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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 6:12 pm
Hard to believe this is real. All the fool needs to spend is a few hundred dollars for a commercial airline ticket anywhere and get to at least 35,000'. For the money he is talking about, he could charter a joyride on a business jet like the Cessna Citation X which can reach over 50,000'. From that altitude, the curvature is slight but obvious.
Shit like this honestly worries me. The recent election of Trump convinces me more than ever that stupidity is no joke. It isn't harmless, it isn't funny. It's dangerous. Idiots can vote and thank's to the internet, they influence other idiots who can do the same.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 9:22 pm
LOL, are those hot water heaters strapped to the rocket for his steam propulsion?
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 10:09 pm
I see no mention of how this remarkable craft will lose decent velocity in order to achieve touchdown back on earth.
I strongly suspect it will involve litho breaking.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 10:21 pm
He's in California. Maybe he's chosen Death Valley.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 10:21 pm
The 'trick' would be to bail out prior to impact and let the rocket body hit first, and then traverse the debris plume for an enhanced braking effect compared to ordinary air, and then lightly touching down on the ground.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 10:33 pm
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Who are you, that you are so wise the ways of science?
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 10:39 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 10:21 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: The 'trick' would be to bail out prior to impact and let the rocket body hit first, and then traverse the debris plume for an enhanced braking effect compared to ordinary air, and then lightly touching down on the ground.
Sounds like something the coyote would pull off in his endless pursuit of the road runner.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 10:54 pm
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“It’s scary as hell, but none of us are getting out of this world alive. I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.”
Not even that is true. It is said this has been done as early as the 16th century.
