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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.

“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.“

I know a flat earther. He’s convinced the windows in aircraft are designed to make the flat earth look round. He saw a video on Youtube about it.

He was just trying to spread his "flat earth" theory. Looks like he did a good job.

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Originally posted by slosig:
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...

But don't you know the sun is only 3000 miles away from the earth and the airlines are in cahoots with NASA to lie to us. They really can't fly that high.

OK, but seriously, these guys are not thinking their ideas through to a logical conclusion. I have a friend that is an honest-to-goodness flat-earther. He doesn't believe that gravity exists "because how can birds fly if there is gravity?"

Take away: The Earth isn't flat

But now he is.

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Originally posted by mark123:
He doesn't believe that gravity exists "because how can birds fly if there is gravity?"

The Qur’an explains it: It says that birds can fly because Allah holds them up in the air.

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Originally posted by kkina:

Not only detached, it looks like it actually deployed. Premature ejection of the drogue chute is also what doomed Evel Knievel's attempted jump of the Snake River Canyon in the mid-70s...

Obviously premature ejection has been troubling men for a long time.



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Originally posted by TigerDore:

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Originally posted by kkina:

Not only detached, it looks like it actually deployed. Premature ejection of the drogue chute is also what doomed Evel Knievel's attempted jump of the Snake River Canyon in the mid-70s...

Obviously premature ejection has been troubling men for a long time.



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Finally someone picked up on that line.

Most folks never heard of him and now, he's all over the place.

He just sailed right out there! Regards 18DAI

Splat Earther...

Amboy...that place, explains at lot There's A LOT of 'unique' individuals out there in the high-desert, no surprise on this one.

I've heard of this guy, hats off in his perseverance to build his own rocket then strapping- in. I would wager he was a one-man operation, doggedly determined, not to be deterred, to prove everyone that he's right. Meanwhile, at the Mojave Space Port, the real scientists, pilots and engineers have been laughing at him for years. One less weirdo in the high-desert.

A rocket with a trailer hitch?

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Originally posted by sunburn:
A rocket with a trailer hitch?

Maybe it's a TOW missile?

I am certain to be bound for hell for doing so, but the trailer hitch made me laugh!

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by kz1000:
He has fans around the globe...

What you did there, sir, was well seen

Lol your retort was more clever than mine

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I am certain to be bound for hell for doing so, but the trailer hitch made me laugh!

note the tail-light on the left side of the photo.

I think it's a photo of the rocket on the back of a flatbed, that has a hitch.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I am certain to be bound for hell for doing so, but the trailer hitch made me laugh!

note the tail-light on the left side of the photo.

I think it's a photo of the rocket on the back of a flatbed, that has a hitch.

It is. You can see it here. (Too big to post)

Wow. What a fantastically fucking stupid way to kill yourself.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
Wow. What a fantastically fucking stupid way to kill yourself.

Hard to argue with that success rate, though...

I watched the video about 10 times, I know this is sick and morbid but all I could think of was Wiley E. Coyote when his parachute blew off and he just went up, up, up, then down, down, down...BAM!

Human lawn dart.