California man launching homemade rocket to prove Earth is flat (2020 update pilot died rip)

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Compare a ball with water in it to the earth brehs


I can give two shyts what shape Earth is, but how y'all be trying to clown people for their opinion on the subject when you've done no scientific testing yourself to prove your own theory? All you can do is go off of what you're told and the "evidence" these scientists put in front of you...
 

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I was in between.... so I did research, my own research... and based on facts and evidence... the flat earth makes more sense.

the earth is 3/4 water, how can water curve on a round earth. if it does, wouldnt all the water be in the southern hemisphere. Water always finds it level. which is FLAT
the fact there is no real pics of earth only nasa made images, cgi images, and fish eyed lenses and the fact each pictures thru the years are different
when building railroads, canals,tunnels, engineers never calculate the allowance of any curvatures, if the earth was a globe wouldn't they allow such
go on any flight tracking page, and notice that they will never show any of the southern hemisphere flights
If the Earth were a globe, an observer who should ascend above its surface would have to took downwards at the horizon.. when your on an airplane, the horizon is eye level, and not downwards on a globe
If the earth were a globe, the people except those on top of the globe have to be fastened to its surface

So if you believe the earth is round, you must also believe that our planet travels some 67k miles per hour around the sun, and a whopping speed of 490k thru the universe, yet we feel none of it, and none of the water falls off the spinning round globe?

lol. Some of the funniest things i've ever read on the Coli. Don't go to school brehs.
 

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I can give two shyts what shape Earth is, but how y'all be trying to clown people for their opinion on the subject when you've done no scientific testing yourself to prove your own theory? All you can do is go off of what you're told and the "evidence" these scientists put in front of you...
But you can do scientific testing several things I have observed myself that let me know the earth cant possibly be flat. How does a ship look like it sinking when it goes over the horizon? How do you explain seasons and time zones on a flat earth? How can you see the sunset twice if you watch it laying down then standing up? How does a sundial work on a fukking flat earth? Im sure most of us made them in elementary i know I did. fukk outta here.
 

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I can give two shyts what shape Earth is, but how y'all be trying to clown people for their opinion on the subject when you've done no scientific testing yourself to prove your own theory? All you can do is go off of what you're told and the "evidence" these scientists put in front of you...

It's more than just

One person says this

And

One person says that

If $50 of yours came up missing and the two choices were

pirates swung in on ropes and snatched it

Or

Someone who was in your room - like your roommate or sibling - saw it and snaked it

You really gonna sit around comparing and really contemplating both scenarios?

You use your common sense to help know which way to look.
 

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Dude actually launched himself :ohhh:

https://gizmodo.com/at-long-last-flat-earth-rocketeer-finally-manages-to-b-1824059035/amp

At Long Last, Flat Earth Rocketeer Finally Manages to Blast Himself Into Sky at God Knows What Speed

Tom McKay

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“Mad” Mike Hughes successfully launches his rocket on March 24, 2018.
Photo: AP

Self-declared Flat Earth researcher and DIY steam rocket enthusiast “Mad” Mike Hughes has finally managed to prove the haters wrong about his ability to blast himself some 1,875 feet into the sky without being crushed or scalded to death, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.

After the failure of two previous attempts to launch his steam-powered rocket with “RESEARCH FLAT EARTH” emblazoned on the side—first due to meddling government bureaucrats and then due to unspecified technical problems—Hughes finally managed to take off on Saturday from the Mojave Desert ghost town of Amboy, California. Video of the launch posted by AP freelancer Matt Hartmancaptured the moment the rocket took off, which seemed to take onlookers by surprise, including a nearby group of boys who appeared to be idly throwing rocks into a bigger pile of rocks.



Here’s video from another angle shot by Amboy town manager Carlos Aceves, as well as footage of Hughes being extracted from the rocket by paramedics, via Route 66 News:







After the Bureau of Land Management nixed his first attempt for a flight path that would have taken him over public land, Hughes modified his rocket to use an improvised vertical launch platform. Per the AP, helper Waldo Stakes said that they were only able to get the steam rocket to 340 psi instead of the planned 350 psi, but went ahead with the launch anyway because Hughes wanted to avoid yet another failed attempt and dispel rumors he wasn’t actually on board a previous rocket he managed to launch in 2014. Stakes estimated the speed at 350 mph.

Hughes told the AP that outside of an aching back, he was fine and felt “relieved” the rocket launch was over.

“I’m tired of people saying I chickened out and didn’t build a rocket,” he added. “I’m tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it ... This thing wants to kill you 10 different ways. This thing will kill you in a heartbeat.”

“Am I glad I did it?” Hughes concluded. “Yeah. I guess. I’ll feel it in the morning. I won’t be able to get out of bed. At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight.”


Whatever calculations Hughes, who does not “believe in science,” performed are not a matter of public record. But the 350 mph estimate, accurate or not, is definitely fast enough to secure bragging rights.

The AP noted the triumphant rocketeer’s future plans include building a “Rockoon,” which sounds like an air-launched rocketthat involves a balloon instead of a plane and is apparently intended to get him high enough into the air to test his Flat Earth theory (68 miles, well above the breathable atmosphere and the Armstrong Limit where all bodily fluids would boil away in an unpressurized environment). Also he’s gonna run for governor, because sure, whatever.

[Associated Press/Route 66 News]
 
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