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

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Sparweb said:
- his ship launches, and he sees for himself the earth is flat.

but, doesn't live long enough to tell anyone... so, the rest of us still think the world is round...

Dik
 
Don't know what going on as both videos are error and one account has been closed?

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This seems to say that nothing is happening soon.

btw, I saw a Youtube interview of another believer. He seemed pretty well educated insofar as the arguments go; he was wrong, but it was interesting listening to the rationale.

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SparWeb - So you're saying the landing could flattening, but his new nickname might not be flattering?
 
So, once you are "up there", you don't see a sphere but only the 2D projection of it.
So, wouldn't the only conclusion he draws be that he lives in the exact middele of the flat earth?
And on top of that, even if he drove another 1000 miles (lets say he could, seing the problems he had merely leaving his driveway), and he tried the same thing, he'd be again in the middle of the flat earth.
Thereby practically proving that the earth rotates around him...

I'd do it for that as well, ending up in a walker is just collateral damage having proved you're the centre of the universe.

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[URL unfurl="true" said:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a16573448/mad-mike-hughs-flat-earth-rocket-delay-february-2018/[/URL]]Flat Earther Rocket Flight Delayed Yet Again

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Should have hitched a ride with SpaceX.

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such a moh-ron; he could have gotten higher sooner with a weather balloon, which would be substantially less risky to boot.

Of course, Felix Baumgarten must also be part of the conspiracy: but he at least claims to have jumped from 100 times the altitude this pea-brain is attempting to get to.

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Well, "Flat Earth" truther, "Mad" Mike Hughes, finally launched his steam-powered rocket, and he managed to avoid killing himself in the process:

Self-taught rocket scientist finally blasts off into California sky

"I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket. I'm tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it."



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IRstuff said:
such a moh-ron; he could have gotten higher sooner with a weather balloon, which would be substantially less risky to boot.
That will be his next venture, maybe.

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"That's his project for down the road. He wants to build a "Rockoon," a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit. This rocket would take Hughes about 68 miles up."

About time...

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Well I must say that is fairly impressive for a complete amateur. That would have been a hell of s ride 🚀

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