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According to Southern California Public Radio,
"Mad" Mike Hughes, limousine driver and self-proclaimed flat-Earther, announced that he had to delay his plan to launch himself 1,800 feet high in a rocket of his own making. The launch, which he has billed as a crucial first step toward ultimately photographing our disc-world from space, had been scheduled for Saturday — before the Bureau of Land Management got wind of the plan and barred him from using public land in Amboy, Calif.
Also, the rocket launcher he had built out of a used motor home "broke down in the driveway" on Wednesday, according to Hughes. He said in a YouTube announcement that they'd eventually gotten the launcher fixed — but the small matter of federal permission proved a more serious stumbling block (for now).
Related: Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @05:58PM (2 children)
I share your desperation at attempting to understand how something like flat earth theory could possibly ever be a thing.
The problem is ever wealth disparity. No one man is worth a billion dollars of economic output. The economic value comes from the synergy created when we all applying our unique talents towards solving a problem. We certainly need leaders, yes. Very few of us get to be leaders. I'm saying that our leaders are overcompensated, and that it's causing systemic problems in our civilization. These problems will become fatal if we do not find a better way of sharing the wealth of civilization.
Often I see capitalists post that if we took executive X's salary and reduced it to raise all employee Ys' salaries, it would only raise each Y's salary a penny per year. We need to do that then. We need to cut executive X's salary and give all employee Ys an extra penny.
Flat earth is only a symptom of the disease. The conspiracy you're looking for isn't a conspiracy. It's simply an inherent part of the basic assumptions our civilization has made.
Well, I will grant you one major mistake of the 20th century: fractional reserve banking. We need an evolution in monetary policy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:39PM
I somehow expected you to raise the Chewbacca argument due to how you tied an evolution to monetary policy to widespread willful ignorance and the entertainment value of people donating money to a guy that can get himself exploded if he wasn't so smart he merely tricked *them* and took their money -- as well as some of the legitiamtely stupid that donated to him hoping to prove that... what. what difference will it make to a flat earther?
The belief is stronger than facts. Prove this and they will simply move on to some other thing to not strongly disagree with. Climate change probably is too mainstream for them, so perhaps they've move on to flouridated water or vaccines.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @01:15AM
There are real conspiracies being hatched to deceive and enslave the public.
Some conspiracy 'theories' are published by government agencies to add to the 'theories' out there, some so bizarre that no one should believe them; others so in-your-face that you cannot deny them. That is done to discredit all conspiracy research. A healthy dose of lies throws off the public and they don't know who or what to believe.
Conspiracies exist and if you are reading this then you are a victim. It is only a matter of time before you realize you've been played. Hope that you 'wake up' before you die.