Miscalculated the landing zone and fell off the edge of the earth?
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Iāve heard of that guy but never paid any attention until now.
"A daredevil and āflat-eartherā was killed Saturday while trying to launch himself 5,000 feet into the air on a steam-powered, homemade rocket in the California desertā¦
The limo driver had been vowing since 2017 to ride his rocket into the air, in part to get high enough to confirm his totally incorrect belief that the Earth is flat."
Nobody told him he could just book a flight on any old commercial airline and get a lot higher than 5000 feet? And it doesnāt even cost extra for a window seat.
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Gravity?
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I had never heard of the guy. He could get much higher in a Cessna, but I assume he was working towards getting into space. He had a successful launch and landing with only minor injuries of almost 2000 ft. That guy doing that on his own is more impressive than Elon Musk. RIP crazy dude.
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Fell off the edge of the Earth ldo
lololol I go browse 2p2 a bit and grizy is now voting Trump over Bernie.
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Why the fuck is the āScience Channelā running a series on some dangerous flat-earth crackpot committing elaborate suicide? Canāt they at least show old Attenborough documentaries or something?
Was there ever any doubt?
I guess not. Him and JayTeeMee were like the only reasonable conservatives on that site for awhile now though. Iām sure he probably voted Trump over Hillary too then has been kicking himself since. Now free things are just too much vs. worst president ever.
Have you seen the garbage these science and nature channels run with for the last 10 years? Only the BBC are reliably any good for real science and nature shows these days.
Seriously, looking for river monsters and crackpots searching for pirate treasure. Scumbags running pawn shops. Crackheads crab fishing. Etc. And get the fuck off my lawn.
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The flat earth documentary on Netflix (no idea name of it) where the people prove the earth round at the end is worth it just for the ending imo.
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Iām still not convinced flat earthers are a real thing. 99.9% of them are doing it in jest.
As he lived, by God, as he lived!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shĆ©er plĆ³d makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
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I aināt opening Youtuuuubes. 
Itās true. Their target audience is increasingly āpeople who love feeling smart.ā Few people are in awe of their own intelligence like conspiracy theorists. The only exception is people who delight in arguing with conspiracy theorists. The Venn diagram is shocking!
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Official cause of death was āCratered into sagebrushā
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I can understand following Godās Rules (or else) more than Flat Eartherism. Itās not like Flat Earthers havenāt heard and seen evidence of the alternative disproving it. And you canāt disprove God.
Itās much more brain wormy to be an earnest* Flat Earther than a deity believer.
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All true but 20 years ago when I was very active in the Skeptic movement I knew a ton of people who joined the flat earth society. They did it for fun and as an intellectual exercise to see if you could make a strong argument. It was the one thing that nobody actually believed so skeptics used it as a training ground.
I guess I havenāt followed it closely, and maybe itās super serious now, but I am doubtful.
Some dude just shot himself up into the air in a rocket and died thinking he was proving it.
There always a few nuts. Iām not denying that. Iām just saying overall itās not a real movement of any kind that deserves attention.
And you have determined this by refusing to look into it?