Flat Earthers and what to do with them

Well, this just strikes me as a very sad story, especially if he genuinely believed this nonsense.

The thing I find sad is that as someone with the technical skills capable of building a steam powered rocket, he was clearly a bit of a doss cunt in other areas.

Rest in pieces I guess...

All the talk of it being steam powered makes it sound a bit shit. I think he was using hydrogen peroxide to generate steam at a massive pressure which would have generated huge thrust without all the explody nonsense.

Having said that, I’d be surprised if he was still conscious after that massive acceleration without a decent g-suit. Some things really are best left to the experts.

All the talk of it being steam powered makes it sound a bit shit.

I just had the idea he was wearing a Steam Punk costume and a top hat with aviator goggles until I saw the news feed.

I must stay away from Whitby to be honest.

I think he was using hydrogen peroxide to generate steam at a massive pressure

He wasn't. It was just a massive boiler attached to a wee projectile that had already suffered serious issues when it came to parachutes and retardation. It was a matter of when, not if.

'A ledge' to whom, precisely?

'A ledge' to whom, precisely?

Those who didn't use the curvature of the Earth to plan edge of atmosphere spaceflight it seems.

So the burning question is, did he finally prove the earth was flat?

suffered serious issues when it came to retardation

bit harsh

'A ledge' to whom, precisely?

Well, me, for a start! As an ex inventor and special effects technician, I used to build stuff like that at work and in my shed. It genuinely tickled me seeing him drag home-made rockets out into the desert, even if I thought he was a bit crazy. I'm a scientist these days and I occasionally come across people like him. Almost always completely harmless-crazy and self funded, they turn up at the lab and enquire about getting their their whacky inventions tested by us.

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You’re a true prophet

Presumably they haven't dabbled in Kerbal Space Program.

Not that I wished it on him, of course, but those contrails were only headed one way...

Really? In that case he was a fucking idiot.

Yep. The footage of the earlier launch which I saw showed a distinctly hard landing after ice particles from the rocket exhaust punched holes in his descent parachutes. This was not a well thought-out or well-engineered project. Respect to him for trying, but like @kl says, it was only ever going to end one way, and not well.

From what I gather, the world is surrounded by a wall of ice to stop water etc from leaking over the "edge", but no one's got a picture of said wall, so how can they convince people that this is a fact?

but no one's got a picture of said wall

It's closely guarded. Nobody can get near

Why are the science channel offering thoughts and prayers?

Does not compute.

Any evidence which is accidentally caught on camera is photoshopped out before the image is released. I’ve heard from an acquaintance who overheard a story about quite a few people on here being alleged to be involved in this line of work. Watch out for an overreaction by people to things which are square, these are the brainwashed and can’t help their reactions.

pictures of the ice wall are freely available on the internet

typical ball-earther, can't be bothered to do their own research

A friend know a guy who heard that this is all true.

;)

So whats the connection to the corona outbreak? There must be one, surely...

It'll be part of the conspiracy where the virus was predicted in a book from 40 years ago which proves it's all been planned. Or something. If you ignore it actually being from two books and it not actually being very accurate anyway https://fullfact.org/online/book-didnt-predict-coronavirus/ . The amateur detectives on my local facebook parent's group are onto them though.

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It’s compelling evidence, certainly

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