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I'm gonna burn myself to death, that'll show 'em that phlogiston exists!
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A CRAB IRL posted:I'm gonna burn myself to death, that'll show 'em that phlogiston exists! *and free Tibet
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Feb 25, 2020 14:53
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I wonder what was the last thing that went through his head. Besides the steam vessel
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Feb 25, 2020 15:22
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Raged posted:I wonder what was the last thing that went through his head. "Whhheeeeeeeeeeeee!!"
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Feb 25, 2020 15:30
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Raged posted:I wonder what was the last thing that went through his head. "I don't care if WWII surplus parachutes are made of real silk, I say it was a bad deal."
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Feb 25, 2020 15:58
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Raged posted:I wonder what was the last thing that went through his head. "... Did I leave the stove on?"
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Feb 25, 2020 16:17
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"i hope the parachute didn't deploy on takeoff, otherwise i'd have needed to pull the emergency parachute lever about five seconds ag"
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Feb 25, 2020 16:21
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Dravs posted:So I googled it and you have to be at a minimum of ~35,000 feet to see the curvature of the earth. Did Mad Mike even make it past 1k? Coincidentally that's also the typical flying altitude of commercial aircraft.
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Feb 25, 2020 17:24
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Dravs posted:So I googled it and you have to be at a minimum of ~35,000 feet to see the curvature of the earth. Did Mad Mike even make it past 1k? The goal for this last flight was 5,000 feet.
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Feb 25, 2020 17:37
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lol wait did he actually die?
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Feb 25, 2020 18:04
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yes
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Feb 25, 2020 18:08
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appropriatemetaphor posted:lol wait did he actually die? Legends never die. Edit: oh wait, sorry, he dead.
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Feb 25, 2020 18:12
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Dravs posted:So I googled it and you have to be at a minimum of ~35,000 feet to see the curvature of the earth. Did Mad Mike even make it past 1k? If you look at the video it looks like he was descending for ~10 seconds. Really, really rough calculation means that was about 500 meters or 1600 feet, ignoring air resistance on the descent and all kinds of stuff like that. I’m sure he beat 1000 feet but he didn’t make 5000
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Feb 25, 2020 19:00
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Lol that tmz article said he didn’t appear to use the parachute? No poo poo it loving popped out on launch
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Feb 25, 2020 23:06
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Lol that tmz article said he didn’t appear to use the parachute? No poo poo it loving popped out on launch I mean, that's technically using it
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Feb 25, 2020 23:08
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Dravs posted:So I googled it and you have to be at a minimum of ~35,000 feet to see the curvature of the earth. Did Mad Mike even make it past 1k? What crack was the person who wrote this smoking your can see evidence of that poo poo from like 50 feet up Or on any oceanic beach
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Feb 25, 2020 23:14
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Lol that tmz article said he didn’t appear to use the parachute? No poo poo it loving popped out on launch That's good news, now it can be resold again.
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Feb 25, 2020 23:20
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SeXReX posted:What crack was the person who wrote this smoking your can see evidence of that poo poo from like 50 feet up No you cannot.
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Feb 25, 2020 23:30
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Lol that tmz article said he didn’t appear to use the parachute? No poo poo it loving popped out on launch Mad Mike was fuckin' terrible at calculating exit strategies quote:In 2002, daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes successfully jumped a Lincoln Town Car stretch limousine 103 feet at the Perris Auto Speedway in Riverside County. His 2003 limo jump totally failed but his '02 jump apparently still holds the Guinness World Record, but pretty much only because no one else has ever bothered attempting it. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Feb 25, 2020 23:52
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Holy poo poo his parachute fell off right at launch?????? Daaaaamn. He must have had time to realize he was about to die.
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Feb 25, 2020 23:52
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Piggy Smalls posted:Holy poo poo his parachute fell off right at launch?????? Daaaaamn. He must have had time to realize he was about to die. Nah, he was in his little capsule with no contact to the outside world. He probably had no idea. Everyone else there knew he was dead when he launched. It's a shame the surplus store didn't have any really cheap old walkie talkies they were throwing out he could have picked up for free, because obviously he's not going to waste his money buying them.
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Feb 26, 2020 00:56
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after closely analyzing the video and various artifacts and anomalies it's clear that this was edited to hide the fact that far from smashing into the earth, mad mike actually punctured the crust and shot down into the kingdom of the mole people
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Feb 26, 2020 01:02
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Seems pretty clear that his goal was to play in a rocket and nothing else. If you wanted to view the earth from up high, you only need a handful of helium balloons and a patio chair: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight posted:On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters made a 45-minute flight in a homemade airship made of an ordinary patio chair and 45 helium-filled weather balloons. The aircraft rose to an altitude of over 15,000 feet (4,600 m) and floated from the point of takeoff in San Pedro, California, into and violating controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport. During the landing, the aircraft became entangled in power lines, but Walters was able to safely climb down.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:16
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counterfeitsaint posted:Nah, he was in his little capsule with no contact to the outside world. He probably had no idea. Everyone else there knew he was dead when he launched. he probably had an inkling when he saw the ground straight ahead and didn't feel any pull of deceleration from the parachute the other amateur redneck rocket scientists probably thought his backup parachute was gonna deploy and save him in a last second miracle, because that's exactly the type who would be involved in that project
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Feb 26, 2020 01:19
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*limousine bursts from falling capsule to set new jump record as onlookers slowly switch from shocked horror to awed cheers and applause*
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Feb 26, 2020 01:24
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Shut up Meg posted:Seems pretty clear that his goal was to play in a rocket and nothing else. It looks like he got into dumb rocket stunts first and then flat earth bullshit some time after but I'm pretty sure he genuinely believed the earth was flat. He was also SovCit and he believed in a whole bunch of other dumbass conspiracies as well, and spent years trying to track down OJ Simpson and Barack Obama so he could serve them papers because he believed he'd legally bought the rights to those entities and the persons parading around using those names without his permission owed him money. He never did corner Obama (he turned up at his house but got turned away) but he did go and harass a whole bunch of people who were connected to him in some way such as the head of the Obama Foundation, someone at the Barack Obama Presidental Library, etc etc. He was real goddamn crazy.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:30
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Captain Hygiene posted:*limousine bursts from falling capsule to set new jump record as onlookers slowly switch from shocked horror to awed cheers and applause* this is now my official Mad Mike Hughs head-cannon
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Feb 26, 2020 01:31
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Piggy Smalls posted:Holy poo poo his parachute fell off right at launch?????? Daaaaamn. He must have had time to realize he was about to die. I doubt he bothered to wire up a “shoot deployed” blinker
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Feb 26, 2020 01:33
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I thought I read from an offical seeming news source that he was actually ejected from the vessel in flight. I'm 99% sure he was aware of his predicament and I have a hunch that it was the thrill he spent his entire life searching for.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:39
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Yeah the rocket suddenly veered off on an angle when the parachute got torn off and the flight seemed to be much shorter than intended, it would have been pretty clear that something had gone real wrong He apparently had three backup chutes in case the main one failed but 
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Feb 26, 2020 01:44
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It looks like he got into dumb rocket stunts first and then flat earth bullshit some time after but I'm pretty sure he genuinely believed the earth was flat. He was also SovCit and he believed in a whole bunch of other dumbass conspiracies as well, and spent years trying to track down OJ Simpson and Barack Obama so he could serve them papers because he believed he'd legally bought the rights to those entities and the persons parading around using those names without his permission owed him money. He never did corner Obama (he turned up at his house but got turned away) but he did go and harass a whole bunch of people who were connected to him in some way such as the head of the Obama Foundation, someone at the Barack Obama Presidental Library, etc etc. It's a lot less funny when he's an untreated mentally-ill person, than a real life Wile E. Coyote.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:51
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Mozi posted:after closely analyzing the video and various artifacts and anomalies it's clear that this was edited to hide the fact that far from smashing into the earth, mad mike actually punctured the crust and shot down into the kingdom of the mole people He busted through the crust and is now trapped on the dark side of the flat Earth! Also known as the night side as the sun goes there at night, and fearsome beasts brachiate above the bottomless abyss.
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Feb 26, 2020 03:26
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bird with big dick posted:No you cannot. a boat appearing out of nowhere on the horizon of the ocean is literal proof of the curvature of the earth
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Feb 26, 2020 03:27
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Actually it's a UFO (Unidentified Floating Object). Pay no heed to flags they might have or the apparent appearance of the crew, they are shapechangers who come from beyond the rim to cause trouble.
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Feb 26, 2020 03:32
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VikingSkull posted:a boat appearing out of nowhere on the horizon of the ocean is literal proof of the curvature of the earth That whole time I was in LA I thought it was Catalina Island but it turns out there's no visible evidence of the Earth curving there so it was probably Japan or something
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Feb 26, 2020 04:12
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Colonel Cancer posted:He busted through the crust and is now trapped on the dark side of the flat Earth! Also known as the night side as the sun goes there at night... This made me think about the flat earther's explanation of night time and the fact the sun never actually sets according to them but rather rotates around the centre point of the disc earth. ...so why does it appear to go down in the evening? If it was suspended in the sky rotating around a centre point surely it would never go down considering how loving huge it is?
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Feb 26, 2020 16:43
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This made me think about the flat earther's explanation of night time and the fact the sun never actually sets according to them but rather rotates around the centre point of the disc earth. Yeah they got explanations for all that. Stupid, stupid explanations. Don't click unless you want to take a trip down a hosed up rabbithole https://wiki.tfes.org/Sunrise_and_Sunset
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Feb 26, 2020 16:48
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Don't click unless you want to take a trip down a hosed up rabbithole I realised this was going to be a thing when I asked it. I'll tie a rope to myself so you can haul me back in when I've gone too deep.
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Feb 26, 2020 17:32
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Sounds like 'Don't visit the sun during the day, only go at night' logic.
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I got as far as "the light of the Sun setting on a Flat Earth" before x-ing out
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