My general feelings about flat earth nonsense are well recorded here and here.Ī part of why I decided to write anything about this is that the guy wants to run for congress in California. It really did make me wonder what exactly flat earthers think “research” is given that they were apparently willing to pony up a ton of money for this rocket, which won’t go high enough to resolve anything an airline ticket won’t resolve better. Not bad for a limo driver, I give him that.įurther in the background, I think it’s clear he was just after a publicity stunt his do-it-yourself rocket cost a great deal of money, and his conversion to flat eartherism obviously helped to pay the bill. The guy claimed he was using the flight as a test bed for a bigger rocket and wanted to create a media circus to announce his run for a seat in the California legislature. He said a number of antiscience things and sort of repurposed mathematical formulae for aeronautics and fluid mechanics as “not science” as if physics is anything other than physics. In my opinion, he was pretty clearly trolling the media not much likelihood of resolving any issues about the shape of the Earth if the peak altitude of your rocket is only a fraction of the altitude of a commercial airline jet. ![]() ![]() You no doubt heard about this fellow in the last week with the steampunk rocket with “Flat Earth Research” written on the side.
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