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Exhibit A on why lithobraking isn’t a good way to reuse rockets.
Ah, but the planes are all rigged so that they make you see what THE MAN wants you to see. Or the chemtrails make you hallucinate. Or it’s a crazy optical illusion and it just looks curved, but you can see the truth with a steam-powered rocket.
Now that he’s dead, it was a conspiracy to stop him from finding the truth. If he’d survived, he’d make up some conspiracy to explain what he saw. With flat-earthers (and lots of other fringe, and, increasingly, mainstream groups), everything is a conspiracy all the time, no matter what. The less evidence there is to support their beliefs, the more “evidence” that is of the cover-up.
Aw damn, you’re right – my tin foil hat slipped off.
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…in the interview with Space.com, Hughes clarified, “although I do believe in the flat Earth, this was never an attempt to prove that.”
“This flat Earth has nothing to do with the steam rocket launches, it never did, it never will. I’m a daredevil!” he added. He additionally shared that he wanted to launch “to inspire people.”
He apparently saw this launch as a stepping-stone to a later project that would involve a “rockoon” - a rocket lifted to altitude by a balloon, then launched from there to above the Kármán line. (Rockoons have a long and checkered history as low-cost launch schemes. Google “rockoon” for deets.)
But, yes he knew his 5000-ft. goal for this launch wouldn’t tell him anything about Earth’s flatness, and that he could have achieved that altitude more easily via other methods.
He wasn’t trying to reach 5000 feet — he was trying to successfully launch himself on a proof-of-concept rocket.
(And it was actually a pretty good launch, unfortunately bollixed by the premature parachute deployment.)
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I believe the correct phrase is “break atmo”?
Does anyone else find it odd that this was the same reason Evel Knievel didn’t make it over the Snake River Canyon? If my memory is correct, not a failure of the parachute mechanism, but by him not being able to hold the “pull the 'chute” lever during launch acceleration?
Wikipedia implies it was a mechanism failure. I like my story better.
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apparently he wasn’t a flat earther. It was more like a fool and his money are soon parted kind of thing.
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