Flat Earther builds rocket to prove Earth flat. Dies trying to prove it.

[red_zr24x4]

Nope. This one wasn’t us.

^Don't listen to him. I've never seen him at any of the meetings...

Oh, Snap!

 

[MCgrease08]

I can't help but think of the Grateful Dead song, The Other One.

Spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose
It rainbow spirals round and round, it trembles and explodes
It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away
But the heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day

Coming, coming, coming around
Coming around, coming around, in a circle
Coming, coming, coming around
Coming around, coming around, in a circle

Escaping through the lily fields, I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began
There was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land

Coming, coming, coming around
Coming around, coming around, in a circle
Coming, coming, coming around
Coming around, coming around, in a circle

 

[cbhausen]

So, what was unhappy about this outcome?

A man died??

 

[actaeon277]

Dang.
I just noticed a spelling error in the title.
I shouldn't start a post from my phone.

 

[tv1217]

Guess he's the flat one now

 

[cbhausen]

Maybe y’all should see if Mad Mike Hughes was REALLY a flat Earther...

Maybe it was a publicity stunt to land sponsorship...

If you’re energetic enough to post here you’re energetic enough to do your own research.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I think he was in his 60s.

Strom Thurmond would chime in here, if he was on INGO, and not dead.

 

[femurphy77]

Maybe he thought if he hit the ground hard enough he could punch through to the underside?

Don't you know anything, China's on the other side and you REALLY don't want to dig through to THERE right now!

 

[HoughMade]

Maybe y’all should see if Mad Mike Hughes was REALLY a flat Earther...

Maybe it was a publicity stunt to land sponsorship...

If you’re energetic enough to post here you’re energetic enough to do your own research.

I'm not entirely sure there are any real flat earthers. The whole "movement" has "massive troll" written all over it.

 

[JettaKnight]

Maybe y’all should see if Mad Mike Hughes was REALLY a flat Earther...

Maybe it was a publicity stunt to land sponsorship...

If you’re energetic enough to post here you’re energetic enough to do your own research.

Seems like that's the case.



I didn't watch the video posted here; not big on armchair You Tubers (no offense).


Here's a link to a story: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...rash-trying-to-prove-earth-is-flat-2020-02-23


Here's a older story about his first rocket, and claim he'll run for governor: https://apnews.com/870b745abdfe41df...cket-scientist-blasts-off-into-California-sky


Here's video of the launch, and impact: https://nypost.com/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-fatal-rocket-crash-caught-on-video/

 

[JettaKnight]

I'm not entirely sure there are any real flat earthers. The whole "movement" has "massive troll" written all over it.

That's part of it. Part of it is rebellion, part of it is groupthink and tribalism, then the rest... various reason.


Behind the Curve is a good movie that shines a light on these folks.

 

[2A_Tom]

I'm not entirely sure there are any real flat earthers. The whole "movement" has "massive troll" written all over it.

I met one once, A muslin from Pakistan, Who had flown to the United Stated. I am convinced he believed it in spite of seeing the curvature of the earth from the air. He claimed it was an optical illusion.

 

[actaeon277]

Whichever Mod fixed the title, thanks.

 

[Brad69]

This kinda stuff has happened before!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight

I know a dude that seems sane until he starts on the “flat earth” thing the moon is not a hologram!

 

[Thor]

Yup, and now it's a regular thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_ballooning

 

[Cameramonkey]

Yup, and now it's a regular thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_ballooning

I've always wanted to try this. Except instead of jettisoning the balloons one by one and pray my descent rate wasnt too high, just jettison myself at altitude. I've still got my sport parachute from my skydiving days.

 

[Thor]

I've always wanted to try this. Except instead of jettisoning the balloons one by one and pray my descent rate wasnt too high, just jettison myself at altitude. I've still got my sport parachute from my skydiving days.

I'm sure every one in the National Airspace System will appreciate you abandoning this at altitude for the unknown future...

 

[Cameramonkey]

I'm sure every one in the National Airspace System will appreciate you abandoning this at altitude for the unknown future...

One of MANY reasons why I never tried. Didnt want a Seinfeld Junior Mints type incident. "In other news, a lawn chair was sucked into the #1 engine on a FedEx DC-10 at 43,000 over Indiana today..."

 

[2A_Tom]

Use a sling instead of a lawn chair.

 

[Thor]

One of MANY reasons why I never tried. Didnt want a Seinfeld Junior Mints type incident. "In other news, a lawn chair was sucked into the #1 engine on a FedEx DC-10 at 43,000 over Indiana today..."

I work the National Airspace Process, we have to deal with all sorts of folks that fit into special categories with the FAA, cluster balloons, regular balloons, space going balloons...apparently "see and avoid" only counts for some folks.

There's a company out west that wants to take folks by balloon to the edge of space in a canister then deflate and jettison the balloon and come back down by para-sail. As cool as this initially sounded there's he whole issue of de-conflicting you with every other user of the airspace from the surface to space while on the way back down you have the para-sail and a huge fluttering rag that could drape itself across anything it came across. Not necessarily a good idea but when folks are sporting a hundred grand or more a ticket the politics becomes sticky. I suppose we'll have to wait until a few hundred people die to trace the money back to who was responsible (like that will happen).

This is very similar to the "Google Loon" project where they want to orbit the planet with balloons to provide internet to all...Space X may have trumped them.