Flat earther "Mad" Mike Hughes, who also bills himself as "the last great daredevil," promised Super Bowl-sized ratings for an event Saturday where he'd blast himself nearly half a mile into the sky on a homemade rocket. "We had 20 cameras on site today, ready for a full segment," explained the video-on-demand site Noize TV on their Facebook page. One newspaper described it as also being "an event which he hopes will get people to investigate the ideology which holds the earth is flat." But judging from online reactions, the event was just another disappointment.
Noize TV's Facebook post titled "The Launch!!! Finally" shows a picture of Mike standing beside his rocket -- but it's followed by a commenters saying things like "There was no launch. I doubt there will be," and the official Noize TV account saying "We thought he would press that button... He did not. And won't be doing so we are pretty certain." And this morning Noize TV posted that "we will no longer cover non launches, only launches... It turns out non launches are not as funny as we anticipated."
One woman even posted that "I was there for awhile...police were there. Ambulance was there. 100 people that weren't supposed to be there was there..." And while there's rumors Mike might still try again another day, her ultimate verdict about the limo-driver-turned-daredevil was cynical. "He's all about getting seen rather than getting launched... My husband gave him $100 cash the last time he was going to launch...live and learn."
>It's flat as fuck! youtube.com/watch?v=WQITXbcz2hg Without knowing anything about how the video was created, how do you know how much curvature should be visible? Or do flat-earthers just not understand how cameras work, and assume everyone else is stupid too?
Nolan Sanders
Stop being in denial globalist
Justin Lopez
The rod extending out is distorted by the lens...
Christopher Evans
Moon-chan is a qt
Lucas Hernandez
>how much curvature should be visible? I've never quite understood why they are looking for a curve anyway. Let's say you're on board a ship, up in the crow's nest. No matter what direction you look the horizon is the same distance away, and at the same angle. Shouldn't it look like a straight line? Is the horizon I'm looking straight at "higher" than the horizon in my peripheral vision? What happens when I turn my head? I'm really lost on what they think a horizon "should" look like.
Benjamin Flores
They think it should look like a hill out in the distance.
They also think someone 20 miles away would have to look up a few hundred feet to see them, because they can't reconcile how something can be curved but level at the same time.
Gavin Ramirez
>curved but level
More like how something can be curved but flat at the same time. The oceans are flat and level, that cannot exist on a sphere, it's as simple as that.
Water is always flat brainlet, that's all you need to know.
Juan Peterson
>Water is always flat brainlet, that's all you need to know. The surface is always a uniform distance from the center of the sphere, troll.
Joseph Perez
That does not equate to flat water does it? The water would still be curved, doesn't matter if it's of uniform level around a sphere, it wouldn't be flat. But it is flat!
Tyler Price
>But it is flat! How do you check that? The horizon should always be flat, see Even looking down from 10' on on the surface of an uncluttered surface of a sphere, you're seeing a big circle. The higher you get, the smaller this circle is.
You know how you can see ships coming up over the horizon? I've seen that on land (US-264 in North Carolina) with a ditch full of water right by the road. Three miles in a straight line, and I can clearly see a hump between me and the trees at the end of the straightaway. But the water in the ditch is always about a foot below the road surface.
Oliver Scott
>Water is always flat brainlet!
Checkmate, brainlet!
Luis Hernandez
Oops, forgot pic.
Carson Edwards
Water is used in construction because it remains perfectly flat when undisturbed. The surface of water will NEVER bend around the exterior of a sphere. No experiment can be done to prove it can. If the earth is spherical, it must follow that the oceans also conform to this sphere which does not happen in observable nature. Snap out of that fantasy.
Hudson Rodriguez
Silly brainlet, the water droplet is not conforming to the exterior of a solid sphere (and spinning with it).
Aiden Lewis
>Water is used in construction because it remains perfectly flat when undisturbed. [citation needed] It works out nicely for getting a ceiling close to flat, but only because anything in a room is such a small part of the sphere it just can't matter in a practical sense.
Leo Ward
No. But as you can see, it is clearly spherical cause by the force of G R A V I T Y. You said you wanted to see water C U R V E, right; here's you proof!
C H E C K M A T E
B R A I N L E T !
Oliver Russell
>man decides not to kill himself what a pussy.
but seriously why didn't he just make a blimp or just tie a camera to a baloon or something? too much to ask of someone who thinks the earth is flat maybe?
>What more proof do you need that the earth is flat?
Jose Richardson
>No experiment can be done to prove it can. Well, not on Earth at least because small spheres wouldn't overcome surface tension and large spheres wouldn't overcome gravity.
But luckily all we have to do is prove gravity exists (and we have) so following that reasoning water forming to the curve of the ball Earth would also be logical.
Evan King
>the surface of water will NEVER bend around the exterior of a sphere
Then what will it do? If I have a sphere in a pressurized to 1 atm box in free fall, and add water to this sphere, what will the water do?
Zachary Parker
No, he said in the post attempt interview that he tries to launch and it wouldn't go, he thought it was a valve failure or something
Jonathan Campbell
>I'm smart because I believe the Earth is round, unlike that small obscure group of retards who actually believe the Earth is flat. Look at them, such brainlets! Not trying to support Flat Earth here, but anyone that gives the Flat Earth retards attention and post articles about them, are equally retarded.
Oliver Martinez
this, just let them die in their ignorance
Connor Price
"Explanation" would be more convincing if someone else, another flat-Earther but not someone sitting in the cockpit, got to push the button from a distance. At least we'd know the trouble wasn't a last-second attack of reason.
Liam Ortiz
>bendy water >not understanding that your point of reference changes when
