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I'm not a Hurricanes fan by any means, but that game was pure schad. I imagine the rioters have burned Toronto to the ground by now.
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Feb 23, 2020 09:01
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TotalLossBrain posted:Remember Mad Mike Hughes, the flat Earth rocket guy who built his rockets out of RV parts? Flat earthing has officially killed a dude in 2020
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Feb 23, 2020 10:29
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Flat earthing has officially killed a dude in 2020 He misunderstood what flat earthing was though.
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Feb 23, 2020 10:32
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Most Toronto fans I knew don''t have any tears. They know the Leaves suck.
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Feb 23, 2020 10:58
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Flat earthing has officially killed a dude in 2020 The worst part is now Flat Earthers will claim he tried to expose the lie and was silenced by the Deep State.
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Feb 23, 2020 11:06
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RatHat posted:The worst part is now Flat Earthers will claim he tried to expose the lie and was silenced by the Deep State. Some flat earth idiots were livestreaming the launch and immediately after Mad Mike crashed and died they started talking about how he'd finally found out for sure whether the earth was round or not during his flight but "he can't come back and tell us now" Edit: there's an entire GBS thread about this dumb fucker if people want to keep the conversation going Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Feb 23, 2020 11:32
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His rocket was steam powered. Steam. Why would anyone make a steam powered rocket?
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Feb 23, 2020 13:18
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Field Mousepad posted:His rocket was steam powered. Steam. To be fair, it did work. The problem was, he didn't have a steam-powered parachute.
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Feb 23, 2020 13:57
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Shut up Meg posted:The problem was, he didn't have a steam-powered parachute. No no no, the problem was that he unexpectedly had a steam-powered parachute when it popped open during the launch and got caught in the steam from the rocket and was torn off. He apparently had three backup chutes but I'm guessing that he at least greyed-out or even blacked out because his "training" to be able to withstand the crazy Gs he would be experiencing was "try to take care myself, watch what I eat for three days before, get enough liquids, hang upside down almost every day and taking oxygen right before I get in the rocket" which is uhhhhhh somewhat lacking. Hopefully he G-LOCed and wasn't conscious while he fell.
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Feb 23, 2020 14:20
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Dillbag posted:He was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when gravity began to take hold. We can't stop here. This is flat country.
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Feb 23, 2020 14:23
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BiggerBoat posted:We can't stop here. This is flat country. He did stop there though
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Feb 23, 2020 14:26
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Field Mousepad posted:His rocket was steam powered. Steam. I know right? I get crashes with steam all the time too
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Feb 23, 2020 15:41
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Usually reverting to the VAB and fixing my staging corrects whatever my problem is 
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Feb 23, 2020 15:47
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This won't link properly because app but holy lol https://twitter.com/bh13850/status/1231396406625292289?s=19 *edit: it did link properly, hooray!
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Feb 23, 2020 16:56
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Has someone informed the President of this steam-powered catapult take-off problem? Would this have happened with the Digital?
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Feb 23, 2020 16:57
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When you follow your dreams, the sky’s the limit.
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Feb 23, 2020 17:00
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lmao, cross-post from that linked thread about his earlier shenanigans:Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's a few wacky gifs from that time Mike had to move his rocket to a different launch location at the last minute because the Bureau of Land Management told him he wasn't allowed to do it on public land:
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Feb 23, 2020 17:04
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It's hard to parse all the flat earth "logic". What did he expect was going to happen? Also I see I parachute that deployed early, was that supposed to be his back up incase the earth wasn't flat, cause LOL he still would have totally died.
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Feb 23, 2020 17:07
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Splat Earth.
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Feb 23, 2020 17:13
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LifeSunDeath posted:It's hard to parse all the flat earth "logic". In the other thread I posted links to some of Mad Mike's recent podcasts (filmed on his phone in the booth a cafe and broadcast by his flat earth buddies who can't even figure out how to hide all their tabs at the top of the screen) and the dude was really genuinely dumb and crazy but also totally convinced that he was a smart guy who had it all figured out. He also bought into every conspiracy theory under the sun and was making up new ones as he went along (is the moon transparent? MAKES U THINK) but also trying real hard to inflict as much damage on his 'enemies' as possible via frivolous lawsuits and attempting to get elected to local positions of authority. Edit: he was also SovCit Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Feb 23, 2020 17:21
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Please keep the death videos to the OSHA/Spaceflight threads. It's fun to laugh at this guy's gimmick but it's not cool to feel good about someone augering into the ground at terminal velocity, no matter how dumb they are.
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Feb 23, 2020 17:24
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I kind of respect the dude in that it appearantly did work multiple times, and for the balls you have to have to try something like this. A steam powered homemade rocket is kind of badass. I am also not going to feel too bad about him dying while willfully, and in full control of his faculties, attempting to disprove something that has been proven again and again, using a homemade apparatus that launches him hundreds of meters into the air with badly thought out safety measures. Son of Rodney fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Feb 23, 2020 17:40
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I’m just glad that his arrogance and final stunt didn’t wind up taking anyone else with him.
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Feb 23, 2020 17:45
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Regalingualius posted:I’m just glad that his arrogance and final stunt didn’t wind up taking anyone else with him. He very nearly killed one of his groundcrew in a previous attempt when the rocket unexpectedly launched itself early while his friend was up a ladder working on it Edit: unlike all his previous attempts where the rocket was pointed straight up, this time the rocket was canted at a 79 degree angle so there was less chance it'd come back down on top of anyone
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Feb 23, 2020 17:54
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Yeah, THAT part of the earth was certainly flat enough. What a god damned idiot. Was that the parachute that flew off the thing during take off? All it made me think about was Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon fiasco except all Evel was trying to prove was...well...actually I'm not sure. Pretty sure he thought the earth was round though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzIptcAqUDE
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Feb 23, 2020 18:07
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I'm pretty sure rocket guy was trying to kill himself with rockets. Like he would just keep on building crazier and crazier rockets until one of them finally killed him. He only said he was a flat earther because they're the only ones dumb enough to fund his last suicide rocket.
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Feb 23, 2020 19:32
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah, THAT part of the earth was certainly flat enough. He was trying to prove that Evel Knievel is the raddest dude in the universe.
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Feb 23, 2020 19:32
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Dillbag posted:He was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when gravity began to take hold.  This is probably the best thing I'll read all day.
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Feb 23, 2020 19:53
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Feb 23, 2020 20:07
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Today's news totally made me reinstall KSP by the way
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Feb 23, 2020 20:18
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BiggerBoat posted:We can't stop here. This is flat country. gschmidl posted:Splat Earth.
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Feb 23, 2020 20:45
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Feb 23, 2020 20:56
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Okay. So you want to find out if you can see the curve of the planet by gaining height via rocket. That I understand. What I don't understand is that we have roads higher than his intended height. He could have just drove up there. That's what confuses me.
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Feb 23, 2020 20:57
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Ak Gara posted:Okay. So you want to find out if you can see the curve of the planet by gaining height via rocket. That I understand. Government roads
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Feb 23, 2020 20:59
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Ak Gara posted:Okay. So you want to find out if you can see the curve of the planet by gaining height via rocket. That I understand. Hell, he could have used balloons and a cheap GoPro (or perhaps a cheap smart phone with GPS so it could be hunted down). At the end he wanted to ride rockets. He became a late “convert” to Flat Earth poo poo because he found that he could get them to finance his dreams if he couched the whole thing as “scientific experiments” to prove the earth was flat.
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Feb 23, 2020 21:02
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Push El Burrito posted:He was trying to prove that Evel Knievel is the raddest dude in the universe. Well then mission accomplished I suppose and I'm not prepared to argue anything to the contrary.
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Feb 23, 2020 21:16
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Proteus Jones posted:Hell, he could have used balloons and a cheap GoPro (or perhaps a cheap smart phone with GPS so it could be hunted down). Part of the flat earther argument is that cameras are no good because lenses distort things. The only acceptable proof is viewing it with your own eyes. So, "need to build rockets" is very sellable.
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Feb 23, 2020 21:20
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His name was Jeb
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