There’s video of the launch here. Not really much to see. The rocket going up with lots of exhaust. In the middle of it, an empty parachute comes out; rocket keeps going up. Not much else.
There is a link there to a video of the last flight. I’m on My phone so I can’t link directly to it.
Sadly, they don’t show anyone holding the beer.
<conspiracy>Obviously he was shot down before he could expose the truth</conspiracy>
I wasn’t hoping to see it but as soon as I saw this thread was updated my first thought was “This guy hasn’t killed himself yet”?
He knew too much, and the minions of Big Round got to him.
The fact that a flat earther had a show on the ‘Science Channel’ makes me question their commitment to actual science.
I missed the edit window. There is video of the launch on Youtube. I saw a clip from a news station that showed the launch but not the crash. It looks like at least one of the parachutes was deployed at the time of launch, sort of like what happened to Evel Knievel during his Snake River thing.
There was also a great comment. “In order to prove the flatness, you must become the flatness”.
He died like he lived: an idiot.
I think we should invent an award even higher than the Darwin Award. Darwin Laureate, maybe?
If he was attached to that parachute I’m not surprised at all he’s dead.
Here it is the launch and crash on youtube. It does show a long-distance shot of the rocket crashing, but nothing gruesome.
I hate to say it but I think they are right. Not about the earth being flat obviously, but with respect to the fish eye effect, at least for the video Dewey Finn posted. You can see the horizon bend and straighten as the camera sways around, so there must be a lot of optical distortion.
Damn. That thing looked just like a missile fired at the ground.
That parachute is what was supposed to safely lower his rocket back to the ground at the end like this.
The wind makes the audio (of the crash, not my link) hard to understand, but I like the calm, understated “uh oh” from some woman as the flight begins. (Possibly the same one that yells “fuck” as the flight ends.)
Memorably, “Uh oh” were the last words of Dick Scobee, commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger. (Really.)
Once again the comments are pure gold:
-Possible epitaph: Here lies Mike, who went splat, trying to prove that the Earth was flat.
-The show was later changed to “Journey to the center of earth!.”
-He hit the dome and confirmed gravity.
Can we rebuild him? Do we have the technology?
The Science Channel documentary series he was gathering material for is called Homemade Astronauts, which I have to admit sounds somewhat akin to Improvised Surgery.
Well, the last transmitted ones.
I really liked “He went to Flat Heaven.”
Meanwhile, they have a recording of his last words–something about some oaf named Huck?
Spiny Norman doesn’t post here anymore, but elsewhere he said:
I don’t understand the mission at all. His goal was to build a rocket that would get to 40,000 feet to prove the earth was round? He could have chartered a private jet to 50,000 feet and saved a lot of time and money and taken his flat earth investors with him.
He was able to verify Newton’s law of gravity as well as the formula 9.8m per second squared.
There’s even a website for his investors to calculate the numbers. The Splat Calculator.