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martyb
on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:45AM
from the live-streamed-or-live-steamed? dept.
from the live-streamed-or-live-steamed? dept.
"Mad" Mike Hughes plans to ascend to 1800 feet in a $20,000 steam-powered rocket.
He has flown in rockets before, mostly successfully, but was injured by the acceleration.
Despite that he claims "science is science fiction", he used documented engineering formulas because they are known to work, despite that the science behind them is bogus.
It will be live-streamed on Hughes' YouTube channel, possibly also on Pay-Per-View.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:05AM (5 children)
Yeah, he would "learn" that the plane windows are manipulated to distort the view, in order to make it appear that the earth is round. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:36AM (4 children)
I've been on planes several times, including transatlantic flights (which go as high as reasonable for a commercial flight).
I haven't thought of testing whether the Earth appears round from a plane, but I have looked out the windows extensively, and sphericity is not something that jumped out at me.
Obviously when I looked down I didn't see the map, but i never bothered to think about the nature of the distortions that i saw (I once flew, at night, from Belgium to Italy, and i recognized the french Mediteranean coast. I discounted any distortion to the significant "tilting" of the map).
By the way, I do believe that the Earth is round.
(Score: 5, Informative) by ledow on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:55AM (3 children)
You don't need a plane.
There's an horizon.
You can look out to sea from any beach or coastline and visibly only see about 3 miles of sea. That's a distance you can actually sail out to in order to check it.
But if something is significantly HIGHER than you are, you can see it further than 3 miles, covered by the ocean.
And a flat earth wouldn't let you do that - you'd be able to see the object AND the ocean out to that distance and one wouldn't obscure the other.
Because it happens ANYWHERE you go on Earth (i.e. the Earth is ALWAYS falling away from you, 3 miles from wherever you are), the only mathematically-possible way for that to occur is to be on the surface of a spherical object.
In fact, that's one of the ways to calculate the radius of the Earth, using maths we had 4000 years ago.
If you're getting into "proof"... try building a runway. Runways are such large pieces of straight "flat" high-precision tarmac that you have to account for the curvature of the Earth in their construction. A friend of mine used to do so for a living.
However, the second you're talking to someone who literally discards thousands of years of the simplest mathematics for some nut-job "theory", nothing is going to help you anyway.
Honestly, if you understand what a sine or cosine does, or even have enough brain to derive them from simple geometry, you can LITERALLY prove the Earth is round in a matter of minutes with any number of simple, repeatable, accurate observations.
(Score: 3, Informative) by unauthorized on Thursday November 23 2017, @09:14AM
You sir severely underestimate flat-earthers. You see, you are wrong because video games [theflatearthsociety.org]. Checkmate atheists!
(Score: 2) by tonyPick on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:46PM
There's a few other different ways you can demonstrate it, also mentioned here: https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round [popsci.com]
However I suspect that anyone launching themselves skyward at 500mph with the attitude "I don't believe in science," is likely wind up a lot flatter than the earth as a result.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:02PM
It's a gentle hill, so gentle that their brains interpret it as flat.
If there were gentle valleys to cancel out the gentle hills, then on a clear day you could see miles and miles across them, but we don't have those, do we?
The whole thing is an argument from the point of view of someone who never travels, or thinks, much.
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