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Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com)
A Maine alternative newsweekly just interviewed self-taught rocket scientist "Mad" Mike Hughes, who still believes that the earth is a flat, Frisbee-shaped disc. ("Think about this. Australia -- which is supposedly on the other side of the planet -- is upside down yet they're holding the waters in the ocean. Now how is that happening?") And Mike's got a new way to prove it after his aborted launch attempt in November. An anonymous reader writes:
"One thing I want to clarify is that this rocket was never supposed to prove that the Earth is flat," Hughes tells an interviewer. "I was never going to go high enough to do that." But he will prove it's flat -- with an even riskier stunt. "I have a plan to go 62 miles up to the edge of space. It's going to cost $1.8 million and that could happen within 10 months."
"I'm going to have a balloon built at about $250,000 with $100,000 worth of hydrogen in it. It will lift me up about 20 miles... If I'm unconscious, they can use the controls to bring the balloon back." But if he's still conscious? "Then I'll fire a rocket through the balloon that will pull me up by my shoulders through a truss for 42 miles at 1.5 g's."
It's an awesome plan "if I don't burn up coming back through the atmosphere."
The interviewer asks Hughes a reasonable question. "Wouldn't it be cheaper and less deadly to just try to drill through the Earth to the other side to prove your point?"
"You can't," Hughes answers. "That's another fallacy. The deepest hole ever drilled is seven-and-a-half miles and it was done in Russia. It took 12 years. You cannot drill through this planet. It dulls every drill bit. All the stuff that you learned in school -- that the core is molten nickel -- it's all lies. No one knows what's in the center of the Earth or how deep it is. I'm no expert at anything, but I know that's a fact."
"I'm going to have a balloon built at about $250,000 with $100,000 worth of hydrogen in it. It will lift me up about 20 miles... If I'm unconscious, they can use the controls to bring the balloon back." But if he's still conscious? "Then I'll fire a rocket through the balloon that will pull me up by my shoulders through a truss for 42 miles at 1.5 g's."
It's an awesome plan "if I don't burn up coming back through the atmosphere."
The interviewer asks Hughes a reasonable question. "Wouldn't it be cheaper and less deadly to just try to drill through the Earth to the other side to prove your point?"
"You can't," Hughes answers. "That's another fallacy. The deepest hole ever drilled is seven-and-a-half miles and it was done in Russia. It took 12 years. You cannot drill through this planet. It dulls every drill bit. All the stuff that you learned in school -- that the core is molten nickel -- it's all lies. No one knows what's in the center of the Earth or how deep it is. I'm no expert at anything, but I know that's a fact."
See subject & demand that your government BANS BUMP STOCKS IMMEDIATELY. Banning bump stocks is the ONLY way to prevent future mass shootings like the Las Vegas shooting.
The Vatican doesn't want bump stocks banned & is spending millions of dollars to LOBBY AGAINST banning bump stocks. The VAST FORTUNE of the Vatican was obtained through illicit means including funding wars in Europe. The tradition of using VIOLENCE to grow the wealth of the Vatican is alive and well. Collectively, the Vatican, George Soros, and the NRA, are fighting (figuratively, I hope) to keep them legal. Jesus Christ is ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE.
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you've always been such a generous supplier of uninentional comedy. God knows what would've become of you if it weren't for all those highly educated and skilled H1B workers you suck up every year.
The retard coalition is the biggest Republican constituency left sadly.
It might be even cooler... to launch a balloon from a rocket. You know, if you're a flat-earther.
Something tells me this guy may not be true believer.
What a stupid retard this guy is, my self of steam is so high knowing I'm smarter than at least some one
Is it really necessary to keep posting news about this idiot? I mean at first it was fun and everything, now it's just sad. Stop please.
Just go to the edge and jump off.
...is just a world-class troll. Nothing more.
I'll pitch in $10.
Flat-Earthers make me feel the way I'm sure I make climate alarmists feel, but I believe in science (the process), and I'm willing to put a few bucks towards an independent verification. And maybe a bigger factor is that if a schmuck like this can get to space, that can only mean the day is getting closer when I can too.
See that "Preview" button?
He does not believe the earth is flat. What he believes is that a bunch of stupid people either DO think the earth is flat, or would just be willing to pay to see him die. He is just trying to swindle some cash.
Stop feeding the troll people...
- sigs are stupid
Grammatical and logical perfection!
- "I'm no expert at anything, but I know that's a fact."
That is *definitively* becoming a T-shirt!
This that? That that? This and that? What?
With a few careful observations, you can begin to understand that the
heliocentric model is a lie, and you live on a flat plane.
Science says the tilt of the Earth gives less sunlight to the North this time of year. But have you noticed that the sun also appears weaker, and yellower? The tilt only moves it towards the south, and gives it a shorter, lower track through the sky. But the amount of atmosphere traversed is the same for any light coming up from the horizon -- East or South. So what makes the light itself appear weaker in Winter? There should be the same amount of atmosphere to cross whether the Sun rises due East in the summer, or South-East in the winter.
So why is the winter Sun weak and yellower than the summer sun at the same altitude in the sky?
Have you ever had a hard drive that wasn’t bolted down start moving around
on your desk? Maybe those 10 or 15K RPM drives? How about those drives that
are as big as refrigerators? Did they ever move (not counting movement from seeking)?
If not, you might be living on a flat, stationary Earth. Every spinning hard drive, if
left to move freely, should tend to resist the rotation of the Earth, and therefore sometime during your life, you should have seen a hard drive moving by itself.
How Eclipses Show the Flat Earth
Watch a gimbaled, powered gyroscope spin for 15 minutes. The Earth should have rotated 3.75 degrees. The gyroscope will not move, not even a little, based on your latitude. Watch it for 1 hour, 15 degrees of Earth spin. No movement. Now set it on a platform spinning 15 degrees an hour. Movement!
Solar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/230976895
Corona not shaped in a spherical configuration; orients toward Earth. Corona lines can be observed to move faster than the speed of light. Light of the corona can be observed on the back of the moon. Light of the chromosphere can be observed on the back of the moon. Light of protuberences can be observed on the back of the moon. Sun and Moon same size and near. Wiki: Allais Effect
Lunar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/92378881
Irregular shadow shape, progression. Shadow is black, then changes color to reddish: Shadows don't change color. Moon glow of uneclipsed portion increases as shadow becomes reddish, detail lost. Moon has no rotation(see Nikola Tesla): we always see the same face. Moon emits own light. Craters not from impacts: Too round.
No model of the lunar eclipse correctly captures it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/10/06/why-does-the-moon-turn-red-during-a-lunar-eclipse/
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/scottsdale?iso=20140415
software:Stellarium 0.16.1 Next lunar eclipse: January 30/31, 2018 North America
See subject & watch the Luddite moron contradict himself. He probably doesn't actually believe his MISINFORMATION, but spreads it anyway. It's like the lies that banning bump stocks won't stop mass shootings and that my security software won't protect your computer. If you care about security, demand that your government BANS BUMP STOCKS IMMEDIATELY. Banning bump stocks is the ONLY way to prevent future mass shootings like the Las Vegas shooting.
The Vatican doesn't want bump stocks banned & is spending millions of dollars to LOBBY AGAINST banning bump stocks. The VAST FORTUNE of the Vatican was obtained through illicit means including funding wars in Europe. The tradition of using VIOLENCE to grow the wealth of the Vatican is alive and well. Collectively, the Vatican, George Soros, and the NRA, are fighting (figuratively, I hope) to keep them legal. Jesus Christ is ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE.
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If they 'proved' the Earth is a sphere centuries before flight or space, then you can prove it right back to flat just as easily. See my other post for how.
And bump into the ceiling, space is a lie.
I don't want to read posts about mentally ill cuckservatives who have no idea how peer-review works.
He'll use the proceeds to open a pub on the Portland ME waterfront, called The Flat Earth.
Patrons will be warned by the waitstaff not to get the proprietor started talking about astronomy and rocketry.
Just to make yourself feel good.... ridicule and schadenfreude.
5 out of 6 people enjoy Russian Roulette & 6 out of 7 Dwarfs are not Happy
Would be cheaper to call some friend that he had in a different time zone, wait for sunrise and ask if the sun is rising there now. If answer is no, try to explain that with a flat earth.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Trump will soon be recruiting this loser to run NASA.
We should all consider ourselves fortunate to be witness to this monumental moment in history. The most elaborate and expensive suicide ever attempted.
Proving that the ignorance you can find in one person is really unlimited. I fear, though, that he is not that much more ignorant than the average person, just more stubborn.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
are soon parted. Still at least it's a change from Jesus needs the money.
Is there some infinite supply of water in the middle of the disc? A wall? Why aren't there any pictures of the edge?
The question is. Is Earth the armature or the stator? It's got to be one or the other. And nothing else. Aint it so?
My question why any sensible person anywhere, would ever discuss this ... and give the guy the air tie he wants?
flying off the edge?
Since the earth is flat, he can just use a directional antenna to maintain constant communication with a cell tower and livestream the whole thing.
Fame as a moron. Who knew there was a future in that?
#freedumbs
I seem to recall another rather famous balloon that was filled with hydrogen. It could have gone better. I'm all for getting out the beer & popcorn if this guy actually does it and isn't just a con artist trying to separate idiots from their money, but in the unlikely event of this actually happening, hope he does it far away from populated areas or anything flammable.
Or he could blow $2000 on airfare and fly around the earth. If it doesn’t work, he can ask for a refund. If it works, he learns something. Either way, poor legroom and dodgy airplane food.
This idiot craves attention like a 2 year old and the press is more than happy to oblige.
You only need a stick, clock, sunny day and a little math to check if Earth is round or not:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Measurement_of_the_Earth's_circumference
Everyone learns this at school, so the guy is obviously just trolling.
The Earth is not flat. This is a lie spread by fools and idiots. If the earth was flat, the water would run off the edge. It is CLEARLY bowl shaped, as this is the only shape that would retain water over time.
Do not believe this idiot, his ideas will lead you down a path of folly and ruin.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
The earth can be flat, I once saw a crazy proof. Thankfully these people are not smart enough to learn the math to pull it off. Yes, it was a math proof. it can be done. I think. it was beyond my math skills. It was however a form of dimensional transform. Something like putting 3D into 2D space. So it was flat within that geometry which could be argued as a some conceptual argument for our existence. Except that if that were the case, we perceive it in 3D so it does not matter what it actually is... and the earth is more than 3D... if you make time the 4th, then it's 4D and we live in 4D but just have no freedom in the 4th. But it could be 12D or whatever. Doesn't matter until we figure out gravity and time etc... if they are even involved in other dimensions... all the rest we don't care about so fuck'm.
No one knows what's in the center of the Earth
If he doesn't believe the earth is round, why does he believe it has a center?
Because, on a flat earth the center would be, going by their maps, the north pole. Only a sphere has a 'center' that you theoretically could reach by drilling.
If this were his own words, then i think this dude knows darn well the earth is round. He's just seeking publicity. And just unmasked himself by this slip of the tongue.
A glitch a day keeps the bugs away.
Come on. This guy is obviously trolling if that is a real quote from him and not a typo. If he said "or" then maybe hes just stupid. But he said "at". Trolls love easter eggs like that because they think they are smarter than the people they are fooling, so they occasionally let the truth slip through to see if people are still buying it.
Faking stupid in a long game does take a large amount of effort. So he may have just screwed up too. But the wording is significant i think.
He'd be better off letting the balloon go higher with a lighter payload. A steam rocket with its massive pressure vessel is going to take more off your maximum altitude than it contributes.
The first humans to see the curvature of the Earth were US Army captains Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson, who achieved an altitude of 22km in the Helium-filled Explorer II balloon on November 11, 1935. This would be the way to go. The record for a hot-air balloon ascent is 21 km, which would be sufficient to detect the curvature of the Earth if your gondola sported a porthole with a sufficiently wide field of view.
But the easiest and cheapest sensory evidence you can get is from a camera lofted into the stratosphere by a weather balloon. For under $150 you can buy a ballon with a burst height of over 35 km. You could probably rig the entire mission for under $1000.
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Is it wrong for me to hope they guy miscalculates and ends up in orbit? So in the hour or two before he runs out of air, he's either completed one full circuit or at least enough of one to go to his death knowing he was an ignorant fool.
It's an awesome plan "if I don't burn up coming back through the atmosphere."
Altitude has nothing to do with burning up in the atmosphere. He will merely reach terminal velocity speeds (which will vary with the density of the atmosphere) but there is no risk of burning up. Objects that are in orbit burn up because they are at orbital velocity, not because of their altitude.
Better known as 318230.
Is he proposing a cubic planet ?
Either way, being able to reach east west destinations via polar paths should be all the proof anyone needs.
Or he'd be invited to DC for his accomplishments like clockboy was.
Same off topic troll on a second post of the same spam
Fly over the wall and prove the Earth is flat!
A Maine alternative newsweekly just interviewed self-taught rocket scientist "Mad" Mike Hughes...
Why is anyone giving this lunatic the time of day? More specific to here, how exactly is this news for nerds or stuff that matters? If this lunatic wants to become a Darwin Award recipient, let him and spare us the details. All the media are doing is giving a lunatic a bullhorn to infect other idiots with his stupidity. He's not even an entertaining species of lunatic.
This is the quote of 2017.
And all of you haters and losers making fun of this guy, why do you hate diverse viewpoints in science? It's about time we had more Trump-supporting scientists.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"Then I’ll fire a rocket through the balloon that will pull me up by my shoulders through a truss for 42 miles at 1.5 g’s
Better have a hella long line between him and the rocket exhaust.
"Everything will be controlled remotely. Even if I’m unconscious, they can use the controls to bring the balloon back. That is the plan. That is if I don’t burn up coming back through the atmosphere."
He seems to think that the slow velocity he will be going will allow for enough friction heating to ignite him? He won't even be going fast enough to orbit, so he'll pretty quickly slow to terminal velocity.
We do make stupid people famous don't we?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Either this guy is the epitome of stupidity and obduracy, or else he's a ruthless scammer attempting to capitalize on a common fad. We'll probably find out soon.
Flat-Earthers make me feel the way I'm sure I make climate alarmists feel, but I believe in science (the process), and I'm willing to put a few bucks towards an independent verification.
And who exactly do you think is qualified to perform your "independent verification"? You do realize that climate scientists actually have more to gain by proving the consensus wrong than they do in going along with it? They ARE the independent verification. Only people engaged in confirmation bias pretend otherwise.
In any case the science has already been done on this (both flat earth and climate change) and there is no need to rehash what is out there unless you want to either confirm an experiment yourself or have new evidence to present.
And maybe a bigger factor is that if a schmuck like this can get to space, that can only mean the day is getting closer when I can too.
This idiot isn't going into space. Please tell me you aren't actually dumb enough to believe anything this moron claims.
Frisbee-shaped disc
As opposed to... what? A non-Frisbee-shaped disc?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I think I love this guy ... awesome wackiness! Troll or not, he's highly entertaining :)
Low effort troll could have at least shown some respect for tradition and snuck a Goatse link in there somewhere.
"Wouldn't it be cheaper and less deadly to just try to drill through the Earth to the other side to prove your point?"
That's a reasonable question?
Flat earthers all killing themselves to prove that the world is flat? I'm all for it!
5 minutes of publicity why?
The current incarnation of the flat earth movement is a huge gaslighting campaign on the american people. Of that much I am sure. Who is behind it and and what their motivations are is still unclear,
I still am waiting for them to tell me where the edges of the Earth are
..........FULL STOP.
...I say performance artists. There's no way the majority of money he is getting come from people who really think the earth is flat; instead they come from people who REALLY want to see a guy fire a rocket with himself strapped in via shoulder harness...
My only real concern with his plan is that he's made sure his beneficiaries get a great percentage of the video rights.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
1 - The sunlight DOES pass through more atmosphere in the summer. Take some geometry classes.
2 - If your hard drive is vibrating that badly, something is out of balance. The rest of your assumptions and innuendo in that section are not relevant.
3 - Your playing with gyroscopes isn't the same as a planet in orbit, or pretty much anything in orbit, but I'm not going to take the time to educate you on this especially since you put it in a section that supposed to be on eclipses.
4 - You've never been to a Solar Observatory either I see. No, the Corona never moves faster than the speed of light, any movement of portions of the suns Corona is SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW the speed of light. How the heck do you think we can identify when a Coronal discharge will hit earth by observation? We don't some kind of sci-fi superluminal telescopes!
And no, the sun and the moon are in no way the same size. Parallax measurements have verified that without any doubt by anyone who knows at least high school level math/geometry/physics.
There are NO observatories on the dark side of the moon (it's not dark because there's no light, it's "dark" because it can't be seen from Earth), though we have had probes and manned missions orbit the moon and send back the pictures of it. Now if you mean we can see protuberances of the solar corona beyond the edges of the moon during a full solar eclipse, well that is correct! That's because the moon isn't completely smooth, the disk of the sun is far enough away that it can be completely blocked by the moon, but it's atmosphere, the corona, is large enough to peek out from behind it like a guy with a beer belly turning sideways to hide behind a tree that's not wide enough. As to it not being smooth either, well duh! The sun was once thought to be a perfect structure of divine essence, then we developed methods to see past it's bright glare and learn the truth. It's a seething turbulent mass. So of course the corona isn't some nice smooth thing. Heck, it's magnetic field has enough loops and twists it could be the manifestation of a knitters nightmare! And with the corona being plasma, it's able to be manipulated by those magnetic fields. Anyway, this is more time trying to educate a willfully ignorant fool that I should be spending. NEXT!
5 - Wow, more eclipses huh? Neither the Earth nor Luna are perfect spheres, not even close, or hadn't you noticed the mountains and other such discrepancies?
Color changes are due to the passing of the light through the EARTHS atmosphere as well as the particles in it. At different angles you get different frequencies due to the scattering. Sorry the cameras used by the filmer suck worse than human eyes which are easily fooled by changing light levels.
Sorry you don't understand how when circling another object an object has to rotate to maintain facing that same object, so yeah, the moon has rotation, stop being so ignorant. In fact, the rotation doesn't keep it exactly facing the earth because the orbit isn't perfectly circular, though it is still orbit locked. (Look up orbit locked if you still don't get that the moon is rotating, or go to an FPS forum and ask about circle strafing which is the same basic idea.) Because of this slight mismatch we can actually see about 59% of the total surface of the moon with the naked eye over the period of an orbit. That time is almost a month, or a bit more accurately, is a lunar month. If you want more accuracy than that, grab an encyclopedia, you need to read a set badly.
Craters do tend to be round, just look at the ones on the Earth made by meteorites, and even the artificial ones we made by slamming high speed objects into the ground, accidentally and intentionally. The only time they aren't "round" is when they are more oval and stretched out in one axis. Those are caused by things hitting at a more horizontal angle, and yes, they exist on the moon too, but do to the way orbital mechanics, gravity, and the resultant impacts end up working out, they rarely strike at that kind of angle.
I've seen a hypothesis that our universe is a 3d hologram essentially projected from a 2d source on a brane, (Yes, I spelled "brane" correctly, go look it up.) Of course, we have no idea if that's true or not, or if branes actually exist either. But even if the source of the universe is 2d, that doesn't mean the earth is "flat" in our perception of the universe.
The rain in Spain
falls mainly on the brane?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
An obvious mod choice is missing!
Do we know who he voted for?
Any guesses?
This guy is the same as the anti-vaxers, the moon-landing-hoaxers, the homeopathic medicine users, the phones-cause-cancer believers, and the “911 was an inside job” crew. All the same.
No matter what you believe today, you’ll find a healthy group of people on the internet with the same beliefs, and lots of data to back them up.
And they vote.
Yeah, slashdot has really gone downhill since the good old days.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
1 - The sunlight DOES pass through more atmosphere in the summer. Take some geometry classes.
If you live on the northern hemisphere and talk about what northerners call summer, then no.
I suggest you take your own advice and take a geometry class.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Not literally at home, you'll have to go outside, but with very basic tools.
What you need:
1. A place with a very long expanse of "flat" (spoilers: follows the curvature of the earth) ground and a tall structure (a runway with control tower or flat expanse of desert with a nearby tall cliff or plateau could work)
2. A large equilateral triangle frame with a plumb weight hanging from one corner. This is your highly sensitive angle measuring tool. Mark the level position on the face opposite from where the weight is hanging. Enclose it in clear plastic to keep wind away from the plumb line for bonus points.
3. Optional but recommended: Binoculars/spyglass/telescope, pressure altimeter.
Start near the base of the tall structure. Note any easily visible features near the base. Walk away from it in the direction that will give you the longest distance on flat ground. Check that the ground is level (and optionally check altitude) as frequently as you like. As you get very far away from the tall structure, note that features near the base are no longer visible. If the ground is measured as being flat (altitude can help confirm) yet the base of the tall structure is obscured by the ground at long distances, this proves that the earth is not flat.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
My takeaway is that these crazy fucks believe the Russians but not American scientists...
I can't believe morons like this are still around. It's been proven a very long time ago that the Earth is NOT flat. Also there is no sea monster out to swallow ships whole.
that the tether he uses is very short. Darwin will take care of this problem.
Has this guy heard of the Hindenburg?
Clearly not the brightest bulb on this frisbee.
If you just want to laugh at gullible idiots then look at Africa.
It's turtles all the way down.
Dude, you are an intellectual flyweight who occasionally happens to be on the factual side of arguments. Mostly you just blather about things which you don't understand.
Case in point: when you find a hill on water, let us know.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Check with local legislators? How is it THEY secretly know the world is actually a flat disk? How do you build up speed by driving a car in circles? The faster you go the more centripetal forces will pull the car to the side causing you to loose traction. Wouldn't driving in a straight line be a better way to accelerate to the desired speed? Oh wait, you're a "self-taught" scientist so you never took any science classes in high school or college. That would explain why you think filling your balloon with hydrogen is a great idea for you to launch your rocket from. I'll just walk away from you shaking my head.
I appreciate your consideration, at least. About 4, although the corona is apparent on the back of the moon, it is the chromosphere which is most apparent.
Plenty of news sites/publications have an "on the lighter side" section.
So what? This still isn't news even of the lighter variety. This is either an idiot or a troll. Either way he should be ignored.
In this case, many find it amusing to see the lengths a flat earther will take their beliefs and for those of us with any science education it's seeing the 101 glaring problems with his plan. It's an amusing distraction.
Maybe if you have a truly perverse sense of humor. I don't see anything funny about this. We're already dealing with a presidency that is more anti-science than any in my lifetime. We don't need to be giving the lunatics the microphone. I'm not outraged but his 15 minutes of fame should be in the rear view mirror except jackasses keep giving him the attention he desires.
If you don't get it that's fine, feel free to be outraged.
There is nothing to get. He's a moron and an attention whore. It sounds like you are part of the problem.
Or even getting a rocket. That man if not mentally ill, is simply trying to fleece other people out of $1.8 million. And that's the extent of the story.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
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I know they guy is crazy, but better this than saying we are "detecting gravity waves" from a star +2K light years away. Really? No. That's is true utter grant money horse shit.
It would be cheaper to just launch a GoPro to that same altitude, and then release it with a small parachute. But the guy seems to have a death wish.
Doesn't that just sum up the world in general?
but he's 100% positive the Earth is flat. /boggle
The rocket stuff is crazy, but the flat Earth isn't. Explain the weaker and yellower winter Sun. The tilt can't do it.
Why do you think they waste time on gravity waves? To reinforce the illusion.
Space is fake. Earth is flat. The eclipses prove it.
Use this one weird trick to generate more clicks
"Mad" Mike Hughes is truly the Einstein of the Trump era! (oops, I meant error!).
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Let's help the guy out.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
It lets people of even average intelligence or scientific knowledge feel smugly superior.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
how has all the water not spilled over the edge into space?
Even though you're wrong, I'll help you out: Do it over water. Water is guaranteed curved if on a sphere, and flat if not.
How about we give him cash to buy a GoPro (if we bought it for him ot would be a plot) and a weather balloon and a string and a lead weight and he can do what fucking middle schoolers ddo and send it into space. Oh wait he's just a guy trying to get money out of people who are dumb.
..."that's easy! Show me where the edge of the Earth is! That'd be the coolest place ever! Heck, I'll build a house right at the edge of the world!"
Personally, my favorite corollary is that the presence of cats is disproof of a flat Earth. If the Earth were flat, there would be an edge somewhere. Which is where all the cats would be, knocking things off the edge, rather than piddling around with us mere humans.
Feeling sad that interviewer asked "Wouldn't it be cheaper and less deadly to just try to drill through the Earth to the other side to prove your point?" and can't do it?
Feel sad no more, with this shortcut to the other side of earth!
First get/steal a pair of nice shoes. (use magnet for maximum efficiency)
Next, run as fast as you can to the top Mount St. Helens and jump off into the volcano.
Volcano has a big hole at the top so you won't need any digging. You'll reach the other side of earth in no time as you'll fall straight to the other side. Russia goes bankrupt, drill companies go bankrupt, school goes bankrupt. U Mad, interviewer fag?
I thought you were no longer allowed to use that term. How about "fact-based according to a someone who admits he doesn't know what he is talking about"?
So stressful, need a cigarette.
" I'm no expert at anything, but I know that's a fact."
- and they are learning the way to win votes, in twitter length winning bigly insight after another...
This needed editing, tho': "All the stuff that you learned in school -- []-- it's all lies"
Ruth isn't coming back.
When they asked him why not just dig through the earth?
He says 'You cannot drill through this planet. It dulls every drill bit. All the stuff that you learned in school -- that the core is molten nickel , it's all lies. No one knows what's in the center of the Earth or how deep it is. I'm no expert at anything, but I know that's a fact."
Why not move to the edge and dig there? ; )
How does the ocean not fall? Hrmmm... GRAVITY? Why does he think he needs 1.8 million dollars to fund this absurd exercise if Gravity doesn't exist; he's clearly not jumping hard enough.
It's either alreasdy here or quickly marching towards our territory.
Actually I'd thought of that but it would make the experiment more difficult. My experiment was inspired by the effect of tall ships disappearing bottom-first over the horizon, but on a moving water surface with waves, there could be ways for flat-earthers to weasel out of this problem: They could argue that it's too difficult to measure angles on the ocean, or that wave peaks are what obscures the bottoms of boats at long distances. Doing the experiment on land eliminates these problems and keeps it cheap and simple (no need for a boat for one). These people like evidence that is directly and easily observable.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I still can't believe the parent post is +5 insightful. It's BS. The whole point of science is to use evidence to figure out the laws of physics. When the sitting president bans scientists from using the term "evidence-based", it should be clear the president DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT about science. Why would anyone expect real scientists to support him? (Real scientists: people interested in founding out how things actually work, as compared to snake oil salespeople claiming their mystical bracelet will cure all your ailments.)
If you want to throw out science that has been proven for centuries, you might as well go to a doctor who thinks leeches can fix broken bones.
Hey guys, it's sad people have to keep reminding of this but this guy is nothing but a professional troll. And what do you do with trolls? Don't feed them! Stop posting stories and comments about this guy, stop tweeting about him (even if making fun of him or trying to debunk him). Stop everything and just ignore him and he will go away. If you are going to say anything at least tell people to stop feeding him as well.
Is there a gofundme where I can assist him? I want to help.
I miss GNAA.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Anyone have a link for his kickstarter, or whatever? I'm generally not one to promote suicide, but this guy seems adamant on using his homemade rocket to kill himself in a most spectacular fashion. I mean, if this is what he really wants as his dying act, who am I to deny him? Hell, maybe we can help him along with his goal?
One famous experiment used a narrow canal.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
If you look into this guys story further, you find that for several months he was looking for financial backing for his rocket hobby. He tried NASA, and various other groups to help with funding. After exhasuting EVERYTHING he could think of, he started talking to the Flat Earth movement. He was able to convince the group that he was a heavy believer through a 90 minute talk with one of their interviewers. They gave him the funding for his hobby, and he has been pushing their ideals every chance he gets.
Scott Carr
I take the hammer and tongs to them. I have no interest in trying to convince them they are wrong -- I just metaphorically kick'em in the nuts -- that is if they have any.
It's obvious that this guy is acting as a comedian. Why not do the right thing and laugh about his jokes? That statement with the water running off is super-funny, IMO. I can imagine the tone of his voice he conveyed it with.
Here it is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtODdWv6PVk
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The Earth is not flat, it is pringles chip shaped and I have evidence! At the poles there is ice, that's the parts of the "chip" that swing upwards so of course it's colder. The other parts swing downwards (the equator) and are closer to hell, that's why it's warm there!