The tone of this post is so…over the top. I don’t know what Mad Mike did to the OP to engender such anger. The guy is a know-nothing, and his flight wouldn’t prove anything. Let him fly off in peace fer chrissakes
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This was a fun show. (The tv movie, specifically.) For some reason the scene where the guy is in the Ferrari on the test track, but yet goes real slow to simulate a slow-launch, really sticks with me. Like not everything needs to be all bluster and flash and force to be effective. (Of course, you can’t get around this for achieving orbit, but the metaphor I liked.)
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If you have no grasp at all of any aspect of the earth’s geography, and reject any information that might contradict your weirdly cherry-picked version of the earth, you might imagine that 1800’ would be high enough to see the earth’s curvature.
I Googled it, and some people on a forum dedicated to frequent fliers said you could start to make out the curvature of the earth from the Concorde. Cruising altitude: 60,000’.
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No worries, he pays a flat rate.
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What Would Evel Knievel Do?
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He could save a lot of rocket fuel if he just pushed the thing over the edge.
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Of course they have. It’s just that they’ve been destroyed by the UN who is taking orders from the world government, who is taking orders from the Man who sits in a room with no windows.
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You can also easily observe the curvature of the Earth by watching ships move beyond the horizon. First you see them, then you only see the top of the ship, then you don’t see them at all. They should schedule the next Flat Earth Convention at a seaport at the end of a tall ship festival. Plenty of research opportunities on the matter.
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They claim that the only reason you think they disappear is they are too far away. Indeed there is video of a ship that disappears and then they zoom in and see it again.
Which has some truth to it. But eventually it will be so far out to sea the reason you can’t see it even with a telescope is the earth’s curve.
There is so much evidence that people with rudimentary tools and basic geometry figured this out literally thousands of years ago. People who truly believe this do so because they believe there is a conspiracy. Which means anything that seems to support their theory is the truth, and anything against it is part of the conspiracy.
If any of them were smart enough to do some of the math and basic astronomy they would run into the problem that their results don’t match up with their theory. But none of them want to go that deep. And if they did, they would write it off as something else. (Note too - there are some VERY smart people who believe in conspiracies out there. Though usually its less provable ones, like aliens.)
I still haven’t seen anyone show me how the sun and moon a flat earth would work, with the day light hours as long as they are as we can clearly measure, much less things like lunar eclipse.
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They don’t even have to be ships. You can observe the same thing with distant buildings. From Wikipedia:
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Like this guy who got some attention as “the highest IQ man on earth” and has spent the last 20 years trying to mathematically prove christian theology correct as a model for the universe.
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I saw a flat-earther guy on youtube post a video where he actually turned to the side of reason upon realizing that a sun shining on one part of a flat earth would still be visible from other parts of the flat earth, like how you can see a streetlamp shining even if you are far away from it & in the dark, and was now trying to convince his other flat-earthers that the FE model was a sham. It was amazing.
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I’m with you on this one. Flat earthers are a load of nonsense; but an eccentric engaging in questionably sensible DIY rocketry seems like happy mutant material. If Burning Man were somehow involved I’m sure he’d be OK.
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23, surely?
Also, flat-earthers are less dangerous than eugenicists.
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You don’t have to convince ME.
hmm - wonder if that is the same guy who gave a lecture at my college many years ago. Though that is a fairly harmless pursuit. And honestly, I think many people find the idea of a “thumbprint” in the math fascinating. I mean, why does DNA code work like it does? Or why do the basic components of matter interact like they do? The answer, more or less, is because it does. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t be pondering it. But it’s questions thinkers have thought about for a long time.
Yep, exactly. Some claim it shines down like a spot light, but even then, you could see that beam on a flat earth. Got a link to that video?
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I still think this is the Sons of Ether doing something outwardly goofy to throw off the Technocracy on whatever it is they’re really up to.
Elvis is everywhere. Elvis is still the King. And watch out for the EVIL Anti-Elvis. Can’t say his name, but you know who we are talking about.Oh, sure, he’s being sneaky, hiding behind some disease, but it’s a ruse.
He claims this is part of a continuing series of test flights, and that eventually he will be the first person to REALLY go into space. But yeah, he definitely seems to be bilking the flat earthers to fund his crazy hobby.
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