"They programmed the software to know when you're trying to correct their lies with a secret algorythm - it purposefully distorts the image when you 'correct it' just to show you that you're wrong and to keep the conspiracy going!"
I once knew a guy in community college Biology for science majors who had the best grades in class and every concept was easy for him. Yet he didn't believe in evolution and thought those that did were blind to God's word or something.
Not everyone can finish connecting the dots I guess.
Dude built a rocket, he can build his own specialized camera.
I mean thats some dedication but if he is able to build a rocket that could go to space it would probably be the greatest achievement and the biggest disappointment
i think the worst part is
this and all the others sound just like things they would say and i would not be surprised if they have said them.
Honestly credit where credit is due, dude's got some major balls to take off in a self-made "rocket" that was essentially a directed bomb. It's amazing that he didn't die from so many different things, like the geforces, parachute not deploying/not creating enough drag, rocket tearing itself apart, straight up exploding etc etc... It's honestly amazing he's alive. I really do hope the guy goes on to gain enough altitude to make up his mind, and won't blindly deny the truth once he gets there. Assuming he does achieve that and isn't crazy enough to claim his own eyes are corrupt or something, the guy certainly has a future in SOME kind of rocketry or engineering work.
He only made it 1,875 ft because he hit the hollow earth's ceiling.
So balloon+rocket combinations have been investigated for years. They were actually used for a period, in the 50s, to get more altitude out of sounding rockets.
The general consensus is that they're not practical for orbital launches. You need way too much velocity to stay in orbit, and almost any rocket that could provide that speed would be able to get itself to the balloon's altitude just fine. It's just an extra complication that isn't worth it - you shave off a bunch of air resistance at launch but you've made things way harder overall to make one small section of the launch a bit better. We don't even do orbital launches from mountaintops - an easy way to shave 10,000 feet or so, but just not worth it. There's a company doing orbital launches from a jet airliner (Orbital ATK's Pegasus), which a) can carry a hell of a lot more than a balloon, b) helps you get some starting velocity, not a standstill launch, and c) still isn't all that cost-competitive.
For a suborbital launch, though, a rocket+balloon might work. You're not trying to get up to Mach 20, you're just trying to go up and down. A balloon can get you halfway up, and your rocket is small enough to be carried. A balloon is a reasonable method to use here - not necessarily optimal, but not completely bonkers.
Since "orbit" is impossible in a flat-earth scenario, he's pretty implicitly aiming for a suborbital launch.
It's probably super cheap and easy to avoid scrutiny from most of the local cops.
*gasp* you mean we've been living inside the earth the whole time? Does that mean we're all actually lizard people in disguise, and the real humans are living on the surface. My mind has truly been opened.
You know, even if Flat Earthers were right and the world was a disc, who cares? What would change figuring this out?
Because planes are owned by big corporations which are functionally indistinguishable from the state, and therefore are complicit in the global conspiracy.
Also you can't obviously see the earth as a sphere from most commercial flights, so that's kinda pointless anyway. You can find any number of videos from truthers filming out their plane window and going "SEE, IT'S FLAT, WHAT ARE THEY HIDING REEE", even though it's pretty easy to do basic logical exercises to figure out what's true.
They should let this guy jump on to a crew dragon test flight, should he volunteer.
It would prove THE MAN was keeping us down by telling us the Earth was round!
guy in 2018: the earth is flat!
Saint Augustine of Hippo, 13 November 354 – 28 August 430: everyone knows something about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and relative positions ... it be supposed or scientifically demonstrated that the world is of a round and spherical form
You don't even need to leave the ground to see the curvature of the Earth. Just go to the coast.
But the lizard people put a large screen there to make it look like it's curved. When you swim out to the edge, you're just teleported back to a random point in the ocean to make it look like you've swam away. Swimming back will teleport you again, keeping the illusion real.
Honestly, there's no hope with reasoning with them. Literal centuries of science are being denied because the illuminati supposedly has something to gain by hiding that the earth is a disk for... Some reason, fucked if I know what that reason is and neither do they, but they know for a fact there is a reason, and rather than try to find that reason they're just going to try and fail to get around the shadow-government's efforts to hide that it is flat.
If you want a painful watch, here you go.
He almost proved that HE was flat.
someone briefly mentioned the whole 'mirage' thing but I'd like to stress that visual falloff such that you'd see at the coastal horizon or even across large bodies of water (like I can't see land across lake michigan from the shortest point between WI and MI) is that the air distorts the line of sight over long distances. They basically use the real scientific concept of 'index of refraction' (which the atmosphere has, to a very slight degree) to explain away this falloff, as well as how the sun stays above the land but isn't always directly visible
https://d2v9y0dukr6mq2.cloudfront.net/video/thumbnail/VB6lIpK/flat-earth-3d-model-day-and-night-animation-geocentric-concept-of-universe-side-angle-view-topographic-map-without-clouds-layer_rpz04_dpg_thumbnail-full15.png
I love how all this 'simple explaination' stuff ends up creating half a dozen more complicated/impossible scientific phenomena to explain in the process
If it weren't for the whole "trying to prove the Earth is flat" thing, this would be so much more impressive.
Because then he just made a rocket and went 1,875 feet in the air and it's powered by pressurized water. That's awesome. With the flat earth thing, he built a fucking steam powered rocket to prove the Earth is flat and it only went 1,875 feet.
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