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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 --- End quote --- 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 --- End quote --- 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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