Darwin Award nominees
12Yikes! All I can say is Yikes. On Saturday this idiot plans to launch himself into space in a homemade rocket made of scrap metal powered by a steam engine. He is launching it from a modified mobile home. His eventual goal is to put himself into space to prove the world is flat. His previous attempt crashed. He’s an ex-limo driver who admits he has a “lot to learn about rocket science”…
So who else out there should also be nominated?
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I love people that go all out to prove what they believe in even if it’s crazy. I hope he doesn’t die.
@sammydog01 And this time he plans to go higher and further.
@Kidsandliz Go or get?
@ACraigL Well it might be wise to “get” if the outcome is going to be the same as the one @sammydog01 posted the video of.
@sammydog01 Gosh, I hope he doesn’t fly up, then over the edge of the Earth. That would suck.
@daveinwarsh Now that is a thought. I wonder what he thinks is over the edge. I mean what keeps the ocean from draining out over the edge?
/giphy flat earth waterfall
well not what I was looking for but that is so nice I will leave it.
@Kidsandliz The flat earth is surrounded by an ice sheet that extends forever. The so-called “polar ice caps” actually surround us, as there is no “top” or “bottom” to the flat earth. Only the center and the edge.
@mike808 OK. I’ll trust your research. LOL
@mike808 I disagree.
I think that aliens installed huge rain gutters around the Earth to catch the ocean water.
It then goes to a really really big bucket.
@daveinwarsh @mike808 What? I thought the huge rain gutters had windmills to raise the water up above the earth and then it runs the water through a giant shower head to make rain. If what the two of you are saying is true (either one of the stories) I’ve been lied to my entire life!!!
@Kidsandliz Shut up or we’ll ask you to explain why people in Australia and Chile see the same stars, but entirely different ones than we do in America and Britain.
@mike808
/image seeing stars
@mike808 There actually is no “Australia and Chile”.
It was all made up and implanted in our brains by the ‘Round-Earthers’. Damn them!
@daveinwarsh @mike808 Pretty good mind fakery as I’ve been to Australia twice.
@daveinwarsh @mike808 @moondrake
So they led you to believe you were not in Kansas anymore?
Do people believe all the videos of outer space are all hoaxes? I mean, you have constant video from the ISS for crying out loud.
@RiotDemon When my daughter was young she didn’t believe people had been to the moon. So I bought the dvd “For all mankind” which is home videos on the moon (and a really fantastic documentary). My child then told me it was “all hollywood”. Of course she also believed at one point that if it was a movie it was “real” and if it was a cartoon it was “fake”. LOL
@Kidsandliz A while back and for a few years, The Simpsons was the sitcom that was closest to reality.
@RiotDemon My boyfriend is convinced that there’s no way people could have gotten to the moon, because we’re too stupid. He tends to mention that when he sees signs of mass stupidity, like the election of Trump…
@RiotDemon I agree that the ‘Flat Earthers’ are hogwash.
I prefer to go with the ‘Taco Earthers’.
Yes, we’re living on a huge cosmic space taco. That’s the only explanation for global warming (hot sauce). It would be the hard shell taco, of course.
Documented Internet Proof (stolen from NASA):
@narfcake make a t-shirt with that…
@Kidsandliz That would be something @jasneko could do. I’m someone who can screw up drawing a stick figure.
Drafting, OTOH …
@narfcake
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Flat-Cats-Everything-Off/dp/B0714BHLK1
Trump?
Just sayin’
@PhysAssist Trump fans.
@OldCatLady
Yup!
Couldn’t you do the same thing with a drone with a camera on it? Stupid people make my head hurt.
@Fuzzalini Weather balloon. But the government could tap into the camera and change the feed. Being paranoid is so much work.
@sammydog01 And so much imagination.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned that the article says he plans to launch to 1800 whole feet in the air to prove his theory. He could just buy a plane ticket and go many times higher than that.
@djslack I bet in the plane he would take the windows are movie screens. The same hollywood conspiracy my kid bought into when she was in grade school.
@Kidsandliz I think there was a Mission Impossible episode where they did that.
@therealjrn umm…does that mean he could be right?
@chienfou Sure does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible
@djslack He could climb a mountain and admire the view. Mt. Etna is 10,000 plus feet above sea level. The views are stunning, and he’ll stay nice and warm.
@OldCatLady
Since he’s not much for science and evidence, perhaps if he got to the top of Mount Etna, Vulcan could swallow him.
@f00l The locals say it’s Polyphemus, and proudly show the rocks he threw at Odysseus. I’ve seen 'em. Then there are snow snakes and lava worms, which attack without warning.
@OldCatLady
Modern Con Artist Idiot vs Mythologically Significant Volcano?
How can that be anything but good? Where are the reality TV producers?
Well I guess today is the day to find out if he will live through this crash. Unfortunately I won’t be home until after midnight to find out.
@Kidsandliz If I understand correctly, he was refused permission to launch himself from public land, as he had planned. I don’t know why someone doesn’t just tell him to walk west till his hat floats, or gives him a sailboat so he can go sail off the edge.
@OldCatLady Chicken.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/25/mad-mike-hughes-cancels-rocket-launch-prove-earth-flat/894762001/
@sammydog01 womp womp… Maybe next week.
@sammydog01 Thanks for the update so I don’t have to go looking. I just got home (2:30am) and was curious. Came here to look as I figured someone would find out and post it.
@OldCatLady Just ‘big gubment’ demanding permits for everything. What’s next, bump stocks? Morans!
What I gathered from the article is that he converted to a flat earth belief, so he could sucker more idiots out of money to fund his stunts.
@RiotDemon this is what I gathered as well, tried a fund raising that netted a few hundred was all.
I believe a quick “k bye” is all this guy needs.
@Targaryen
You don’t want him to experience the thrill of being eaten by a Volcano God?
@f00l I mean it’s not the first on my list of things to experience… but I’m not gonna rule it out.
He completed a short launch on the 24th.
And yes, he still plans to launch himself 85 miles above Earth before the year is over.
@PlacidPenguin Yeah I saw that the other day. The question is why doesn’t he just get into an airplane and go to 30,000 feet since neither launch so far went was even close to that. I also read he was thinking about a launch using balloons…
@Kidsandliz @PlacidPenguin
@Kidsandliz @moondrake @PlacidPenguin
Lawnchair Larry.
http://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html
https://www.wired.com/2009/07/dayintech-0702/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
@narfcake Some of these people definitely have an “issue”. LOL