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Flat Earther to Launch Rocket Proving Earth is not Round

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There was this rather silly yet practical video I saw ages ago......Let me go find it.

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The 2nd part of the video where they have a giant round mirror orbiting the Earth is what I am talking about, from the reflections in the mirror you can see Earth is round.
Cool -- I like VSauce and hadn't seen that one. :techman: As for the flat Earthers, they'll agree it's round, but as a disc instead of a sphere. This would easily prove it spherical, as all you need to do is have people reporting all along as it orbits. Nobody will see an "edge" for the Earth's reflection. Perspective always remains the same because it's a sphere. ;)
 
What will it accomplish. Scenario One: He goes kaboom. It was a lizard people conspiracy. Scenario Two: He sees a round Earth. He thinks lizard people conspiracy. Scenario Three: He sees a round Earth, changes his mind. The others think he has been brainwashed by a lizard people conspiracy.
 
What will it accomplish. Scenario One: He goes kaboom. It was a lizard people conspiracy. Scenario Two: He sees a round Earth. He thinks lizard people conspiracy. Scenario Three: He sees a round Earth, changes his mind. The others think he has been brainwashed by a lizard people conspiracy.

:shrug: True
 
Things could be worse. He could have made a fully functioning rocket and end up in LEO and get stuck there..... Then they'd have to rescue the idiot
 
What will it accomplish. Scenario One: He goes kaboom. It was a lizard people conspiracy. Scenario Two: He sees a round Earth. He thinks lizard people conspiracy. Scenario Three: He sees a round Earth, changes his mind. The others think he has been brainwashed by a lizard people conspiracy.

I feel sorry for the Lizard people, they are being dragged into this against their will, they don't want anything to do with flat earthers. lol
 
Things could be worse. He could have made a fully functioning rocket and end up in LEO and get stuck there..... Then they'd have to rescue the idiot

I know!

SURELY there must be a guy out ther who thinks there is no such thing as gravity and that it's all a myth and the government is generating something that is keeping us all down and that if he can launch something just high enough, it'll escape and prove there is no such thing as gravity.

I propose he launch a missile. At the rocket.
 
SURELY there must be a guy out ther who thinks there is no such thing as gravity and that it's all a myth and the government is generating something that is keeping us all down and that if he can launch something just high enough, it'll escape and prove there is no such thing as gravity.

CLOSE. This idiot's/con artist's memes are all over Facebook.
Rationalwiki said:
Wolfe believes that gravity is a toxin, and by turning yourself on your head you can turn gravity into a cure for arthritis
 
SURELY there must be a guy out ther who thinks there is no such thing as gravity and that it's all a myth and the government is generating something that is keeping us all down and that if he can launch something just high enough, it'll escape and prove there is no such thing as gravity.
I seem to recall Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist) thinks gravity works because everthing in the universe is accrlerating in size - however, his theory doesn't explain why different bodies have different gravitational accelerations yet their relative sizes don't change or how orbits work. He has a similarly wacky theory about why evolution by natural selection is wrong. I don't recall the details - life's too short to try to deal with innumerable bozo theories.
 
I seem to recall Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist) thinks gravity works because everthing in the universe is accrlerating in size - however, his theory doesn't explain why different bodies have different gravitational accelerations yet their relative sizes don't change or how orbits work. He has a similarly wacky theory about why evolution by natural selection is wrong. I don't recall the details - life's too short to try to deal with innumerable bozo theories.

well in 2016 adams showed he doesn't know shit from shinola - so that theory is just doubling down on the stupid.

but only 5 more days till our flat-earther is going to launch himself coinciding with the Superbowl so expect more conspiracy theory when he doesn't get a huge audience (assuming he launches and survives).
 
I look forward to a looping gif of the explosion. I'll call it: Stupid Idiot Explosion Day. Or something like that. Maybe I'll get some candy.
 
I don't know why it didn't occur to me this might happen. He's not ... exactly a rocket scientist. ;-)


But I'm sure, to carrying on what Emporer Norton was saying, people will blame it on a lizard people (or government) conspiracy to keep the world from knowing the [stupid] "truth" that the world is flat.
 
I don't know why it didn't occur to me this might happen. He's not ... exactly a rocket scientist. ;-)


But I'm sure, to carrying on what Emporer Norton was saying, people will blame it on a lizard people (or government) conspiracy to keep the world from knowing the [stupid] "truth" that the world is flat.

A Rocket scientist would already likely not subscribe to the Flat Earth theory idea to begin with.
 
He hasn't taken into account the differential gravitational effects of a disc throwing his trajectory off....

Just a thought, has he any plans to get down?
 
seems he finally launched, hit an altitude of 1800 odd feet (600m) then crash back to earth in a hard landing that left him injured.
 
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