DJ Charlie Sloth perfectly chilled his vodka drink by blasting a bottle into space – although he had to hunt around a field to find where it crashed before he could drink it. The former Radio One DJ strapped the flavored Au Vodka bottle to a giant helium balloon with a GPS tracker before releasing it into the sky from a field in Sheffield.
Footage of the stunt shows the bottle gliding “21 miles” through the clouds. The DJ can be seen getting into a car and tracking down the golden bottle before its balloon pops into the planet’s stratosphere.
When it falls to earth, the GPS tracker breaks and the bottle separates from the device, forcing Charlie to search a field in the East Riding of Yorkshire for about an hour before finding it. The excited DJ says “it’s so cold, oh my god” before twisting the lid, mixing it with lemonade and declaring it tastes “out of this world”.
Charlie said: “As it goes, it’s a pretty long-winded way of making sure your drink is perfectly chilled so it’s not something I’ll make a habit of.
“We just wanted to see if it would taste different when it came down to earth, but when we launched it we were worried we’d never see the bottle again. It was really exciting to follow it with the GPS and when it appeared we had to move quickly to ensure we could make it to the landing site.
“After all that work, we couldn’t believe it when the GPS signal died and the bottle itself detached from the rest of the device, but luckily we knew what field it was in.
“We spent about an hour walking around looking for the golden glow of the bottle in the long grass thinking we were going crazy. Luckily we saw it and when I touched it I couldn’t believe how cold it was.
