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Headlines You Don't See Every Day (outside of Florida)

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"The well-known daredevil and amateur rocket-engineer was doing a rocket launch Saturday in what appears to be near Barstow, CA -- where a reporter says Mike propelled himself into the air with a "self-made steam-powered rocket" and then crash-landed into the ground."

There's a reason that "rocket science" is used as a general descriptor for stuff that's really hard to master. "Amateur rocket engineer" probably shouldn't be a thing.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
...or because he learned the earth was round?
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He didn’t get high enough to come to that conclusion.

For Saturday's experiments, Mike is said to have been attempting to get as close to space from Earth as possible -- otherwise known as the Karman line, about 62 miles above Earth's surface -- without the use of advanced tech you might find at NASA or SpaceX.
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He was definitely high enough to think it was flat.
 
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CFPBuckeye said:
He didn’t get high enough to come to that conclusion.



He was definitely high enough to think it was flat.
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...."let me (try to) propel myself 62 fucking miles into the air to prove the world is flat".....


:slappy:

The Darwin award was created for this kind of stupidity and self selection.

This guy is an all timer.

Perhaps the GOAT.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
...."let me (try to) propel myself 62 fucking miles into the air to prove the world is flat".....


:slappy:

The Darwin award was created for this kind of stupidity and self selection.

This guy is an all timer.

Perhaps the GOAT.
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I just wish I was there to see it. Yakkity sax had to be playing and the impact definitely made a fart noise.
 
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CFPBuckeye said:
I just wish I was there to see it.
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Oh sweet blue baby jesus.

If someone would have approached me with an offer to buy a ticket to watch some moron try to get 62 miles into the air on a homemade, steam rocket...to prove the earth was flat....they would have had a sale.

In fact, the salesman probably could have called it a day as I bought tickets for friends and relatives. I would have dropped some serious coin to watch that kind of asshattery provided I was given a waiver for encouraging it by bringing a crowd.
 
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