Posted on 11/23/2017 4:54:27 PM PST by sparklite2
A California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a home-built rocket to prove that astronauts faked the shape of the Earth.
Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, said his stunt will be the first phase of the flat-Earth space program, sponsored by Research Flat Earth, a group that believes Earth is, well, flat.
He claims to have built the steam-powered rocket out of scrap metal parts in his garage. The project cost around $20,000, including the purchase of a motor home off Craigslist that was converted into a ramp.
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If this is true, then why do all the navigation formulates are based on the premise of a round earth work? Also, why is it that sailors who are sailing south always lose sight of the North Star when they reach the equator. Further why do people always lose sight of a ship’s mast when the ship reaches the point where it dips below the horizon, something that’s only possible with a round earth.
Research and Flat Earth? that's a classic oxymoron. Thanks sparklite2.
1800, you could get that with a model rocket
Except that’s a hemisphere on the backs of the elephants !
But you’re right its turtles all the way down!
Stinky Pete was Ready!
That some Funny chitlins.
The only thing that will be flat is him...flat as a pancake.
Another thread from a couple days ago with over
176 comments if anyone cares to scan thru them.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3606909/posts
This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
Mad Mike Hughes Rocket Jump Youtube 1:14
Videos longer than a couple minutes don’t hold my interest.
But this one had me laughing out loud and held up for ten minutes. Thanks for posting. I highly recommend clicking on your link.
Or maybe people’s eyesight is just poor... /JK
I hope he consulted with Wile E. Coyote (Sooper Geenus) on ballistics and trajectories. That crazy animal has a lifetime’s worth of invaluable, first-hand experience in applied rocket science.
will the policy pay out if he wins a darwin award? cuz this is how you win a darwin award.
Why can't he just drive that high into the mountains?
He’ll discover the definition of flat when that thing slams into the Earf.
Glad I’m not in his flight path.
I hope he makes it!
Nah...who am I kidding.
Die Moron!
Actually, flat earthers think there is a dome over the flat earth.
If the earth is flat how thick does he believe it is?
As a tangent (?) to that thought, couldn’t he just go out onto a flat calm sea and ‘prove’ how flat the earth is, right there? Seems to me, if he wants to prove flatness, leaving the face of the Earth would not be the way to prove it; in other words, the higher he goes, the rounder it gets.
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