I wonder if the guy believed in gravity.
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I was talking about this with my wife yesterday. What a weird paradox, someone who, AT THE SAME TIME, is dumb enough to be a flat earther, yet smart enough to make a rocket that could kill him.
Interesting times.
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My thoughts as well, although there is some idea that he was just grifting a bunch of flat-earther morons out of their money so that he could build a rocket to launch himselfā¦a few hundred feet up into the sky.
Which begs a different question: If you are smart enough to build a rocket that would launch up into the sky, why are you dumb enough to launch yourself up into the sky?
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I donāt really understand the plan. Like, how did he plan to land if he successfully reached the edge of the atmosphere? I donāt think he thought that through.
If you watch the video his parachute opened early an tore off due to the rockets acceleration.
Seems like something youād want redundancy on.
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Back when I was a sciencey little bugger a guy from NASA visited our school and he told us how space ships were built.
In that he said something that stuck with me, which was āRedundancy is only redundant until you need it.ā.
We all laughed because it sounded funny at the time.
Turns out he was right.
Even if the parachute opened, he still would have landed at like 20mph to dead stop on ground which would have meant near certain injury. The appollo capsules landed in water for a reason.
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99% of those laughing at him donāt have the smarts to determine whether the Earth is flat or spherical. They have the smarts to accept what people who are smart are telling them, which could be smarts but most likely just one of our more primative survival instincts.
Personally, I donāt mind this guy. He didnāt accept what he was hearing and wanted to test for himself. If he had got up there and changed his views, that would make him a pretty awesome kind of person.
What is dumb is dying over something so inconsequential to almost everyone on this planet.
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Not to derail the thread, but I disagree with this one - doesnāt take much to research the evidence out there. Itās kind of like those who say vaccines cause autism. There are hundreds of peer reviewed studies showing the autism incidence in kids with or without vaccines is nearly identical - but people still believe that nonsense.
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Iāve been in a plane before! Donāt worry, Iām part of the 1%.
I donāt mind this guy either. Success is relative. When the universe hands you a freebie you say āTHANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER.ā
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An old high school buddy of mine is a flat earther. What this guy did is demonstrated by action what flat earthers have been doing metaphorically for a long time, which is choosing your hill to die upon.
I donāt quite unde stand the attraction to the subject, but I do like to watch with morbid fascination as otherwise relatively normal people gut themselves like an obstinate hippy on LSD racing face first toward a giant slip and slide covered with razor blades.
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I am going to steal this simile for later use.
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People that drink and post. 
Strong hintā¦
You rang?
I think we really need a stronger hintā¦
Only if your goal is to be a strong man.
(it was mostly a sarcastic assumption)
When I did martial arts, part of our warm up was squatted down jumps (so jump in a squatting position) and duck walks up and down the training area.
Without fail, at least 2 people would fart during those drills. I was talking about this with a friend today - now that I think about, I swear our instructor was doing that just to laugh at the farting.
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