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The Flat Earth Imbecile

T.G.G. Moogly said:
Mad Mike is dead. Who killed him? No doubt it was all planned by deep state who controls the matrix and didn't want to be exposed.

What do you think a good epitaph might be?
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Maybe we can honor him with a notation at the frontier of the Flathead Reservation in Montana just east of Jellystone just west of the ICBM sites north of Great Falls
 
My first instinct was to make a joke. So I did:

"Man attempts to prove Earth is flat. Proves gravity instead."

But honestly, this is a sad story. This guy died. He left behind (presumably) a wife, kids, maybe grand kids, and for what?

Not only that, but someone had to clean up the...um...scene. Probably scarred some people for life. He died in an act of astonishing ignorance, and irreparably harmed friends and family on the way out. What an asshole.

And one final joke....10 bucks says this guy had satellite TV.
 
Bronzeage said:
I like how the TMZ headline says he is dead at 64, "Fatal Rocket Crash Landing," as if there is some other kind.
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It might be possible to survive if one doesn't crash too hard. But that is likely very difficult for a rocket crash, because one is not likely to crash at a glancing angle, like with many plane crashes.
 
Ford said:
…. and irreparably harmed friends and family on the way out.
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Well, there's good news, there.
Someone THIS DEEP into Flat Earth has probably cut off almost all of his friends because of differences of opinion. They keep asking for the punchline, don't you know. And the 43rd time they look incredulous and mutter, "Christ, you're serious," that's probably the final straw.
So he'd probably dead-faced all those relationships well before time.
 
T.G.G. Moogly said:
What do you think a good epitaph might be?
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Here lies Mike, they called him Mad,
'Cause of the Flat Earth idea he had.
He built a rocket to get the view
And prove the globe claim was untrue.
And now he's known around the globe,
As the guy who died on his space probe.
 
Mad Mike clearly had a zest for scientific inquiry, there's no doubt about that. His judgement, however, was seriously impaired, and no level of additional knowledge was ever going to convince him of the folly of his beliefs, not exactly an uncommon human behavior. Mike's brain was quite different from mine.

But in this case he killed himself, and not all people with Mike's condition kill themselves, although it can be argued that causing one's demise at the age of 64 is not exactly going out overly quickly. He lived long enough and although some people have suggested suicide, if that's to be taken as a serious consideration then we're all suicidal.

He's the maddest, the flattest, the splattest, the Mad Mike Hughes. Natural Selection always wins. Too bad Mad Mike didn't use all that energy and drive for endeavors more constructive.
 
A lot of people have sent smartphones and GoPro cameras and the like into the upper atmosphere with weather balloons. One can find lots of video from these excursions in YouTube and the like.

Mad Mike could easily have done that -- and survived.
 
lpetrich said:
A lot of people have sent smartphones and GoPro cameras and the like into the upper atmosphere with weather balloons. One can find lots of video from these excursions in YouTube and the like.

Mad Mike could easily have done that -- and survived.
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GoPro is part of the conspiracy!
 
Loren Pechtel said:
lpetrich said:
A lot of people have sent smartphones and GoPro cameras and the like into the upper atmosphere with weather balloons. One can find lots of video from these excursions in YouTube and the like.

Mad Mike could easily have done that -- and survived.
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GoPro is part of the conspiracy!
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The conspiracy has to be huge, though.
all atlas publishers have to agree how they'll fudge the maps.
All GPS manufacturers, programmers, have to cooperate.
All pilots.
All weather-guessers.
Astronomers.
I mean, you can't have ANY endeavor where an enthusiastic amateur might stumble upon the proof that everything's a lie. Or one little thread they keep tugging at til the whole thing unravels.

The guys across the street programming missile guidance systems. Those things measure the Earth's Rotation and use it to determine the missile's placement inside the launch tube. The results coming in from the inertial components need to be made to match the sphere-earth's rotational speeds at the latitude the ship's at. What if a crew ran it in the southern hemisphere and the results said the missile had twisted 723 degrees in the tube?

Whalers. If they take it in their head to sail around Antarctica, and it takes 15x as long as the mapquest directions say it should....

Anyway SO MANY people would have to be in on the conspiracy, at least briefed on the 'don't go there' areas, it's no longer a conspiracy. The Sphere Earth lie is the status quo. And policing the lie would be the world's greatest industry, spanning all borders.

And yet, the Flat Earth society is NOT taken down an alley and shot in the throat...?
 
Keith&Co. said:
Loren Pechtel said:
lpetrich said:
A lot of people have sent smartphones and GoPro cameras and the like into the upper atmosphere with weather balloons. One can find lots of video from these excursions in YouTube and the like.

Mad Mike could easily have done that -- and survived.
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GoPro is part of the conspiracy!
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The conspiracy has to be huge, though.
all atlas publishers have to agree how they'll fudge the maps.
All GPS manufacturers, programmers, have to cooperate.
All pilots.
All weather-guessers.
Astronomers.
I mean, you can't have ANY endeavor where an enthusiastic amateur might stumble upon the proof that everything's a lie. Or one little thread they keep tugging at til the whole thing unravels.

The guys across the street programming missile guidance systems. Those things measure the Earth's Rotation and use it to determine the missile's placement inside the launch tube. The results coming in from the inertial components need to be made to match the sphere-earth's rotational speeds at the latitude the ship's at. What if a crew ran it in the southern hemisphere and the results said the missile had twisted 723 degrees in the tube?

Whalers. If they take it in their head to sail around Antarctica, and it takes 15x as long as the mapquest directions say it should....

Anyway SO MANY people would have to be in on the conspiracy, at least briefed on the 'don't go there' areas, it's no longer a conspiracy. The Sphere Earth lie is the status quo. And policing the lie would be the world's greatest industry, spanning all borders.

And yet, the Flat Earth society is NOT taken down an alley and shot in the throat...?
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When one lives in a Nevada desert with absolutely nothing and no one around you, I can understand how one can easily say things like "all pilots are in cahoots".. because the scale of what "all pilots" and all of the people they know and all of the infrastructure supporting air travel can be put in a tiny little box labeled "dem fly boys in cahoots with each other". I mean, it's not exactly hard for this guy to keep a secret, if anything - the hard bit is getting anybody to hear anyhting from him at all.. so it must just seem easy as pie to keep some secret, the bounds of which one is completely oblivious to.
 
lpetrich said:
Balloon with GoPro to Near Space - YouTube - this is one of oodles of similar videos that one can find online.
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Mad Mike was not rationally interested in the subject. No one who is rationally interested builds a steam powered rocket, then gets in the fucking thing, then blasts it off from the back of his truck, all the while doing so when information is readily available.

hurtinbuckaroo said:
"He stuck the landing."
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Good one. That he did.
 
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