Flat earth expedition

ohnonotgmail · 24-02-2020 11:06AM

I cant be the only one whose first thought was that it looked like a real life Wile E Coyote cartoon.

Jim_Hodge · 24-02-2020 11:07AM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I cant be the only one whose first thought was that it looked like a real life Wile E Coyote cartoon.

You're not, but you said it first.

10000maniacs · 24-02-2020 11:07AM

Never put an idiot in charge of a rocket.

Sonics2k · 24-02-2020 11:09AM

Various Flat Earther sites are now claiming he was killed off by the Deep State to prevent him from unveiling the truth.

Wanderer78 · 24-02-2020 11:11AM

Sonics2k wrote:

Various Flat Earther sites are now claiming he was killed off by the Deep State to prevent him from unveiling the truth.

Its true, stupid deep state

B.A._Baracus · 24-02-2020 11:40AM

Posted this on another part of boards but here might be a good place too.

So someone registered www.flatearth.ie and it will redirect you towards another site. Link isn't NSFW. Won't spoil the joke so just click it

Graces7 · 24-02-2020 12:39PM

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

You do realise it killed him, don't you?

Free as a bird alright.

Of course, and what a way to go...

Boggles · 24-02-2020 12:43PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Of course, and what a way to go...

Completely out of control and hitting the ground like a fúcking dart?

What a way indeed.

Graces7 · 24-02-2020 12:55PM

Boggles wrote: »

Completely out of control and hitting the ground like a fúcking dart?

What a way indeed.

But as the earth is not flat he did not fall off the edge... So it is all hypothetical.

And if it were flat then no ground to hit?

Free fall into space?

EmmetSpiceland · 24-02-2020 01:07PM

Graces7 wrote: »

But as the earth is not flat he did not fall off the edge... So it is all hypothetical.

And if it were flat then no ground to hit?

Free fall into space?

It is believed that he didn’t really believe in the whole “flat earth” thing. It was just a way for him to raise funds to launch his rockets.

SeaFields · 24-02-2020 01:08PM

The second comment on that Twitter video :-

"The Earth is still round. Mad Mike Hughes is flat. RIP"

B.A._Baracus · 24-02-2020 01:14PM

SeaFields wrote: »

The second comment on that Twitter video :-

"The Earth is still round. Mad Mike Hughes is flat. RIP"

Not directed at you, but it's a weird world we live in.
If someone believes in something differently to you, it's ok to laugh at their death. But in other cases it'd be seen as wrong + rude.

Removalist · 24-02-2020 01:15PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I cant be the only one whose first thought was that it looked like a real life Wile E Coyote cartoon.

You are correct seeing as the very first comment under the video on twitter mentioned Wile E Coyote.

CrabRevolution · 24-02-2020 01:22PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Not directed at you, but it's a weird world we live in.
If someone believes in something differently to you, it's ok to laugh at their death. But in other cases it'd be seen as wrong + rude.

I think it's more that if someone willfully denies an objective fact and ignores all good advice and reason in order to recklessly endanger themselves on a pointless mission to prove their obviously false idea, it's easy to laugh.

There's no "different beliefs" when it comes to the shape of the earth.

B.A._Baracus · 24-02-2020 01:24PM

CrabRevolution wrote: »

I think it's more that if someone willfully denies an objective fact and ignores all good advice and reason in order to recklessly endanger themselves on a pointless mission to prove their obviously false idea, it's easy to laugh.

There's no "different beliefs" when it comes to the shape of the earth.

For the record I don't believe the earth is flat

But come on. A guy died. Was he stupid for doing this? of course. But Im not really gonna laugh at his death.

quokula · 24-02-2020 01:29PM

From reading the details it sounds like he was basically a daredevil who liked doing stunts (and was doing them long before the flat earth movement was a thing) and discovered he could leverage flat earth for publicity and funding.

The rocket launch was being filmed for a legit TV show, it had a main parachute which incorrectly deployed on take off and backup parachutes which failed to deploy, so I don't think he was on any kind of suicidal mission to prove anything and this was just a tragic accident.

alchemist33 · 24-02-2020 01:34PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

For the record I don't believe the earth is flat
But come on. A guy died. Was he stupid for doing this? of course. But Im not really gonna laugh at his death.

That video was actually a difficult watch for me, imagining his terror as he fell

EasyG · 24-02-2020 01:59PM

At the very end of the video, if you listen closely, you can just about hear a 'Meep Meep' sound off in the distance.

CrabRevolution · 24-02-2020 02:00PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

For the record I don't believe the earth is flat
But come on. A guy died. Was he stupid for doing this? of course. But Im not really gonna laugh at his death.

Taking joy in his death is wrong, yes but my reaction is more of a "who saw that coming...?". It's the absurdity and incredibly predictable end of it.

check_six · 24-02-2020 02:05PM

If flat Earth 'science' was his real aim I suppose he could have used that large drone visible to the left in the video to go to higher altitudes than he was planning in the steam rocket. Think the thrillseeker theory could be correct.

10000maniacs · 24-02-2020 02:07PM

EasyG wrote: »

At the end of the video, if you listen closely, you can just about hear a Meep Meep sound off in the distance.

I was waiting for the circular puff of dust coming up like in the Roadrunner cartoon.

This is on par with the priest who took off in a basket with hundreds of helium balloons and ended up in the Atlantic ocean.

randd1 · 24-02-2020 02:46PM

I've got to be honest, as tragic as it is that someone has died, this is one of the most hilarious for sheer absurdity stories I've heard in a long time.

Man dies in home made steam powered rocket whose parachutes failed while trying to prove Earth is flat.

What a headline to see. It should be his epitaph, death doesn't get more epically messed up than that.

jammiedodgers · 24-02-2020 02:51PM

He died doing what he loved.

Being a moron.

CrabRevolution · 24-02-2020 05:59PM

As was said before, I got the impression his real passion was steam powered rockets, and that he jumped on the flat earth bandwagon to get more attention and relieve them of some money.

Not that homemade steam powered manned rockets are a much more logical pursuit than flat earthism.

Quantum Erasure · 24-02-2020 05:59PM

Boggles wrote: »

what was he hoping to achieve, exactly?

"Mad" Mike Hughes sought to prove his theory that the Earth was flat

Should have worked on the theory of not ejecting the rockets parachute at take off.

yeah, but how, what evidence was he looking for [or flat-earthers in general who try this stunt] that would prove or disprove his theory either way? if you've ever looked at flat earth theory, you'd see the mad lengths they go to twist facts and evidence to fit the theory,

Boggles · 25-02-2020 09:33AM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

yeah, but how, what evidence was he looking for [or flat-earthers in general who try this stunt] that would prove or disprove his theory either way? if you've ever looked at flat earth theory, you'd see the mad lengths they go to twist facts and evidence to fit the theory,

He goes up 50 miles.

Looks out the window and sees the Earth is flat, then he takes pictures. Was the general idea I think.

TBF to Mad Mike it would appear he only used flat earth nuts to finance his rockets, because he loved rockets.

He could have sent a camera up with a balloon, but that ain't Mad Mikes style.

pawdee · 25-02-2020 09:58AM

Actually, it's a little more complicated than a lot of people understand. The world is actually cylindrical. When the ice caps are gone (in about a year and a half because of burgers) and the whole world is beige and arid, the world will resemble a cardboard toilet roll tube.

All it's going to take then is one massive earthquake (along the spiral shaped Andrew's Fault) for the world to unravel and become flat. And all of this within our lifetime. Why can't Trump get his thick head around this and listen to Gretel Thunderbird? And don't get me started on the Really Hays.

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