A ‘Self-Taught Rocket Scientist’ Is Planning to Launch Himself...to Prove the Earth Is Flat

The Western Journal ^ | 25 Nov, 2017 | Andrew Kerr

[steve8714]

Hold my beer. Watch this.

[MD Expat in PA]

I don’t doubt that there are a few “flat eathers” who are nothing more than contrarians, jokesters, “Poes” or trolls, but again many of them actually believe there is a vast conspiracy to cover up the “truth” that the Earth is flat. They also believe that the Moon landings were fake and satellite images are photo shopped. I’ve encountered a few of them here on FR and other places. And they are serious.

My nephew has a friend who is a flat earther and he is very serious and very passionate about it. His friend also believes that the Moon landings were faked, that 9/11 was an inside job and a controlled demolition and that Sandy Hook was a completely faked event, that no children were killed that day, all were actors and pretty much every conspiracy theory out there ….and we’ve got some of them here too.

Try as my nephew can to provide him with proof the Earth is a sphere and does orbit the Sun, nothing he says makes any difference because his friend will always answer with “that’s what they want you to believe”, that all the data, the pictures, the history books, etc. is all faked. When my nephew asked him about being able to see the curvature of the Earth while traveling in a jet at high altitude, his friend’s answer is that commercial and military airplanes have windows are “fisheye” lenses thus only appearing to make the Earth look like a sphere. UG!!!

But just the other night I saw proof that the Earth is not flat.

On Friday at around 5:30 PM I went out to the grocery store to pick up a couple of things. As I was driving south along a road coming down from ridge, I saw a rather large white fireball streak across the southern sky, moving left to right, about 15 degrees above the horizon. I lost sight of it behind some trees just as it appeared to break up.

Wanting to confirm that what I saw was what I thought it was, a meteor, when I got home from the store I found this website.

https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/4582

Note that the sightings were limited to the east coast of the US, as far north as NY and as far south as NC and as far west as western MD and western VA but nowhere else. Not west of western MD and VA, not further north of NY, not in the mid-west, mid-south, western states, west coast, nor in Europe, Asia, etc….

Also note that the further south and east the observers were, the higher the reported elevation of the fireball was relative to their position, the farther north and west, the lower the elevation.

Those independent observations are only possible if the Earth is spherical. If the Earth was a flat disk, then the fireball should have been visible to everyone on Earth at the same time and at the same elevation.

Was Galileo in on this? Did Columbus know he was destined to fail?

Of course there are many other things that prove the Earth is spherical and not flat. And contrary to what some people where taught as children, no Columbus wasn’t the only person who thought the Earth wasn’t flat at the time, it was widely understood to be spherical by most.

And you don’t even have to go back to Copernicus or Galileo. The ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes of Cyrene who was born in 276 BC figured it out with an experiment measuring the angle of shadows cast by the same sized towers in different locations on the summer solstice.

Using this experiment, Eratosthenes was the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by applying a measuring system using stadia, a standard unit of measure during that time period. His calculation was remarkably accurate. He was also the first to calculate the tilt of the Earth's axis (again with remarkable accuracy). Additionally, he may have accurately calculated the distance from the Earth to the Sun and invented the leap day. He created the first map of the world, incorporating parallels and meridians based on the available geographic knowledge of his era.

[Hot Tabasco]

So who took the bottom photo or was he carrying a selfie-stick?

[mc5cents]

Was your nephew's friend in this commercial per chance?

[Doogle]

"...I love the smell of warm popcorn in the morning...I just can't remember which bowl I left a turd in"

[Maskot]

Something is gonna be flat and it ain’t earth.

[Maskot]

Something is gonna be flat and it ain’t earth.

[broken_arrow1]

A $20,000 flying coffin.

[babygene]

“Does that have sufficient initial thrust?”

The short answer is yes. Highly concentrated H2o2 in the presents of a suitable catalyst breaks down into H2O and oxygen and a tremendous amount of heat. This requires concentrations in the order of 90 plus percent. (the stuff you get at the drug store for a buck a bottle is 3percent)

[Sirius Lee]

A $20,000 flying coffin.

Could have bought a used Beechcraft Bonanza for that amount and got the same effect.

[hal ogen]

Wouldn’t it be easier to drive to the top of Mt Evens in Colorado (which is paved all the way to the top at 14,600 feet)? This guy isn’t as “scientist”...he is a lunatic.

[Robert DeLong]

Hughes’ initial plan was to launch his rocket Saturday over the ghost town of Amboy, California. However, he was forced to relocate after the Bureau of Land Management caught wind of the planned stunt.

[bgill]

Rushing out now to buy life insurance on him.

[Big Red Badger]

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“CRATERS! “

[Professional Engineer]

Did he start with the drum from a concrete truck?

[minnesota_bound]

When “Mad” Mike Hughes rocket landed he was as flat as the Earth.

[Hotmetal]

I follow a flat earth group for my daily laughs. Their answer to that is all the windows on jets are curved and cause a fisheye lens effect with any camera you use causing the photo to show a curve.