The Mad Man Did It

>Self-taught rocket man and proud flat-Earther “Mad” Mike Hughes has finally blasted off in his homemade rocket. Soaring 1,875 feet off the ground Saturday, he made it back to Earth in one piece—if a little clobbered

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no he didn't the police prevented him

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Proof articles, video, anything.

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Where is the in rocket camera?

REEEEEEEEEEE

Fucking NASA.

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fake

Nice

Flat earth confirmed, sphere cucks BTFO

wait wtf does this prove?

>1,875 feet
Are you fucking serious?

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>fly up a thousand feet in a desert valley to try and prove the earth is flat
>in an area where you can't physically see any flat or curved horizon anyways due to the mountains
he never would have proved anything to begin with lol

>1,875 feet
Wow, it's fucking nothing.

Did he even manage to get high up enough to see curvature? Why wouldn't he just buy a weather balloon and a camera. Far cheaper, safer and he could have had a stream of the whole thing but I guess when you have your head so far up your own ass firsthand evidence is the only thing that will change your mind. I suppose if he came down with his worldview shattered it will mean he is now a paid shill to all his flat earth buddies.

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I flew in airplane once, can confirm it is flat

That he successfully conned tards into giving him money.

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How much did he fleece?

He could have taken trip to the Rockies and stood ten times higher and seen distinct curvature without putting risk to his life.

>1,875ft
>commercial aircraft fly at 30,000ft
Lol wut

literally nothing. he didnt make it into space so he didnt prove anything.

>cameras with circular lenses can prove the earth is flat
>spherical camera lenses are literally mandated by the government in every country

Pro tip

this is the true irony of the whole saga

Dude was just looking for retards to pay for his expensive hobby.

Based.
Globe fags BTFO.

>This man has lived a more interesting life that most of us could hope for.

Woah, you just cracked an international conspiracy being upheld by every national, every corporation and every single person with deeper understanding the function of a lens. You're brilliant mate. Call CNN, call MSNBC, call FOX, we have proof that the earth is an inverted cylinder and that NASA is a shell puppet for Kodak.

>anamorphic lenses are illegal
>implying modern canon L lenses, sony G lenses, and zeiss lenses have any distortion at all
what???

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>you'll never be a retarded rocketman

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>Implying he is really is in the rocket and did not just went in after the drop

>no argument
He just explained why a camera with a circular lens can't provide evidence and you just sperg out like an idiot and post your logical fallacies.
How old are you?

You asked the question why he didn't use a camera, and you got the answer.

>not even 2000 ft

lame as fuck, also gay

That human stupidity has no limit.

>implying modern canon L lenses, sony G lenses, and zeiss lenses have any distortion at all
There is no lens without distortion.
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I can’t imagine being as much of a fucking faggot as you are holy shit

>How much did he fleece?

Obviously enough to build his own cool ass rocket.

This is an incredibly clever way to fund an oddball hobby.

WUT kek

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cameras with circular lenses usually have distortion correcting elements inside you tard, as long as you aren't using ultra wide angle lenses or a shitty fucking gopro (which is optically disgusting) you'll be able to produce images with almost zero distortion
>165362554
I know, but most modern expensive primes will produce nearly zero distortion.

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>a camera with a circular lens can't provide evidence
It can show an edge.

Literally all you have to do to prove the earth isn't round is get a clean, reproducible image of the edge.

less than 1900 Ft. you and him... go KYS

>"distortion correcting elements" make them perfect
And still, every camera in any test has distortion.
>nearly zero distortion
What is nearly zero distortion? Is it just 1/4th of the distortion of cameras from 20 years ago without any correcting element?Then it is still shit.
Just think about how the camera is supposed to film the horizon, which is naturally pretty far away and should go through the whole screen.

Also there are geometrical limitations, if you want to have as less distortion as possible, you will have to make your lens as big as possible.
And then it will be so expensive or so heavy, that just shooting up the guy himself will be cheaper.

you mean, of the ice wall, right?

He could have just walked up the mountain behind him.

>posting on pol
>believes earth is flat
>literally a retard.
Fucking kek

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Whatever, produce a clean, reproducible photograph of a feature which is indicative of your claimed geometry.

>That he successfully conned tards into giving him money.
This is how spaceX started?

why we don't fund a flat earther? fuck spaceX.

SpaceX raises an extra $100 million and is now worth an estimated $21.5 billion
SpaceX has raised $100 million as part of its latest funding round
Since August, it has raised nearly $450 million

looks liek a crowdfunding scam to take advantage of boomers

Couldn't he have taken a plane that high?

Better than what Von Braunn did.

>Hey m8 wanna make some rockets? I need some anglos killed.

Obviously planes are fake and the windows inside are TV screens

This is beside the fact that earth has mountains with a greater height than this and it would been easier to just walk or drive up them.

I doubt he actually believes any of this flat earth bullshit.

can anyone just put a camera onto a weather balloon ?

The earth is flat and god is real.

what did you expect from a nation that has only ever produced hitler and schwarzenegger.

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earth is clearly flat

>He builds a rocket to get himself 570 meters in the air.
>Claims that this is "the border to space"
>He would have get much higher if he had invested in a plane ticket.

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That nigger with the weather balloons and the lawn chair got higher than that.

Why are globtards so fucking dumb
seriously. why do you think the earth is a globe? how does that make any fucking sense AT ALL? Do you not understand gravity?

Gravity pushes things down
Go get a ball
Push it down
It will burst and become flat

The reason that Mars etc are not flat is that gravity hasn't burst them yet, but we know this has happened to earth

How many of you have actually been to space?

Zero.


How many of you have seen a flat path?

All

You anglos used to be better.

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When I went to Svalbard, was I at the edge of the disc or the center?

Looks better than the Asian rocket man

spacefag here, here's what you'd need to do if you wanted to get to space:

Average human male weights 80 kg.

Lets round that up to 100kg to account for basic life-support.

It takes 9.4 km/s of delta-v to get to low orbit.

The fuel equation for rockets is

dV = Isp * 9.81 * ln(fuel ratio)

Wikipedia tells me a decent solid rocket booster gets an Isp of about 250 s.

Put this into a calculator, and you you'll need a fuel ratio of about 3.9, or a total mass of about 4000kg (closer to 3500kg, but I'm adding this for fudge-factor).

Liquid fuel is more expensive, and it costs about $4/kg, but let's assume we can get it for the same price, which leaves us at $16000 for all the fuel you'll need to get to space.

That's just to get into orbit, mind you, if you wanted to stay ballistic, you could probably do it for half as much.

>1,875 feet
why didn't he just use a hot air balloon?
you can get way higher and do it much more safely at a fraction of the cost.

Why the fuck is this guy fucking retarded the easiest way to measure the flat earth is Well to fucking me3asure it with lasers

youtube.com/watch?v=AdEb2hQNoi8

Plenty of people have gone and done similar experiments going as far back as the 17 hundreds and every one of them has came back conclusive that the earth is flat.

Globe cucks BTFO

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THE MADMAN HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA NICE ONE LAD
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he probably just wanted to build and fly a rocket and figured that he could just scam the flat earth idiots into paying for it

>every single lense distorts the image in exactly the same way, to make the earth look round

Hell, Eratosthenes figured it out over two thousand years ago with poles and shadows. It's not even that complicated.

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what?
I'm a communications engineer, I own towers, climb to the tops of plenty of them myself. Can see the curvature of the earth. The calculation need to be added for long wireless links, the earth is not flat you fucking retard.

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>lives in a forest with evaporation from the leaves
>can't see past the mist
>'earth must be round'

roundtards everyone

Wisp?

>OBAMA TURNED THE FROGS GAY WITH CHEMICAL'S

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MAD MIKE BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAAAAAIN

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If that retard wanted to see the curvature that much why didn't he do like Felix Baumgarner and invested some money to get into weather balloon and lift into stratosphere?
This would be cheaper and more legit to prove his old retarded stupid ass wrong

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by that logic all lenses have distortion including our fucking eyes because refracting light is the function of a lens you dumb shit

>replying unironically to slide threads

>he learned in school that his links wouldn't work without that calculation
>didn't question it at all

fucking globeheads lmao

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>fisheye lens
if the earth's curvature were as extreme as it looks in your pic, the earth would be about the size of Maui

Someone explain this to me. If I get a hot air balloon and I float just a couple inches of the ground not attached to anything. Assuming there is no wind would I technically be in China in 24 hours just based on how the earth rotates?

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It's called Atrazine you retard look it up.

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>our own eyes aren't circular lenses

No because since the earth is rotating around the sun you would be in space

No you won't since you are moving with the same speed as earth on the surface in the same direction

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No because you'll be moving along with the atmosphere.
If you remained stationary relative to the Earth's rotation somehow, then you would perceive winds moving as fast as the Earth's rotation because the atmosphere would be passing over you at that speed.

You would be back where you started in 24 hours. You mean 12 hours.
I guess it's because the surface of the earth spins at the same rate that the air/atmosphere spins, so that the surface of the earth relative to the air doesn't move. This is why we don't experiene continual gale force winds caused by the earth rotating at 2pi/24 rad/hr.
They spin at the same rate because the earth has been spinning since before it had an atmosphere. Any gasses produced on the surface will have had an initial rotational velocity that has been continually maintained by the friction between the atmosphere and the surface of the earth.

You can't actually be this stupid, can you? If the atmosphere were stationary around the earth (which is clearly impossible and a completely brain dead idea) the relative wind speed would about 1000 miles per hour.

Or maybe the earth is flat....

If the earth is flat, why can you not observe any constilations from any position on earth at any time of the year?

No, you're just a retard.

If the earth is flat, how can there be day in one place and night in the other at the same time?

Flat earth model explains this already

Turn on a flashlight, point it down and move it in a circle around a table.

youtube.com/watch?v=OCjCWAFfTn4

The sun moves, not the earth.

I've been up mountains five times that height.

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They don't
Wrong. Sun (or in that case, Flashlight) would still be visible from any point of the table, it will just be darker since less light will arrive there.

> The sun moves, not the earth.
It's true. These people DO believe the universe revolves around them.

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He's a successful conman

I believe the Earth is flat. It's why there are so many people whose actively battle others online to disprove it. If it's so ridiculous and out there, then why fight so hard to prove it is round?