergency services, the services dispatched a whole team of analysts and aerial experts to take measurements of his trajectory. As they realized that his altitude has been gradually increasing to a point where he got higher than the SR-71 Blackbird can fly, the potential rescue team came to the realization that Tom wsa about to leave the earth’s atmosphere. While the ground team was observing and recording the whole spectacle, Tom actually left the earth’s atmosphere entirely – and drifted off into outer space indefinitely!
As the NASA was called for further assistance, they dispatched a small, secret rocket device that would track and follow “Infinite Tom” on his unintentional journey into space, but he has already been found unresponsive and turned into a clump of ice while he was gliding indefinitely into outer space. The NASA is trying to recover him by using a special kind of grapple hook, but the chances that Infinite Tom could break into small ice cubes if handled incorrectly are too high. The rescue attempt is currently still ongoing as long as NASA’s small rocket does not reach its maximum flight range.
