Homemade rocket man is about to prove the earth is flat...

DisrupTor75 · 22 Nov 2017 at 02:32

Spotted this earlier and found it amusing that someone is so serious about this madness that he's willing to sink $20,000 into proving it live via his youtube channel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...7f14b73162a_story.html?utm_term=.709f9e531254
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...7f14b73162a_story.html?utm_term=.709f9e531254
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...7f14b73162a_story.html?utm_term=.709f9e531254

Predicting a total failure on this but even if he manages to get it off the ground it may end up being his last daredevil stunt.

This will actually be the second time he’s constructed and launched a rocket. He jumped on a private property in Winkelman, Arizona, on Jan. 30, 2014 , and traveled 1,374 feet. He collapsed after that landing — the G-forces taking a toll — and needed three days to recover.

Raymond Lin · 22 Nov 2017 at 03:13

Darwin will get him eventually.

I do wonder, if the world is flat, which country or city do they believe is on the edges and which place is the centre of the world?

LabR@t · 22 Nov 2017 at 06:10

Raymond Lin said:
Darwin will get him eventually.

I do wonder, if the world is flat, which country or city do they believe is on the edges and which place is the centre of the world?

It's obviously ocean at the edges :rolleyes:

Raymond Lin · 22 Nov 2017 at 06:12

LabR@t said:
It's obviously ocean at the edges

Actually, they believe it’s an ice wall...

Glaucus · 22 Nov 2017 at 06:25

He be dumb.

Supercow · 22 Nov 2017 at 06:26

Wish more flat earthers, young earth creationists etc, all shoot themselves into orbit.

AHarvey · 22 Nov 2017 at 06:42

Glaucus said:
He be dumb.

Think he's a bloody genius, think of how much revenue that will generate for him from his $20k investment.

Saying that...steam powered rocket. Can't wait to see it in action

Malevolence · 22 Nov 2017 at 07:00

I don't believe in science,” said Hughes, whose main sponsor for the rocket is Research Flat Earth. “I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that's just a formula. There's no difference between science and science fiction.

Dunna worry fella, science believes in you. So here's something else that's 'just a formula' F = m Δv/Δt

theone8181 · 22 Nov 2017 at 07:28

Raymond Lin said:
Darwin will get him eventually.

I do wonder, if the world is flat, which country or city do they believe is on the edges and which place is the centre of the world?

Obviously they believe america is at that centre as everything revolves around that

. I still dont understand how people think its flat, surely these types of people should be rounded up by men in white coats?

Hades · 22 Nov 2017 at 07:31

Glaucus said:
He be dead.

IFTFY

/\ndy · 22 Nov 2017 at 07:56

LOL

Surely all he has to do is google the earth images from space to see that its round? just lmao

peterwalkley · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:01

Cursed Americans always having to go one better. We have a guy who builds a death trap from an elise and ebay, this guy does with with a rocket. Surprised there aren't lasers in there as well.

Sankari · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:08

This will be fun. I can just imagine the newspaper reports...

'Police recovered the shattered remains of Mr Hughes from the wreckage within hours. In a cruelly ironic twist of fate, his body had been squashed flat...'

LeMson · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:14

Fair play to him if he is going to be onboard it, fly safe feller!

robfosters · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:28

Just read it and yep, he’s brown bread.

Nasher · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:30

Where can we donate? I wan't to see this

MookJong · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:36

The money made from his YouTube channel will cushion the blow of finding out the earth is round....won't cushion the landing if it goes wrong though.

d_brennen · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:37

Forget donating to this fool, I want to know how we can crowd fund an entire Flat Earth space agency. We need to launch as many as possible

AHarvey · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:49

/\ndy said:
LOL

Surely all he has to do is google the earth images from space to see that its round? just lmao

Don't you know all the government agencies and big business companies are colluding to push the fable that the earth is round!!!!!!!!!

Nasher · 22 Nov 2017 at 08:53

AHarvey said:
Don't you know all the government agencies and big business companies are colluding to push the fable that the earth is round!!!!!!!!!

And every single pilot apparently.