🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Miller High Life, the
ChampagneCrystal Pepsi of beers:
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@boomzilla I'd have thought the author would have been
167-671
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@boner If nothing else, you gotta acknowledge the man's balls. Most flat earthers just sit at home and post on the internet about science being fake and gay. Catch one of them actually flying a rocket.
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I'd just like to have a moment of silence out of respect for this guy, who thought that getting a picture of his car's odometer saying "BOOBS" was totally worth the risk of a fiery crash. Bonus points for the innuendo of the speedo reading 69 MPH at the same time...
And now that we've had a moment of silence, I think we can agree that it was a pretty bad idea.
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@boner said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
WaPo paywall. AFAICT, the content isn't there, or if it is, it's hidden more thoroughly than it's worth the bother to figure out how to unhide it.
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boner said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
WaPo paywall. AFAICT, the content isn't there, or if it is, it's hidden more thoroughly than it's worth the bother to figure out how to unhide it.
Content:
This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
By Avi Selk
November 21, 2017 at 1:51 PM
Watch more!Self-taught rocket builder Mike Hughes plans to fly in his homemade rocket above the Mojave Desert in Southern California on Nov. 25. (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)
Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.
Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program.
Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above the Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof of the disc we all live on.
“It’ll shut the door on this ball earth,” Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday’s flight. Theories discussed during the interview included NASA being controlled by round-Earth Freemasons and Elon Musk making fake rockets from blimps.
Hughes promised the flat-Earth community that he would expose the conspiracy with his steam-powered rocket, which will launch from a heavily modified mobile home — though he acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science.
“This whole tech thing,” he said in the June interview. “I’m really behind the eight ball.”
That said, Hughes isn’t a totally unproven engineer. He set a Guinness World Record in 2002 for a limousine jump, according to Ars Technica, and has been building rockets for years, albeit with mixed results.
“Okay, Waldo. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1!” someone yells in a test fire video from 2012.
There’s a brief hiss of boiling water, then . . . nothing. So Hughes walks up to the engine and pokes it with a stick, at which point a thick cloud of steam belches out toward the camera.
He built his first manned rocket in 2014, the Associated Press reported, and managed to fly a quarter-mile over Winkelman, Ariz.
As seen in a YouTube video, the flight ended with Hughes being dragged, moaning from the remains of the rocket. The injuries he suffered put him in a walker for two weeks, he said.
And the 2014 flight was only a quarter of the distance of Saturday’s mile-long attempt.
And it was based on round-Earth technology.
Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.
It was originally scheduled for early 2016 in a Kickstarter campaign — “From Garage to Outer Space!” — that mentioned nothing about Illuminati astronauts, and was themed after a NASCAR event.
“We want to do this and basically thumb our noses at all these billionaires trying to do this,” Hughes said, standing in his Apple Valley, Calif., living room, which he had plastered with drawings of his rockets.
“They have not put a man in space yet,” Hughes said. “There are 20 different space agencies here in America, and I’m the last person that’s put a man in a rocket and launched it.”
He compared himself to Evel Knievel, as he promised to launch himself from a California racetrack — the first step on his steam-powered leap toward space.
The Kickstarter raised $310 of its $150,000 goal.
Hughes made other pitches, including a plan to fly over Texas in a “SkyLimo.” But he complained to Ars Technica last year about the difficulty of funding his dreams on a chauffeur’s meager salary.
A year later, he called into a flat-Earth community Web show to announce that he had become a recent convert.
“We were kind of looking for new sponsors for this. And I’m a believer in the flat Earth,” Hughes said. “I researched it for several months.”
The host sounded impressed. Hughes had actually flown in a rocket, he noted, whereas astronauts were merely paid actors performing in front of a CGI globe.
“John Glenn and Neil Armstrong are Freemasons,” Hughes agreed. “Once you understand that, you understand the roots of the deception.”
The host talked of “Elon Musk’s fake reality,” and Hughes talked of “anti-Christ, Illuminati stuff.” After half an hour of this, the host told his 300-some listeners to back Hughes’s exploration of space.
While there is no one hypothesis for what the flat Earth is supposed to look like, many believers envision a flat disc ringed by sea ice, which naturally holds the oceans in.
What’s beyond the sea ice, if anything, remains to be discovered.
“We need an individual who’s not compromised by the government,” the host told Hughes. “And you could be that man.”
A flat-Earth GoFundMe subsequently raised nearly $8,000 for Hughes.
By November, the AP reported, his $20,000 rocket had a fancy coat of Rust-Oleum paint and “RESEARCH FLAT EARTH” inscribed on the side.
While his flat-Earth friends helped him finally get the thing built, the AP reported, Hughes will be making adjustments right up to Saturday’s launch.
He won’t be able to test the rocket before he climbs inside and attempts to steam himself at 500 mph across a mile of desert air. And even if it’s a success, he's promised his backers an even riskier launch within the next year, into the space above the disc.
“It’s scary as hell,” Hughes told the AP. “But none of us are getting out of this world alive.”
This is true. Yet some will try to live to see its edges.
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@tsaukpaetra Will he be the next Darwin Award winner? Or will someone else manage to win one first? Stay tuned for exciting developments!
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@tsaukpaetra Will he be the next Darwin Award winner? Or will someone else manage to win one first? Stay tuned for exciting developments!
TBH I didn't read the article whatsoever. I just made the post stop containing obvious not-really-an-html-tag-that's-sanitized-by-the-sanitizer tags.
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@tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Rust-Oleum paint
I saw this earlier, and ... wtf is Rust-Oleum paint and whytf is it worth pointing out? This guy presumably built a rocket, and somehow the paint he used is interesting enough to mention?
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@cvi It's inexpensive spray paint from your local hardware store. I'm sure it's not relevant except as a dig at the level of "engineering" that went into building the thing.
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
WaPo paywall.
Blocked by my JavaScript blocker. I guess. Amazing.
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Wow, this link from the article was highly enlightening:
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@zecc said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Wow, this link from the article was highly
enlighteningbenighted:FTFY
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@zecc Gotta love that description of the sun... I guess the sun must shine like a flashlight - a single focused beam!
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@zecc said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
WaPo paywall.
Blocked by my JavaScript blocker. I guess. Amazing.
Or maybe I've hit the limit of free articles for the month but you haven't. Whatever.
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@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@zecc Gotta love that description of the sun... I guess the sun must shine like a flashlight - a single focused beam!
Is the sun flat?
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boner said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
WaPo paywall.
PROTIP:
Open link in incognito window
. Then close the window after you're done.However, they buried the lede:
Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.
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a lot of people in other parts of France would be mystified or even offended if you accused them of being even slightly Ch'ti.He's just using them for their money, apparently.
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@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
He's just using them for their money, apparently.
In that case, and carry on... (Can we suggest names for his ship?
H.M.S. Beagle
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@dcon The Beagle was a good, seaworthy vessel. This one . . . remains to be seen.
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@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.
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a lot of people in other parts of France would be mystified or even offended if you accused them of being even slightly Ch'ti.He's just using them for their money, apparently.
Yeah he seems to have played the flat-Earthers good.
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon The Beagle was a good, seaworthy vessel. This one . . . remains to be seen.
Yes, but Darwin.
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@dcon I see your point, but I still don't like the idea of defaming an honourable name by attaching it to ... this.
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@zecc said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Wow, this link from the article was highly enlightening:
They don't waste time. First question listed:
Is this site a joke?
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Apparently an Australian restaurant named Lion&Buffalo decided to put some "Lion and Buffalo" images on their products...
so not only did they just grab some Zootopia fanart off google images without permission, they put an obviously sexual muscle fetish picture on their menu cover.
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@thegoryone said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I can think of a number of worse fetishes you could use to advertise your business
Clearly restaurants should go with vore.
...oh god that's actually a pretty horrifying idea.
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@thegoryone said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I can think of a number of worse fetishes you could use to advertise your business
Clearly restaurants should go with vore.
...oh god that's actually a pretty horrifying idea.
Sausage Party R34 vore.
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@thegoryone said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I can think of a number of worse fetishes you could use to advertise your business
Clearly restaurants should go with vore.
...oh god that's actually a pretty horrifying idea.
Armin Meiwes is intrigued, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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@pie_flavor said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@thegoryone said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I can think of a number of worse fetishes you could use to advertise your business
Clearly restaurants should go with vore.
...oh god that's actually a pretty horrifying idea.
Sausage Party R34 vore.
Blood sausage, and you don't want to know where the chef got the blood.
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"iPhone Speaker - Amplifies sound from the iPhone's built-in speaker"
It's a fucking TRUMPET for your PHONE.
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@anonymous234 I see the problem. "Designed for iPhone 3/4/4s"
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@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 I see the problem. "Designed for iPhone 3/4/4s"
Because there was no iPhone 3, right?
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https://screenrant.com/frozen-short-olaf-frozen-adventure-coco-most-brutal/
Apparently Disney decided to put a 21-minute film they had intended as a TV holiday special (in other words, boring filler songs) before the Pixar Coco movie, and people are slightly upset.
"I can't wait to watch this movie that is not Frozen... DAMMIT, THEY TRICKED US AGAIN!"
This could be an idea for a dystopic universe where Frozen takes over everything. You go watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi but it's actually Frozen 2. You go to the supermarket to buy food, but instead of food it's Olaf's Frozen Adventure. You try to take a taxi back home, but the taxi is Frozen 3. You start feeling very sick and try to go to the hospital, but there are no hospitals anymore, only Frozen.
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Just let it go already
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@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Miller High Life, the
ChampagneCrystal Pepsi of beers
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@r10pez10 I don't get it. They seem to have had their uses when one could not amplify the sound through microphones and speakers
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Apparently Disney decided to put a 21-minute film they had intended as a TV holiday special (in other words, boring filler songs) before the Pixar Coco movie, and people are slightly upset.
As quoted in the article:
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@jbert said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@r10pez10 I don't get it. They seem to have had their uses when one could not amplify the sound through microphones and speakers
'twas a reply to this post:
@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"iPhone Speaker - Amplifies sound from the iPhone's built-in speaker"
It's a fucking TRUMPET for your PHONE.
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@zecc said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Apparently Disney decided to put a 21-minute film they had intended as a TV holiday special (in other words, boring filler songs) before the Pixar Coco movie, and people are slightly upset.
As quoted in the article:
The extended "short" sounds ridiculous but probably not more than this guy's conjured reason for it.
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@boomzilla He may be on to something though, as I was completely unaware that Disney had even made a new movie. The only thing I know about Coco is that it features a terrible Frozen short before it.
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@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The extended "short" sounds ridiculous but probably not more than this guy's conjured reason for it.
Half an hour can be a "short" in the same world where eighteen minutes can be "feature length" (Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902, which did not contain music).
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@hungrier said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla He may be on to something though, as I was completely unaware that Disney had even made a new movie. The only thing I know about Coco is that it features a terrible Frozen short before it.
This, plus I saw an ad on the side of a bus from which I discerned the words "Disney" and "Coco." I still have no idea what Coco itself is about.
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I still have no idea what Coco itself is about.
FuckThank you Disney, you ruined Google's result when searching for my first computer (nicknamed Coco)
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I still have no idea what Coco itself is about.
I'm guessing it's about the short-lived Conan O'Brien version of the Tonight Show.
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@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Is anyone actually interested in watching Avatar 2? Let alone Avatar 5?
James Cameron is.
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@da-doctah said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The extended "short" sounds ridiculous but probably not more than this guy's conjured reason for it.
Half an hour can be a "short" in the same world where eighteen minutes can be "feature length" (Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902, which did not contain music).
Arguably, they're not the same world. Movies have changed drastically in the last 100+ years, including becoming much longer. Originally, a feature film was not defined by length, but simply that it was the main, advertised attraction (as opposed to cartoons, newsreels, etc. that might be shown with it). The first film to meet the modern definition of "feature length" (There is no universal definition of this. AMPAS defines a "short" as 40 minutes or less, including credits, while Sundance Film Festival sets the limit at 50 minutes. SAG sets the lower limit of a feature film at 80 minutes.) was made in 1906: The Story of the Kelly Gang; an earlier (1897) film of a boxing match was longer, but is not considered by film historians to be a feature film in the modern sense, as it is simply an unedited record of the fight.