This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat

Washington Post ^ | 11/21/17 | Avi Selk

[SkyDancer]

Well huh. Stupidity knows no bounds. So they’re saying all those planets out there are flat disks also?

[EQAndyBuzz]

Gotta give the guy credit. He pretty much knows he is going to turn into soup the minute his rocket hits the ground and yet he still wants to get in it, light the candle and see how high he can go...... to see if mother erf is flat.

I bet when someone asks him, “what kind of idiot would do this?” he has no answer.

[Gen.Blather]

I have observational evidence that the world is not flat. If the world was flat, cats would have knocked everything over the edge by now.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html

[Arthur McGowan]

He’s not eligible. At his age, he’s probably already reproduced.

[DocRock]

Ah, I probably got this idea by reading your tagline some time. But I left off the “by now” part. Next time I steal this saying, I’ll say, “by meow” to keep in the good humor of Super Troopers ‘cat game’.

Oh, do you know why the flat earthers never just drive to the edge? Because they always get sidetracked by a Sasquatch sighting!

[NorthMountain]

So they’re saying all those planets out there are flat disks also?

Pretty sure "no". I'm not quite certain what they think Moon, Mars, Venus, etc. actually are. Didn't really get that far. But we have never visited any of them, either with robotic or manned spacecraft. Because you can't get past the firmament, in which they're set.

[Responsibility2nd]

A homeade rocket? Don't be a fool, man. Go with Acme. They are the best.

[clamper1797]

Beat me to it ... the only this flat is this idiots head

[dayglored]

> Do we have to wait to give him the Darwin Award?

Far too late. He's 61, if he was gonna reproduce, he likely did so decades ago.

[Arthur McGowan]

Hillary’s 2020 campaign plane.

[Vendome]

guy had his brain stem removed?

What is a round-Earth Freemasons???

[cyclotic]

Larry Walters in his lawn chair and weather balloons got higher and farther.

My son is an aerospace engineering student. He’s coming home tonight. Can’t wait to get his reaction to this guy.

[katana]

If he manages to take off without being vaporized, the end of his flight will demonstrate that the Earth is hard.

[kjam22]

0 to 500 mph in 1800 feet is gonna stress him just a little

[Vendome]

Yes.

The rules are written in stone....

[Rastus]

Nope.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Just another Washington comPost employee.

[Dahoser]

“It’ll shut the door on this ball earth,” Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday’s flight.

I'm sorry, did you say fundraising as in dopes giving you money for this? Well I suppose Kyrie Irving has to spend his millions on something other than life-size dartboards of LeBron.

[Dutch Boy]

His final words, "Hey! The earth!" SPLAT. (not flat)