OT: Man dies in home made rocket
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I get filming this, but why on earth would anyone post a man plummeting to his death on YouTube?
I’ve said it before - the whole flat earth thing is a lot more sinister than one can imagine. It was put out there by someone (Russians probably) to mark certainly personality types that question authority THAT much, even in the face of accepted scientific facts. It’s a whole other level than the 9/11 truther thing..... anyhow, Once someone marks themselves in that category, you can advertise directly to them, with messages customized to push their buttons. In otherwords, you can create an army of lemmings for you.
Darwin award leader for 2020.
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anon_ivydyf0amkzay
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My favorite Darwin Award winner actually survived his event -- 1982's Lawnchair Larry:
https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight
If you want to go down the Flat Earther rabbit hole, I recommend the Netflix documentary, "Behind The Curve":
https://www.netflix.com/title/81015076
Not surprisingly, Flat Earthers are predisposed to believing in other conspiracy theories (obviously, they don't believe the moon landings were real).
For such a short flight, the Earth is essentially flat - and hard. Idiot. Not surprising he said he was inspired by one of our most famous anti-scientists, the current POTUS.
Do you not recall the threads around here with Rutgers Rob? He's either a true believer or a top-notch troll. I kind of think half of them are just goofing on everyone else, too...
That’s one that particularly gets me. So the US and Soviet Union are in a Cold War, trying to expand their influence through the world and even starting proxy wars to do so, and the US fakes going to the moon and the Soviet Union (who is monitoring all of our missile launch activity) doesn’t say anything?
RutgersRob? I just think it's a case of
Russians probably? I'm thinking it's prolly those Lithuanians.
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"On Saturday, a public relations representative disputed Hughes' flat Earth beliefs, telling BuzzFeed News that the argument had helped Hughes raise money, but that he didn't actually believe it.
"We used flat Earth as a PR stunt. Period," Darren Shuster told BuzzFeed News. "He was a true daredevil decades before the latest round of rocket missions. Flat Earth allowed us to get so much publicity that we kept going! I know he didn’t believe in flat Earth and it was a schtick."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/otilliasteadman/mad-mike-hughes-rocket-death-flat-earth
"We used flat Earth as a PR stunt. Period," Darren Shuster told BuzzFeed News. "He was a true daredevil decades before the latest round of rocket missions. Flat Earth allowed us to get so much publicity that we kept going! I know he didn’t believe in flat Earth and it was a schtick."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/otilliasteadman/mad-mike-hughes-rocket-death-flat-earth
Someone posted under the video in a comment: "The earth will be a rounder place without him." He also should have listened to Radiohead:
This guy was the subject of a Netflix or Amazon movie I saw about 3 months ago..."rocket man"?
You can disrespect his life and laugh at his death but you should at least check out his engineering genius.
You can disrespect his life and laugh at his death but you should at least check out his engineering genius.
I remember Rutgers Bob, I think he was writing down everyone's names and would end each sentence with three or four dots. Does he still post?
Engineering genius?? He just plummeted to earth at 500mph!! That's not rocket science, that's a idiot showing the world how dumb he was one last time.
#thinning-the-herd
You really do have to wonder what went so horribly wrong with someone's life that they could formulate beliefs such as "no planes crashed into the World Trade Center".
It's a little sad.
It's a little sad.
It's just the thrill of thinking you have special knowledge and can look down on others. Conspiracy theorists are narcissists.
Sorry but... Actually watching this made me think of Wile E. Coyote
What was he trying to do anyway?
