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^^^^ Flattened Earther. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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While my instinct is to have zero sympathy for someone like this, I will give him some credit. Most conspiracy theory nuts fallback on the idea of “prove me wrong“. This guy actually made the exceptionally rare attempt to “prove he was right“. ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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So how, exactly, was a flight to 5,000 feet supposed to accomplish this? Maybe we'll never know.
One would think if he was smart enough to understand rocket physics, he would be smart enough to understand orbital mechanics. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Was he with the chute when it fell off, or was that a lost chute and thus he rode it down?  | |||
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A balloon could have gotten him to 5000 feet. The risk of impacting the Earth at terminal velocity would be substantially lessened as well. Freakin' fruitcake | |||
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Um, no. Just no. Some things require an education and all the pain that goes along with getting an education. . | |||
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That was a "drogue" chute attached to the rocket designed to slow it during descent. As it tore away on launch, there was no way for the vehicle to decelerate, so the rocket augured in at 350mph with him in it. | |||
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Death comes to us all. Sometimes it comes when riding a homemade rocket to support your belief that the Earth is flat.  End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Hell, a basic economy window seat on any budget airline will get you that high and then some by a multiple of 7. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Yeah, tons of failure in this entire plan. I'm sure he's taken flights on commercial airliners before. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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The term "Rube Goldberg" comes to mind. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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The term "Bored Second graders built this on a rainy Saturday out of trash left in the barn" comes to mind. . | |||
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He's definitely flat earth! Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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Guess he learned that gravity still applies. _____________ | |||
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I know others mentioned much easier and better ways to get up high. So this leads me to believe he was either really stupid, legit crazy, or just doing this silly shit for a reality show paycheck. Probably a mix of all three. | |||
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Immediately after launch, everyone knew this idea would fall flat. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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The thing is, for the price of a simple airline ticket one could prove that theory wrong. Heck, when I took the Travel Air up to 17,500 to check out a newly purchased portable oxygen system, the curvature of the earth was plain to see from there. I do not believe the sort of altitudes he was trying to obtain are enough to see the curvature. Oh well, at least he stuck the landing... | |||
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