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He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:05 pm
by Eraser
or death, more likely
Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet (549 metres) high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.
Assuming the 500-mph (805-kmh), mile-long (1.6 km-long) flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program.
Hughes's ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof of the disc we all live on.
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He won't be able to test the rocket before he climbs inside and attempts to steam himself at 500 mph (805 kmh) across a mile (1.6 km) of desert air.
https://www.sciencealert.com/man-launch ... th-is-flat
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:06 pm
by MKJ
sciencealert? more like moron alert
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:29 pm
by seremtan
what a fucking bellend
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:52 pm
by phantasmagoria
inb4 he burns up and it's blamed on an Illuminati conspiracy.
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:05 pm
by SoM
i want his drugs
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 2:05 pm
by xer0s
[youtube]x3vcSab13Sk[/youtube]
It’s scary these people are out there...
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:49 pm
by obsidian
Isn't he afraid that he'll crash into the glass domed bubble that holds the sky up?
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:05 pm
by Whiskey 7
xer0s wrote:It’s scary these people are out there...
They are and they walk the streets as we do. They could be your neighbour.
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:16 am
by Whiskey 7
I just had time to start reading......
Mr Hughes is a 61-year-old limousine driver who has spent the past few years building a steam-powered rocket out of salvage parts in his garage in the United States
What, not the first flight
This will actually be the second time he has constructed and launched a rocket.
In 2014 he travelled nearly 420m and collapsed after that landing — the G-forces taking a toll — and needed three days to recover. time he's done this
Source
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:12 am
by losCHUNK
There's a vid of it
[youtube]3feaiPcv6yE[/youtube]
[youtube]fp2q_dKuc-c[/youtube]
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:35 am
by eukara
Re: About flat-earthers
I'm more upset about people still using Mercator projections everwhere.
GREENLAND IS NOT THAT BIG. DAMMIT PEOPLE!
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:46 am
by Mat Linnett
Maybe YGP's head is a Mercator projection.
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:26 am
by Eraser
xer0s wrote:It’s scary these people are out there...
"How do you know the Earth is flat?"
"Uhh... well... I've watched over 50 hours of video".
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:36 am
by Eraser
losCHUNK wrote:[youtube]3feaiPcv6yE[/youtube]
Picking up a man by his arms and legs like that seems like a thoroughly well thought through action after an impact like this.
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:26 pm
by Κracus
Couldn't you just put a fucking go pro on it instead? What a fucking moron.
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:10 pm
by Eraser
Indeed.
But people are also saying he isn't a flat earther at all but couldn't find anyone to finance his rocket and simply tried to lure flat earthers int paying for it.
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:12 pm
by seremtan
[lvlshot]https://i.imgur.com/PdcRKGq.jpg[/lvlshot]
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:14 pm
by Eraser
I do love how they reference to the atmosphere as the atmosflat.
Oh, and
[lvlshot]https://i.redd.it/4pgoefvjx0zz.jpg[/lvlshot]
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 3:00 pm
by Doombrain
xer0s wrote:[youtube]x3vcSab13Sk[/youtube]
It’s scary these people are out there...
All American too...
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:05 pm
by xer0s
Ok...?
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 8:26 pm
by Eraser
Well, he won't be dying today
Hughes told the Washington Post, Big Daddy Government has thrown a few obstacles in his way. Per the Post, the Bureau of Land Management has confirmed it had no record of giving Hughes “verbal permission” to hold the rocket launch on public lands as he had previously claimed, meaning that the rocketeer has decided to delay the launch date and move the location “three miles down the road.”
https://gizmodo.com/flat-earth-research ... 735736/amp
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:30 pm
by losCHUNK
That pussy
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:47 pm
by Eraser
He did it.
https://gizmodo.com/at-long-last-flat-e ... 1824059035
Well, up to 1875 feet, which is... well... I guess a lot for a steam powered rocket
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:18 pm
by Whiskey 7
I am still having a problem believing it is steam powered but then I watch videos of those aircraft carrier catapults. He is launched by similar I suppose
Re: He is in for one big disappointment
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:41 pm
by Transient
You gotta hand it to him, at least he's trying to prove his theory.