Self-taught rocket scientist plans launch to test flat Earth theory

[Aquinan]

Did he do it yet?

[ranzino]

Did he do it yet?

should have happened already.

[grexly75]

And already been done so to speak when James May took a flight in a U2 Spyplane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmYItnlY5M from 7.47 minutes in you see the curvature of the earth..

[want my Slimjim]

Those flat earth people don't have a lot of money.

How do they explain away the arch of the horizon



Where you can see the curve of the ocean.

What you see is a massive low slow moving wave that gives the illusion of a horizon

[Cannibalus]

"Self taught rocket scientist" in 2017... next thing should be "self taught heart surgeon performing his first surgery on his dad"... that much stupidity makes me sick...

[want my Slimjim]

And already been done so to speak when James May took a flight in a U2 Spyplane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmYItnlY5M from 7.47 minutes in you see the curvature of the earth..

The cam is spheracle so it sees everything as round is not evidence


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[grexly75]

The cam is spheracle so it sees everything as round is not evidence

That is tinfoil hat talk, and well he is not using a fish eye lens nice try though..

[aviger]

So apparently he got told "NO" and also his trailer broke down :P

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lat/894762001/

[Sunseeker]

So apparently he got told "NO" and also his trailer broke down :P

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lat/894762001/

Damn, how's he expect to land that thing? I mean, missile-shaped rockets like that tend to land on their tip for a reason...

[grexly75]

So apparently he got told "NO" and also his trailer broke down :P

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lat/894762001/

Reading that really does make him sound like a right fruit loop nutter..

[slime]

I have difficulty understanding flat Earth theory. So, what happens at the edge? Do we not see an edge and there is a portal that then warps you way to the other side that gives the illusion we are on a near sphere (globe)? I mean someone over the last 500 years would've reached the end of the Earth I'm sure and reported something. I mean airplanes for God's sake.

[masterhorus8]

So apparently he got told "NO" and also his trailer broke down :P

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lat/894762001/

I'm honestly not surprised. Trying to launch anything into the sky in SoCal legally is a pain in the ass. My old high school tried to get permission to launch a small rocket, but there is too much air traffic and too many military installations around to do it. They would have had to go to north of Las Vegas to do it.

[Cannibalus]

Not exactly the same. For one during heart surgery stuff doesn't explode. Flat earth is very easy to disprove. They (flat earthers) say the world is a disc. Okie dokie. Well fly along longitude then move down to next line of longitude. By their own definition of (flat)earth the lines should be longer everytime.

Flat earthers are the pinnacle of stupidity in today's society along with anti-vaxxers and the likes...

[Celista]

Flat earther are just ignorant.

Anti-vaxxers are ignorant and dangerous.

Dangerous to each other and their offspring, sad for their kids but really anti-vaxxers are Darwinism at work.

People who are dangerous to everyone else are the "let's fuck over everyone else in the name of profit-making, ethics be damned" and "we should repopulate the globe with giant cats and other apex predators!" like some *cough* posters here.

[want my Slimjim]

Flat earther are just ignorant.

Anti-vaxxers are ignorant and dangerous.

None of those things are ignorant. Vaccines have been proven to hurt people. I'm keeping my kids away from them.lettgem build their own immune system. Vaccines destroy that. People would live longer if we stopped using it.

[Calfredd]

None of those things are ignorant. Vaccines have been proven to hurt people.

You mean the people who weren't suppose to get them in the first place due to an issue with their immune system?

[AwkwardSquirtle]

None of those things are ignorant. Vaccines have been proven to hurt people. I'm keeping my kids away from them.lettgem build their own immune system. Vaccines destroy that. People would live longer if we stopped using it.

Ah, that explains why people stopped dying of diseases because we started vaccinating everyone and hence life expectancy has improved.

[Laerrus]

None of those things are ignorant. Vaccines have been proven to hurt people. I'm keeping my kids away from them.lettgem build their own immune system. Vaccines destroy that. People would live longer if we stopped using it.

People like you are the reason why polio and small pox are making a comback. Keep your damn kids away from mine.

[Varitok]

The only thing thats gonna be flat is him when he hits the ground.

[Cosmic Janitor]

The only thing thats gonna be flat is him when he hits the ground.

You are assuming he is even getting lift off. It's way more likely that he just blows himself up due to a pressure containment failure or burns himself alive with a leaking steam pipe. For the poor sods that have to pick up his pieces afterwards I hope it's the first..