On September 8th, 1974, famous daredevil Evel Knievel climbed into a steam-powered rocket and attempted to blast across Idaho’s Snake River Canyon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1khN1xyBw
I should’ve sued Evel Knievel for wrecking my bicycle a dozen times or more. I jumped everything until Becoming a pilot ;).
I really believed 50 years after that attempt rockets would be taking me to the moon station on a schedule.
Mike was very shy of scientific knowledge if he thought that an altitude of 5,000 feet would disprove a round/spherical Earth, never mind the 2,000 feet he hoped to exceed during this test. I wonder if he had any advisors who discussed spherical geometry with him? Did he have any advisors at all?
So the Me 163 didn’t work then?
That seems to be the nature of those who choose to experience Life via social media and/or youtube comment entries.
Well, may he rest in peace.
Well, put.
Props
Maybe too soon - but I love it ?
You’re joking, right? Or do you come from a place where there is no personal responsibility? This guy actually did this before, announced he was gonna do it again, and Discovery was filming it. This is America, dude.
I hope he had life insurance, and I hope that if his family sues Discovery, they sue back, and bankrupt them.
They have zed liability. This guy had done this before, and announced he was doing it again.
Not to speak ill of the dead, but anyone who gets on that whole flat earth thing for whatever reason is deserving of scorn and ridicule or better yet just being ignored. Wild conspiracy theories used to be harmless fun, but nowadays they’re being weaponized through social media. When large swathes of ignorant people get turned away from science and start buying wholesale into made-up alternate realities, well, the ending isn’t going to be pretty.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!