Flat Earther to Launch Rocket Proving Earth is not Round

[tharpdevenport]

Entirely predictable. A foregone conclusion as Spock would have said.

Not the "Earth-shattering kaboom" I was hoping for, but natural selection has done it's job nonetheless.

 

[Jax]

He lived Flat and died very flat.

 

[Tosk]

Making jokes about a man who just died. Disgusting.

He died doing what he loved. Slamming a round Earth.

 

[SolarisOne]

Making jokes about a man who just died. Disgusting.

Entertaining. He was a willing participant in the Darwin Awards of 2020 and won.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh come on he's a pioneer for civilian space travel..... Now everyone will want to make a home made rocket.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

One story claims he himself wasn't a flat-earther, but simply used the "platform" for attention. If nothing else, he proved the theory of gravity.

 

[Tosk]

Entertaining. He was a willing participant in the Darwin Awards of 2020 and won.

I was utilizing irony to set up my own crappy joke.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I wonder if people helping him will now face any charges as the launch could have been illegal. That's what I've read online.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Pure showboating that as we see now went horribly but almost inevitably wrong, very sad for all involved.

 

[Dukhat]

You know, people who think they’re more clever than they really are and making dumb jokes at the expense of a person losing his life, no matter how it happened, is really quite disturbing. Apparently good taste went out of style with the advent of the internet.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I've consistently believed that the whole purpose of the FES is to have an excuse for people to get together and drink while laughing at the people who believe that THEY believe the Earth is flat. I'm not sure who gets the last laugh in this case.

Mark

 

[tharpdevenport]

Making jokes about a man who just died. Disgusting.

He died doing what he loved. Slamming a round Earth.

I hear his followers are in flat-out denial. They're really crashing right now. This whole thing has slammed them.




(but in a serious note, I wonder how many of them are blaming a conspiracy and tampering?)

 

[fireproof78]

I may not have agreed with the man but this is entirely tragic.

 

[tharpdevenport]

To me it's tragic if you're minding your own business and ding what you're supposed to be doing and you get killed (a car swerves into you, etc.), however, if you initiate what everybody (in the general sense) and their grandmother knows is going to lead to your foregone conclusion of untimely death, it's stupidity.

 

[BillJ]

I hope the man found whatever answers he was looking for.

 

[tharpdevenport]

He definitively found out three answers:

1. Gravity is a thing.
2. Steam-power doesn't work for what he wanted to do.
3. He was really very very very, horribly horribly horribly wrong.

 

[XCV330]

I hope the man found whatever answers he was looking for.

the ground?

 

[tharpdevenport]

the ground?

To slightly re-word an old joke:

I wondered why the ground was getting closer, then it hit me.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

To slightly re-word an old joke:

I wondered why the ground was getting closer, then it hit me.

Remember the whale from Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy who spontaneously popped into existence over a planet, and was falling.

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This is from the crappy American version

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Let's not forget this classic.

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