A Hughes failure: Flat Earther rocketeer can't get it up yet again An American bloke, who reckons Earth is flat as a frisbee, is on a quest to send himself into space to verify his theory. And on Sunday, he failed to even launch a rocket to a few hundred feet. Limousine driver, self-taught rocket maker, and headline generator "Mad" Mike Hughes hoped to blast off his homemade rocket from …
Anyway, how do they explain satellites in orbit, how GPS works, how compasses work, that we can measure our rotation relative to the moon, sun and planets, observe them with telescopes, the phases of the moon, and the above point how otherwise could you sail or fly round the planet?!
Anyway, how do they explain satellites in orbit, how GPS works, how compasses work, that we can measure our rotation relative to the moon, sun and planets, observe them with telescopes, the phases of the moon, and the above point how otherwise could you sail or fly round the planet?!
None of them produces "youtuber ad revenue". Move along.
Anyway, how do they explain satellites in orbit, how GPS works, how compasses work, that we can measure our rotation relative to the moon, sun and planets, observe them with telescopes, the phases of the moon, and the above point how otherwise could you sail or fly round the planet?!
Epicycles.
"how do they explain satellites in orbit, how GPS works, how compasses work..."
I dont believe there is anyone on the planet who thinks the world is flat. I've looked for their websites before now. Plenty of people might say they are a Flat Earther , but they are just attention seeking.
I think there is a "society" but its had to radically revise its main policy and ethos to "ok the earth is round , Us "Flat earthers" will now fight for common sense instead, like our name suggests"
"Plenty of people might say they are a Flat Earther , but they are just attention seeking."
You might think, but gullibility (especially in the US) has no apparent physical limits. Just look for instance at # people who believe in religion and / or deny things with overwhelming scientific and directly observable evidence like evolution and anthropomorphic global warming.
This illustrates it quite well I find: https://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
"Rubbish! Everybody knows 1,800 feet isn't high enough to observe the Great A'Tuin in all its majesty"
That is one way of describing the act of looking up the business end of a turtle to determine its sex (AKA "The Big Bang Theory").
Oh brutah how I miss the smell of a freshly printed Discworld novel. Today was perfect reading weather and here I am with one less favorite author around. 'Buggrit.
ah... for those unfamiliar with what has now become, like belief it invisible friends, MASSIVE* with our transatlantic cousins - this youtuber is a good summary of what they believe in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgY8zNZ35uw
*I get comments from the flatards on my paramotor videos claiming it proves you can see the edge, etc... the ignorance is astounding.
so spherical trigonometry is a mystery to them. Orbital mechanics, therefore, is "right out".
Well, to be fair, trigonometry is a mystery to me as well. What I finally managed to learn at school (not all of it) is now a long-forgotten memory. And so for me, orbital mechanics is also right out.
I helped with my nephew's homework last year, and realised that I've completely forgotten how to do long division.
Don't tell anyone that I do water system design calculations for a living...
Pfft, you know nothing, flying around the 'globe' is obviously impossible because your plane would be upside down by the time you got to Australia if the earth wasn't flat.
Remember, the moron is strong with the flat earthers, there is an amazing demo of that by a British GP.
Seems that effort never quite (sorry:) got off the ground:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Tag/lohan
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/02/lohan_faa/
I'm guessing mainly because the driving force behind it, Lester Haines, checked out permanently a little over a year ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/27/the_life_and_times_of_lester_haines/
To be clear: not a flat Earther, so don't lump me with them.
But global is probably not a word that would fit them very well, considering that its etymology is derived from precisely what they don't believe to be true. Maybe they'd think of themselves as a `truly flat organization` instead, which has the advantage of fitting corporate jargon. Truly planar?
..Or he doesn't even have to leave San Bernardino county. Just drive about an hour west to the Rim of the World Highway. Some of those passes are above 8,000 feet.
<quote>..Or he doesn't even have to leave San Bernardino county. Just drive about an hour west to the Rim of the World Highway. Some of those passes are above 8,000 feet.</quote>
Rim of the World Highway. Did you see that, everyone? **RIM OF THE WORLD** HIGHWAY.
They were hiding it in plain sight all along. Just toying with us. The bastards.
re Forthisnotdead
I'm somewhat confuddled now.
A friend of mine, at the actual pub and not facebook, last night said that he'd recently experienced the Rim of the World, nonTM, and yet i'm sure he's also said he's never been outside the UK, certainly not San Bernadino and certainly not by train.
Surely there must be some other explanation?
"I'm somewhat confuddled now.
"A friend of mine, at the actual pub and not facebook, last night said that he'd recently experienced the Rim of the World, nonTM, and yet i'm sure he's also said he's never been outside the UK, certainly not San Bernadino and certainly not by train.
"Surely there must be some other explanation?"
How much had your friend been drinking?
> Alternatively he could just say that he went half mile up and the Earth is flat as a pancake. Then ask for more money to go even further to confirm this.
And, if by some miracle, he gets high enough to be able to the whole of the earth's disk is in his field of vision without killing himself, he won't be able to discern any vertical curvature and will triumphantly claim that the earth is a flat disk (with features like continents sliding across it). :-)
<quote>Alternatively he could just say that he went half mile up and the Earth is flat as a pancake. Then ask for more money to go even further to confirm this. Rinse, repeat. </quote>
This sounds like a very good ploy for getting the gullible and the stupid, who outnumber the wise and wonderful, to pay for flights to Mars.
"We just need some more funding for the RTG's, the glasshouses and the Lunar Farside telescopes and we'll *finally* outwit the lying NASA/JPL/NSA bastards. Send donations to SpaceX at ..."
Sending up a steam-driven rocket to check whether the Earth is flat? This was already tried many decades ago and described by the BBC in the report "Wings Over Dagenham" first broadcast on 10 January 1957.
Flat Earth Society member: Er, could you slow down just a bit here, I want to take that photograph of the Earth.
Eccles: Oh here. I just saw the Earth through the clouds.
Flat Earth Society member: Did it look round?
Eccles: Yeah, but I don't think it saw me.
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