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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Flat-earther Mike Hughes died after crash-landing his homemade rocket. He was trying to get to the edge of space to click a picture of the earth and prove the earth is flat

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Flat-earther Mike Hughes died after crash-landing his homemade rocket. He was trying to get to the edge of space to click a picture of the earth and prove the earth is flat

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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    You know flat earthers who do this sort of stuff are at least sticking by their convictions. They have full faith in a sort of warped logical positivism, and based on this they have a thesis that they wish to prove and they set out to do so. It is a very pure embrace of scientific principles. There was one of them a while back who got up pretty far in some homemade device and subsequently abandoned flat earthism

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      There was one of them a while back who got up pretty far in some homemade device and subsequently abandoned flat earthism

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Experiment_(expedition)

      I like this one where some guy took 48 flat earthers to Antarctica and made them see a midnight sun.

      The participating flat Earthers all admitted that the midnight sun was a real phenomenon. The larger flat Earth community has largely rejected the results and accused the participants, including the flat Earthers, of having faked the expedition and of being part of a larger conspiracy to promote the spherical Earth model.

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        deleted by creator

        • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          There’s an even better grift where they’ll pay for your food and lodging if you get a PhD first. I’m trying to pull a fast one on NASA and get on the ISS to avoid paying rent.

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        Alabama pastor Dean Odle suggested that Satan created a fireball to act as a false sun. Some flat Earthers accused Duffy of taking funds from his church to finance the expedition, which he has denied. Dominic Enyart, a friend of Duffy and a member of his congregation, said the accusations were baseless

        hahaha

      • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        I didn’t know about that one, that’s funny as hell

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    Did he get the pic at least?

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      looks like he could’ve flown higher in a cessna

      • SwitchyandWitchy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        I’ve flown an rc plane higher rofl

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      I like the idea that in his final moments he saw the curve and was like “well shit…”

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    flattened earther kelly

  • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    He got to close to the truth

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    those bastards… he was too close. they had to sabotage his mission. we know the truth tho. i specifically observed my wife when she was leaving me and her car drove straight in a line out of my life for what felt like forever. and we’re supposed to believe the earth has a curve. this was exactly what i was telling her when she left. all because they got to her. the globalists.

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      globalists

      I think you mean discalists dean-sussy

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    From what I understand this guy was more of a daredevil who said he MAYBE believed in flat earther shit so he could get them to crowd fund his janky rocket builds.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    proven-wrong-1 proven-wrong-2

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Vaxxed?

    • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Looking into it

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    can’t call him a grifter at least

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    I just finished this questline in fallout new Vegas last week

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    I dont think Ive laughed harder at watching someone die (aside from Brian Thompson). What a fucking dipshit

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      I laughed at the fact that I didn’t remember who Brian Thompson is but I remember Luigi hahaha

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    Not even close bruv

    Also what is a weather balloon?

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    see-you-space-cowboy

  • Monk3brain3 [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    This is some Looney toons shit

    • casskaydee [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Not entirely convinced it isn’t an elaborate viral marketing scheme for the upcoming Coyote v. Acme movie

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        Lmfao. That’s funny

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    this guy and the titanic guy seem very similar, but at least Mike didn’t take anybody else out with him

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