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Flat-Earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes killed in crash-landing after homemade rocket launch (VIDEO)
February 23, 2020, 03:06 PM
arfmelFlat-Earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes killed in crash-landing after homemade rocket launch (VIDEO)
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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.
February 23, 2020, 03:22 PM
LunaseeHe was just trying to spread his "flat earth" theory. Looks like he did a good job.
February 23, 2020, 03:35 PM
mark123quote:
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?"
February 23, 2020, 04:26 PM
GJGTake away: The Earth isn't flat
But now he is.
Light bender eye mender
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February 23, 2020, 04:32 PM
sigfreundquote:
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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To operate serious weapons in a serious manner. February 23, 2020, 04:37 PM
TigerDorequote:
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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February 23, 2020, 05:01 PM
kkinaquote:
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.
February 23, 2020, 05:04 PM
18DAIMost folks never heard of him and now, he's all over the place.
He just sailed right out there!
Regards 18DAI
7+1 Rounds of hope and change
February 23, 2020, 05:05 PM
ScreamingCockatooSplat Earther...
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
February 23, 2020, 06:51 PM
medic451
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist" February 23, 2020, 07:11 PM
corsairAmboy...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.
February 23, 2020, 07:18 PM
sunburnA rocket with a trailer hitch?
Lick the lollipop of mediocrity once and you suck forever.
February 23, 2020, 07:22 PM
kkinaquote:
Originally posted by sunburn:
A rocket with a trailer hitch?
Maybe it's a TOW missile?
February 23, 2020, 07:29 PM
YooperSigsI am certain to be bound for hell for doing so, but the trailer hitch made me laugh!
End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
February 23, 2020, 07:42 PM
darthfusterquote:
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
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier February 23, 2020, 07:47 PM
radiomanquote:
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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February 23, 2020, 07:52 PM
kkinaquote:
Originally posted by radioman:
quote:
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)
February 23, 2020, 08:26 PM
ArtieSWow. What a fantastically fucking stupid way to kill yourself.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
February 23, 2020, 09:06 PM
46and2quote:
Originally posted by ArtieS:
Wow. What a fantastically fucking stupid way to kill yourself.
Hard to argue with that success rate, though...
February 23, 2020, 09:38 PM
PASigI 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.
