This is one for the Sunday Funnies that Julia is fond of.
A self-taught rocket man who believes the earth is flat blasted himself 1,875 feet into the air, in an effort to reach orbit and reassure himself the world is shaped “like a Frisbee”.
Others have already done it and sent back the pictures. And yet he still believes we live on Discworld?
Assuming that he is successful, will the evidence of his own eyes convince him , I wonder? Apparently not, as he didn’t get far.
The self-taught rocket man added: “Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is,” he said. “Do I know for sure? No. That’s why I want to go up in space.”
Sigh..
He also plans to run for governor of California.
Oh, he’ll be a shoe-in 😀
A shoe-in? Boot him out
Posthumously after winning a Darwin Award?
At least his corpse won’t approve new eco-loon laws.
“He also plans to run for governor of California.”
Sounds a bit over-qualified!
Actually I think it would be quite hard to prove to oneself that the world is a spheroid. There are a lot of ‘facts’ that people quote and re-quote that are just plain wrong, the horizon of a sphere doesn’t ‘curve’, it forms a horizontal line that has no end.
But then human civilisation is built on accepting things that others have discovered before, which gives us time to do something else.
You can actually buy a flight on a demilitarised U2 spyplane these days, and they go high enough that the noon sky turns from blue to black and you can see the curve of the earth. It is apparently an almost magical experience, albeit an expensive one, and much safer than a home-made rocket.
Shoo in.
From what you say to an animal you want to get into a pen. No not a Biro.
Usually with arms outstretched and waving.And
originally applied to the winner of a fixed horse race.
Nothing to do with a boot up the jaxi.
Meh.
The Earth is a sphere. Just watch a tall ship sail over the horizon. First the hull disappears, then the superstructure and then the mast slowly disappears. On a flat Earth this could not happen. You don’t need a rocket to show the Earth is a sphereoid.
Our present rulers and their utterings & activities have convinced me that they model themselves on the stalwarts of Discworld.