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It occurs to me that a hydrogen-peroxide rocket could reasonably be called a "steam powered rocket".
 
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@Dik (and others):

"A Darwin award in the making?"

I've always felt that there should be some sort of Darwin "Encouragement Award" or "Lifetime Achievement Award", to be given to people who make persistent and repeated efforts to remove themselves from the gene pool, but have (so far) failed to do so. A Darwin Award can only be granted when the "applicant" is finally successful.



 
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This is a screen shot from the video. There is a glove and what looks like pvc pipe right there by the launch, and that gives me the impression that this is a small rocket launch slowed down.
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jhardy said:
I've always felt that there should be some sort of Darwin "Encouragement Award" or "Lifetime Achievement Award", to be given to people who make persistent and repeated efforts to remove themselves from the gene pool,
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I think there are enough plausible candidates without encouraging them...

Dik
 
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zuesfaber - I tend to agree, but if you watch the video closely I think the parachute is actually a drag chute they use on drag racing. The lines all come into a single central point and it just doesn't look big enough to allow someone to "float" down to the ground, never mind the weight of the "rocket". Also all manner of shite goes flying into the drogue and looks to me why it gets shredded.

Anyway the guy is an absolute loon as are all the flat earthers - How anyone manages to convince themselves of this is the bigger mystery here.

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Unfortunately many of our politicians are so scientifically naive i think the fact that the earth is a sphere would be a surprise. There are plenty of these type out there.

Mind you the man could be a genius. Think of all the free publicity he is getting. Probably run for president in future.

My grandmother who passed away in the 70's was one of the flat earth club. She had the complete logic.
The earth is flat. Any fool can see that.
Man did not go to the moon. Everyone knows that you cant live in space. Walking on the moon was a lie.
Besides if the earth is flat you cannot orbit it in a space ship so that proves its all a lie.

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@littleinch - could be its just a fraction of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti monster (atheists having fun/mocking religion)?
 
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How do they answer the question that when at sea, where the surface is super flat, you still can't see anything more than 20-30 miles away on the clearest day in history??




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Even if a flat-earther made it to the moon, they'd probably just look back and say "yep, it's a flat, round disc". I think a more interesting experiment would be an expedition to go find the edge of the world.
 
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LI said:
How do they answer the question that when at sea, where the surface is super flat, you still can't see anything more than 20-30 miles away on the clearest day in history??
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Easy... the horizon looks flat...

When we were in grade school one of the things that Columbus proved was that the world was round... they forgot to mention that the Greeks had determined the diameter of it several thousand years earlier...

With apologies to the Limelighters Chad Mitchell Trio, their take on the John Birch Society could be applicable to the Flat Earthers..."...to get this movement started, we need lots of tools and cranks..."

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dik said:
When we were in grade school one of the things that Columbus proved was that the world was round... they forgot to mention that the Greeks had determined the diameter of it several thousand years earlier...
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I hope you're being deliberately ironic because Columbus (and most people of his time) knew the world was round.

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While he may be credited (at least by some) with "proving that the world was round", that was NOT what Columbus set-out to do. Rather he was looking for a shorter route to the Far East, which of course would only have been possible IF the world was indeed round. And the reality was that contrary to the romantic idea of exploration and looking for a 'New World', Columbus was part of a purely commercial venture funded by the Spanish, who were looking for an alternative route to the Spice Islands in the hope of breaking the spice trade monopoly then held by Portugal.

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TME: In all seriousness... we were taught that one of the things that Columbus did was to prove the world was round... I wouldn't make something like that up... we knew nothing of the Greeks and wells and things...

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How do they answer the question that when at sea, where the surface is super flat, you still can't see anything more than 20-30 miles away on the clearest day in history??[/qoute]

I was told that in Saskatchewan, if you look carefully enough into the distance, you can see the back of your head.
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dik, gotta laugh at some of the stuff that makes it into history textbooks (the alternative is be depressed at the state of our education). It bugs me to no end how poorly history is taught when it really should be one of the more interesting classes.

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Found more videos, haven't had time to peruse them all for details:

Mike Hawkins
Published on Nov 1, 2015
Mike Hughes flew in his home built rocket at Winkelman, Arizona, in January 2014. It flew a quarter mile! The second rocket he built flew 6/10 of a mile, which is over a half mile and on minimum steam pressure. If it flew at full capacity, it would have flown over a mile! The next flight is targeted to do that.

This video is Mad Mike Hughes Rockets #1 and #2. The first one flew manned with Mike and the second flew without him. The next flight is scheduled in about a week 3 miles from Amboy, California. This video is copyright (c) 2014-2017 Michael Hawkins. All rights reserved.

This video is about Mad' Mike Hughes Manned Rocket Flight which took place on January 30, 2014. Mike Hawkins placed a GoPro Onboard Camera at the rear of the rocket, propelled by steam. It went a quarter mile. The second rocket Mike Hughes built went over a half mile. The next flight is slated to place in Oregon 2016. Visit MadMikeHughes.com for further details.
 
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If the people in Columbus' time really thought the world was flat, there would have have been no way in hell to get enough bodies to man 3 ships. The risk, that those in charge were concerned about, was about the uncharted waters that Columbus wanted to sail into. Their agreement was all about gaining islands and mainlands The biggest error was that the Greeks grossly underestimated the diameter of the Earth.

"How do they answer the question that when at sea, where the surface is super flat, you still can't see anything more than 20-30 miles away on the clearest day in history??"

Didn't a certain ex-governor claim that she could see Russia from her living room?


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IRS: I suspect that, back then, they had different means of recruitment. It may be that the more enlightened knew the world was an oblate spheroid... perhaps not... I don't recall ever seeing this written in a text... only that the teacher stated that he wanted to prove it...

Dik
 
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