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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #75 on: March 26, 2018, 11:41:37 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on March 26, 2018, 11:31:28 AM
He needs to get a boat and try to sail off the end of the earth.  I am sure there is some reason he can't do that.

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #76 on: March 26, 2018, 12:16:23 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on March 26, 2018, 11:31:28 AM
He needs to get a boat and try to sail off the end of the earth.  I am sure there is some reason he can't do that.


I thought we all knew by now that the edge of the earth is ringed by re-education centers for the daring, free-thinking few who challenge orthodoxy.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #77 on: March 26, 2018, 02:56:45 PM »
Quote from: dogmush on March 26, 2018, 05:28:36 AM
https://youtu.be/QRZ90syG4Zs

Video of the most recent launch.

That might help with the math, as it looks like he deployed the parachute while still on the ascending portion of the flight, which would mess with the deccel and altitude numbers.



I wonder why he popped the chute on the way up. It does look like that's what happened -- but I think if he was traveling anywhere near 350 MPH when the first chute deployed, the chute would have been ripped to shreds. And I think he popped the second chute too late for it to have had much effect.

And it didn't look like he landed anywhere close to 1500 feet from the launch pad.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #78 on: March 26, 2018, 03:04:43 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on March 26, 2018, 02:56:45 PM
I wonder why he popped the chute on the way up. It does look like that's what happened -- but I think if he was traveling anywhere near 350 MPH when the first chute deployed, the chute would have been ripped to shreds. And I think he popped the second chute too late for it to have had much effect.

And it didn't look like he landed anywhere close to 1500 feet from the launch pad.


If you assume a spherical earth, your figures will just be flat wrong.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #79 on: March 26, 2018, 03:09:53 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on March 26, 2018, 02:56:45 PM
It does look like that's what happened -- but I think if he was traveling anywhere near 350 MPH when the first chute deployed, the chute would have been ripped to shreds.

Top Fuel dragsters and higher classes at the salt flats do it all the time.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #80 on: March 26, 2018, 03:49:54 PM »
Quote from: HeroHog on March 26, 2018, 03:09:53 PM
Top Fuel dragsters and higher classes at the salt flats do it all the time.

Not with military surplus -1B's they don't.  Which is what I'm pretty sure those are.

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #81 on: March 26, 2018, 04:01:57 PM »
I'm curious as to how he sat in the rocket.  The rocket launched nose first and landed nose first.  Either the launch or the landing was gonna hurt.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #82 on: March 26, 2018, 04:05:39 PM »
Drag cars do it to drop that weight off right before the line. The big boys do everything to get an extra .001 off the run.

When running for class champ we would have just enough oil in the dry sump and lube in the rear end to make it a quarter mile.

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #83 on: March 26, 2018, 04:12:32 PM »
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #84 on: April 25, 2018, 04:19:32 PM »
What if it turns out the Earth isn't flat but Phillips or worse, Allen?
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #85 on: April 25, 2018, 04:23:05 PM »
Quote from: Warren on April 25, 2018, 04:19:32 PM
What if it turns out the Earth isn't flat but Phillips or worse, Allen?

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #86 on: April 25, 2018, 04:33:20 PM »
Or worse, Whitworth...
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #87 on: April 25, 2018, 05:06:33 PM »
Torx for the win ...
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #88 on: April 25, 2018, 05:07:52 PM »
Unbelievers! Earth is not a screw, that it should move! Tis riveted!
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #89 on: April 25, 2018, 05:08:28 PM »
Quote from: Fly320s on March 26, 2018, 11:39:23 AM
The Earth is real and chemtrails are round.


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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #90 on: April 25, 2018, 06:38:29 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on April 25, 2018, 05:06:33 PM
Torx for the win ...

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #91 on: April 25, 2018, 07:07:05 PM »
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #92 on: April 25, 2018, 07:16:39 PM »
Quote from: Warren on April 25, 2018, 04:19:32 PM
What if it turns out the Earth isn't flat but Phillips or worse, Allen?

Who's Allen?
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #93 on: April 25, 2018, 08:31:14 PM »
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #94 on: April 25, 2018, 10:29:29 PM »
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #95 on: February 23, 2020, 10:34:59 AM »
We have an update to this story. Mike Hughes has launched his last rocket:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51602655
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #96 on: February 23, 2020, 11:38:21 AM »
All sympathy to friends, family and fellow scientists.  His impact will not be forgotten.

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #97 on: February 23, 2020, 11:43:43 AM »
While the Earth might not be flat, it is mostly hard. He died living his passion - I reckon we should all be so lucky.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #98 on: February 23, 2020, 12:05:19 PM »
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #99 on: February 23, 2020, 01:57:36 PM »
Well at least he died doing what he loved: Ignoring the laws of physics.
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