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Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 4:46 pm
What are the chances this guy dies?
Quote: Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, said his stunt will be the first phase of the flat-Earth space program, sponsored by Research Flat Earth, a group that believes Earth is, well, flat.
The rocket should travel about a mile at a speed of roughly 500 mph.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/2...-says.html
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 4:57 pm
What the hell??
I haven't read the article yet. Will read.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:02 pm
He's going to take a rocket up to prove the idea of a flat earth...
... but will wind up proving natural selection instead.
Why doesn't this guy just mount a camera to his rocket? This is dangerous.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:04 pm
So basically, when he shows that the Earth still looks flat from a mile up, it completely disproves the curvature of the Earth seen from about 1200 times higher. That's as logical as taking a spirit level on a commercial flight to prove the aircraft doesn't have to keep pitching down, and thousands of times more expensive. If there's people out there with the money to waste on shit like this, let's get them contributing to something worthwhile. Like education, perhaps.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:05 pm
It might be easier to keep sailing towards the horizon, just a thought.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:06 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 4:46 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: What are the chances this guy dies?
Quote: Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, said his stunt will be the first phase of the flat-Earth space program, sponsored by Research Flat Earth, a group that believes Earth is, well, flat.
The rocket should travel about a mile at a speed of roughly 500 mph.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/2...-says.html
The dude seriously wants to just travel 1800 feet to prove earth is flat? C'mon, he can just visit the Burj Khalifa and he'd be higher than that
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:07 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 5:04 pm)Cyberman Wrote: So basically, when he shows that the Earth still looks flat from a mile up, it completely disproves the curvature of the Earth seen from about 1200 times higher. That's as logical as taking a spirit level on a commercial flight to prove the aircraft doesn't have to keep pitching down, and thousands of times more expensive. If there's people out there with the money to waste on shit like this, let's get them contributing to something worthwhile. Like education, perhaps.
He's only shooting for 1,800 feet, 545 meters.
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:10 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 5:05 pm)Cod Wrote: It might be easier to keep sailing towards the horizon, just a thought.
No, because apparently according to some schools of thought - and I use both words quite wrongly - the Earth's magnetic field confuses one's compass, such that you only think you're going in a straight line when in 'fact' you're travelling in a huge curve around the circumference.
And anyway, there's that giant fleet of patrol ships assigned to disappear anyone who might stray too close to the ice wall around the rim. IANMTU.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:11 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 5:07 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: He's only shooting for 1,800 feet, 545 meters.
Even worse.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Rocket launch to prove earth is flat
November 23, 2017 at 5:12 pm
(November 23, 2017 at 5:10 pm)Cyberman Wrote: (November 23, 2017 at 5:05 pm)Cod Wrote: It might be easier to keep sailing towards the horizon, just a thought.
No, because apparently according to some schools of thought - and I use both words quite wrongly - the Earth's magnetic field confuses one's compass, such that you only think you're going in a straight line when in 'fact' you're travelling in a huge curve around the circumference.
And anyway, there's that giant fleet of patrol ships assigned to disappear anyone who might stray too close to the ice wall around the rim. IANMTU.
Oh yeah, I forgot about them patrols 
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