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Self taught rocket launcher - Failure waiting to happen... 1

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It was the almost there that threw me... who are the skraelings? Is that the morsemen? or the inhabitants they were invading.

Dik
 
Thanks IRS:
So, they were the unfriendly invaded inhabitants...

Dik
 
"And there's always a surplus of those... "

LOL, very true. One would think the human race could figure it out after millennia of history to draw upon.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
 
"I'm a daredevil. I'm not much for authority or rules."

Insert your own word for daredevil.

I'll start: Dumba$$
 
Well, the guy's an adult. If he is risking only his own neck, spending only his own (or freely given) money and has permission of the land owner, let him have at it.

Regards,

Mike

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
 
I have no issues with self-chlorination of the gene pool, either...

Dan - Owner
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Wow.

"Hughes , who transported his rocket to Amboy late last week, with his vehicle breaking down numerous times during the 100-mile trek."

He can't even get his "launch pad" to drive 100 miles without breaking down and he's going to launch himself 1 mile high? Why does't he just book a commercial airline flight, they fly far higher than that?

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^ that was my favorite cartoon show!

As for just hopping on a commercial aircraft ... There is no talking sense into idiots. I say let Darwin take its course.
 
"Why doesn't he just book a commercial airline flight, they fly far higher than that?"

Well, he doesn't believe in science, so how is he going to believe that planes fly higher than he can launch himself?

TTFN (ta ta for now)
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I suspect that he is just using the Flat Earthers for funding. He's an Adrenalin junkie and is using the Flat Earth society to help pay for his Adrenalin fix.

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
 
Let's hope the launch IS a success and he proves to himself the Earth ISN'T flat.[atom]
 
Then it's a matter of convincing his sponsors... and, I hope he doesn't take the truth to the grave.

Dik
 
BB... they might be happier, not knowing... as they say, ignorance is bliss...
 
Either way, "flatness" will be at the end of this story:
- his ship fails, and his launch attempt "falls flat",
- his ship launches, and his landing "falls flat",
- his ship launches, and he sees for himself the earth is flat.
In all cases, the result is a foregone conclusion.

STF
 
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