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"Mad" Mike Hughes dies in homemade rocket
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donotdespisethesnake:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on February 23, 2020, 05:41:26 pm ---I remember hearing about him before.   Maybe he had a few screws loose but still sad to see his experiment end it death.   Hope he at least got to see the curvature before dying.  :P

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There are safer experiments which can be conducted at ground level to determine the curvature of the Earth. I suspect though he may have had other issues on his mind, like how to survive without a parachute.
LaserSteve:
IF that's his wife/daughter in the foreground on the camera with tripod, I find this video very sad/distasteful.  Especially when that person sees the "no deploy" situation well before impact. If you turn up the volume the cry is heart wrenching.

He achieved only  575 feet and a broken back due to excessive descent velocity on the first flight, that should have set up red flags right there.  Makes me wonder why a loved one didn't try to stop round two.

Steve  :wtf:
Nusa:
This appears to be the source of the footage used in the youtube video that failed to be funny above: https://twitter.com/justindchapman/status/1231336002175717376

george.b:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on February 23, 2020, 05:41:26 pm ---Hope he at least got to see the curvature before dying.  :P

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At an altitude of 1500 meters? Nah.
Talk about dying in vain.
duak:
First, my sympathies to all those affected by this accident.  I can't think of any death that isn't a tragedy for someone.

To change the subject slightly, how would a satellite orbit a flat Earth?  Any ideas?  I accept Newtonian and Einsteinian (General Relativity) as the simplest and most reasonable ways to explain orbits but a flat Earth must have truly horrendous preconditions and mathematics.
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