Understanding the (Really Ridiculous) Core Tenets of the Flat Earth Hypothesis

[rangerrebew]

Understanding the (Really Ridiculous) Core Tenets of the Flat Earth Hypothesis

    December 2, 2017

by Stephen Johnson
 

In 1492, Columbus set sail for the New World based on the assumption that Earth was round. Why not? After all, according to historian Jeffrey Burton Russell, “no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat.”

But nearly 500 years later, an American man was planning a voyage based on the exact opposite assumption. Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, was going to launch himself into space to prove that Earth is flat. Mechanical complications and the federal government shot that idea down, however. (For now at least.)

http://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/understanding-the-really-ridiculous-core-tenets-of-the-flat-earth-hypothesis

[Joe Wooten]

I would not call flying in a rocket to 1800 feet exactly "launching into space"....

He could do it a lot cheaper in a Cessna 150.

[thackney]

I would not call flying in a rocket to 1800 feet exactly "launching into space"....

He could do it a lot cheaper in a Cessna 150.

But he wouldn't get the attention he is now getting.

[Restored]

Flat Earth is not a real belief. They are Contrarians, like Newthers and Contrailers. My sister is a Contrailer and my brother is a Moon Hoaxer.

[Snarknado]

I would not call flying in a rocket to 1800 feet exactly "launching into space"....

He could do it a lot cheaper in a Cessna 150.

There've been Mexican funerals that achieved better altitude than that...

[Idiot]

There've been Mexican funerals that achieved better altitude than that...

In a similar vein....

Was visiting with a Mexican guy a few years ago at a drilling rig...he was the driller.  He was heading off to his relatives quinceañera (girls 15th birthday celebration) for the weekend.  He said he had to make sure to get ammo for the gun he was going to carry in his boot...lol...plus he was carrying a knife or 2 as well.  Guess he had an interesting family...lol.

[Snarknado]

In a similar vein....

Was visiting with a Mexican guy a few years ago at a drilling rig...he was the driller.  He was heading off to his relatives quinceañera (girls 15th birthday celebration) for the weekend.  He said he had to make sure to get ammo for the gun he was going to carry in his boot...lol...plus he was carrying a knife or 2 as well.  Guess he had an interesting family...lol.

The family that slays together...