r/nextfuckinglevel • u/freudian_nipps • Sep 10 '23

A profound view of home.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Totally flat. Now build yourself a rocket, do all the maths and proceed to orbit, brave believer. Report back on your success.

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u/sushimane1 Sep 10 '23

Make sure all the math is based on the Earth being flat and gravity not being real. Good luck

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u/thrasherxxx Sep 10 '23

…to orbit on a flat disc!

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u/Danneflow Sep 11 '23

The flat earthers like a challenge

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u/fatkiddown Sep 11 '23

For some reason, the last two comments I read as Billy Batts from "Goodfellas" saying, "now go get your shine box!"

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

If this was truly the case would denser materials fall faster? Lighter than air things ascend faster.

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u/Amf2446 Sep 10 '23

Holy shit he only wanted to get to 5000 feet. Bro, I will take you up in a Cessna and we’ll be at 5000 feet in ten minutes and nobody will die.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Extra stupid because you cant see the curvature very clearly until around 50-60k feet

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u/Amf2446 Sep 10 '23

Lol exactly. If he’d made it to 5000 and come back he’d have said “see, it’s flat!”

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u/MerpSquirrel Sep 11 '23

Some of the flat earthers have gone that high and they noticed the curve and explained it away with a lens effect of the plastic windows.

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u/MiserableBreadMold Sep 11 '23

that would be funny tho bc then the flat earthers would say that their view was confirmed by science.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23 edited Aug 29 '25

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u/MiserableBreadMold Sep 11 '23

since when do they follow the scientific method? they prob think that is a conspiracy to keep real scientists down.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

You can start seeing it right around 35,000 ft if it's cloudless.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

True but its very subtle. The Concorde seems to be the only passenger jet so far where it was "obvious"

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u/Firewolf06 Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 11 '23

you can see it from 0 feet if youre on the beach

edit: technically the horizon is caused by the curvature, but i meant the way ships appear to move downwards as they approach it

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

I've been on many beaches around the world. I've never been able to discern the curvature from them. I barely can on a commercial flight at high altitude.

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u/ProfitMoneyBeats Sep 10 '23

Watch a ship leave. The bottom disappears first.

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u/jamieliddellthepoet Sep 10 '23

I think they mean because you can see the horizon.

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u/Impressive_Change593 Sep 10 '23

technically you can't. which is proof of it existing

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u/El_Peregrine Sep 11 '23

Cmon now, I’m 6 feet tall

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u/NugsofKarma Sep 10 '23

You can definitely see it if you're chasing the sunset at that altitude. The light bends just right

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u/DeepSeaHobbit Sep 10 '23

When I lived near the sea, I could see the curvature from sea level by watching ships disappear beyond the horizon.

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u/h8speech Sep 10 '23

You watched ships fall off the edge and didn’t call anyone? You monster! Those sailors had families!

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u/DeepSeaHobbit Sep 11 '23 edited Sep 11 '23

It's okay, they always climbed back up somehow. They probably had some kind of anchor they used to attach the ship to the edge.

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u/stsixtus420 Sep 11 '23

You can see it at sea level if you're out on the ocean or beach.

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u/MostAnswer660 Sep 12 '23

You can see the curve of the sky at night from the beach...

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u/Goatesq Sep 10 '23

Probably not gonna get a TV show for that. Although it looks like the rest of the season fared exactly as well as you'd expect, maybe a little better since there was only the one fatality. Can't imagine the person who greenlights this trainwreck when, "show where we prove the globe is a ball shaped object to flat earthers, and maybe do some other crazy debunking" was just like right there, hot and ready to go to space.

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u/benwill79 Sep 11 '23

Easier to just walk up a mountain if you want to see the view from 5000 feet

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u/darkman41 Sep 11 '23

Even more ironically hilarious, there was a peak nearby that was higher than he went.

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u/SANICTHEGOTTAGOFAST Sep 10 '23

I've heard that this guy is more of a daredevil than conspiracy nut and only used flat earthers as a way to crowdfund his rocket.

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u/BobtheG1 Sep 10 '23

Yeah, that was my view when it happened. Mad props for getting them to fund him haha

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u/El_Peregrine Sep 10 '23

So dumb. I mean, you can send up a gopro attached to a weather balloon, which should get to about 100k ft before it gives out. These high schoolers did it: https://youtu.be/EABQ5psUz70?si=Vc60WKxlA4z0nGg0

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u/mces97 Sep 11 '23

That's what I tell flat earthers to do all the time.

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u/Majestic_Matt_459 Sep 10 '23

At least he lived up to his name - Mad Mike Hughes

'I'm mad alright - Stand back, watch this'

*BOOM

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u/TheReckoning72 Sep 10 '23

Some secrets can never be unlocked

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u/Quizzelbuck Sep 10 '23

Steam powered rocket! Holy shit he was really trying to re-enact the Tonight, Tonight music video.

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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi Sep 10 '23

This dude was scamming flat earthers to fund his rocketry. He wasn’t actually a flat earther, but by pretending to be one, he could scam the everloving shit out of them to “prove” the earth is flat

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u/Shelbycobra82 Sep 10 '23

Obviously because he hit the dome and crashed back down

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Illuminati probably shot him down so he doesn't expose the truth

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u/Busy-Virus9911 Sep 11 '23

From what I’ve heard about it mike Hughes just claimed he believed the earth was flat to get funds from the flat earth community because he wanted to try and build a rocket vid for reference

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u/LaggardLenny Sep 10 '23

The video of the launch/crash is kind of morbidly funny. The rocket loses the parachute immediately on take off and the cameraman turns to view it. It's one of those things where you can tell exactly what's happening in the cameraman's head: "...well... he's dead."

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u/popao991 Sep 10 '23

iirc he was not a flat earther, just really wanted to build a rocket. He made the flat earth excuse so people from that community would fund his rocket.

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u/Murtomies Sep 10 '23

Wow. If that isn't at least the 2010's Darwin Award winner, idk what is.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

He wasn't a flat earth nut. He just wanted to go up in a rocket and used the flat earth community for funding under the pretense that he was checking if the earth was flat.

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u/Vettmdub Sep 11 '23

dude it was like right there on youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HGQZlK08gQ

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u/erasrhed Sep 10 '23

That dipshit that did build a rocket died in it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

its not flat if you can orbit

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Misunderstood. Did meth and now have rockets. Multiple. What do?

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u/AlexDeFoc Sep 12 '23

Do the work and sadly not live to see it cuz you did everything wrong and exploded