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ajgurewitzajgurewitz Member Posts: 10 Arc User
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/
Did anyone else see this story and think of Zephram Cochrane?

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    eazzieeazzie Member Posts: 4,000 Arc User
    @baddmoonrizin Ten Forward post
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    garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    ...

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    artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    ajgurewitz wrote: »
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/
    Did anyone else see this story and think of Zephram Cochrane?

    Not really no. Cochrane was somewhat of a rocket scientists functioning human with working brain, so knew the Earth is an oblate spheroid.
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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    garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    i see elon musk more like cochrane. well there is no post apocalyptic earth around him but not everything can be like trek canon
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    joshmauljoshmaul Member Posts: 519 Arc User
    I thought of this guy more like Wile E. Coyote.
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    captainbrian11captainbrian11 Member Posts: 733 Arc User
    If you're not smart eneugh to know the earth is round you're proably not smart eneugh to build a rocket
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    where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Did he lose his parachute at lift off, instead of it deploying on landing? I gotta read the article.
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    evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    where2r1 wrote: »
    Did he lose his parachute at lift off, instead of it deploying on landing? I gotta read the article.

    In the video you can see the parachute accidentally getting deployed somehow during launch, and the article goes on to say that there were three other chutes but none of them deployed as the rocket came down.
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    anodynesanodynes Member Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    artan42 wrote: »
    ajgurewitz wrote: »
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/
    Did anyone else see this story and think of Zephram Cochrane?

    Not really no. Cochrane was somewhat of a rocket scientists functioning human with working brain, so knew the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

    Well, Mad Mike probably knew that, too. I always got the impression that he just suckered the Flerfers into bankrolling his pet project by pandering to them. Still, trying to build and fly your own rocket is a likely lead-in to a Darwin Award, no matter what you believe.

    Just wait, the Flerfers will disregard the parachutes and blame this on him hitting the firmament.
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    darkbladejkdarkbladejk Member Posts: 3,715 Community Moderator
    /moved to ten forward
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    starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    Didn't someone already prove this a few years ago with an orbital skydive?
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    theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 5,986 Arc User
    People can be prize idiots at times.
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      rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,018 Community Moderator
      starkaos wrote: »
      Didn't someone already prove this a few years ago with an orbital skydive?
      [sarcasm]
      No! Obviously its all a lie! The Earth is OBVIOUSLY flat, and how you supposedly circumvent the "globe" is Pac-Man physics of you phase off one edge and appear on the opposite edge! ITS SO OBVIOUS THAT IS THE ANSWER!
      [/sarcasm]

      Joking aside, some Flat Earther actually DID suggest Pac-Man as a reason for going around the planet.
      Also I once knew someone who believed the Earth was only 5000 years old and Humans lived alongside Dinosaurs. Also apparently Carbon Dating doesn't work. Funny thing is... the guy this person believes, BOTH scientific and religious communities think is a hack. They actually agreed on something.

      So yea... people can be dumb. Doesn't matter what evidence you provide to counter them, they will beat you over the head with their own so called "evidence" until you give up or convert.
      Hell... I once heard of a politician who believes wind farms will actually STOP the rotation of the Earth because they consume the wind, which is needed to rotate the Earth.

      And whenever I hear these totally STUPID things that contradict all rational, scientific or otherwise...
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      jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,365 Arc User
      anodynes wrote: »
      artan42 wrote: »
      ajgurewitz wrote: »
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/
      Did anyone else see this story and think of Zephram Cochrane?

      Not really no. Cochrane was somewhat of a rocket scientists functioning human with working brain, so knew the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

      Well, Mad Mike probably knew that, too. I always got the impression that he just suckered the Flerfers into bankrolling his pet project by pandering to them. Still, trying to build and fly your own rocket is a likely lead-in to a Darwin Award, no matter what you believe.

      Just wait, the Flerfers will disregard the parachutes and blame this on him hitting the firmament.
      Apparently there's already a group claiming he was shot down by NASA.
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      artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
      jonsills wrote: »
      anodynes wrote: »
      artan42 wrote: »
      ajgurewitz wrote: »
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/
      Did anyone else see this story and think of Zephram Cochrane?

      Not really no. Cochrane was somewhat of a rocket scientists functioning human with working brain, so knew the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

      Well, Mad Mike probably knew that, too. I always got the impression that he just suckered the Flerfers into bankrolling his pet project by pandering to them. Still, trying to build and fly your own rocket is a likely lead-in to a Darwin Award, no matter what you believe.

      Just wait, the Flerfers will disregard the parachutes and blame this on him hitting the firmament.
      Apparently there's already a group claiming he was shot down by NASA.

      By NASA? Ha! Amateurs. Obviously the lizard people are framing NASA so it's never discovered that the Earth is not in fact flat, but hollow.

      Layers within layers.
      22762792376_ac7c992b7c_o.png
      Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
      JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
      #TASforSTO


      '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
      'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
      'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
      '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
      'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
      '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

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      starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
      artan42 wrote: »
      jonsills wrote: »
      anodynes wrote: »
      artan42 wrote: »
      ajgurewitz wrote: »
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/
      Did anyone else see this story and think of Zephram Cochrane?

      Not really no. Cochrane was somewhat of a rocket scientists functioning human with working brain, so knew the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

      Well, Mad Mike probably knew that, too. I always got the impression that he just suckered the Flerfers into bankrolling his pet project by pandering to them. Still, trying to build and fly your own rocket is a likely lead-in to a Darwin Award, no matter what you believe.

      Just wait, the Flerfers will disregard the parachutes and blame this on him hitting the firmament.
      Apparently there's already a group claiming he was shot down by NASA.

      By NASA? Ha! Amateurs. Obviously the lizard people are framing NASA so it's never discovered that the Earth is not in fact flat, but hollow.

      Layers within layers.

      I thought the lizard people were trying to prevent humans from discovering that the Earth is designed like an onion not hollow.
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      artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
      starkaos wrote: »
      artan42 wrote: »
      jonsills wrote: »
      anodynes wrote: »
      artan42 wrote: »
      ajgurewitz wrote: »
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/
      Did anyone else see this story and think of Zephram Cochrane?

      Not really no. Cochrane was somewhat of a rocket scientists functioning human with working brain, so knew the Earth is an oblate spheroid.

      Well, Mad Mike probably knew that, too. I always got the impression that he just suckered the Flerfers into bankrolling his pet project by pandering to them. Still, trying to build and fly your own rocket is a likely lead-in to a Darwin Award, no matter what you believe.

      Just wait, the Flerfers will disregard the parachutes and blame this on him hitting the firmament.
      Apparently there's already a group claiming he was shot down by NASA.

      By NASA? Ha! Amateurs. Obviously the lizard people are framing NASA so it's never discovered that the Earth is not in fact flat, but hollow.

      Layers within layers.

      I thought the lizard people were trying to prevent humans from discovering that the Earth is designed like an onion not hollow.

      No, that's the illuminati.
      22762792376_ac7c992b7c_o.png
      Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
      JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
      #TASforSTO


      '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
      'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
      'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
      '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
      'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
      '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

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      dragonseye1138dragonseye1138 Member Posts: 91 Arc User
      edited February 2020
      obviously this is all a secret plot by the chinese survivors of the third inner-earth war fought between the mole-men and the lizard-people to conceal the fact that the Roswell crash was not actually aliens, but was in fact a top secret prototype flying saucer super aircraft built as a joint German/American effort post WWII and launched from the secret underwater airbase at the bottom of lake Superior. The aircraft collided with a mogul spy balloon that was built as a test-bed for the resurgent Philadelphia Experiment and sent back through time from the far future as a Russian plot to contaminate the American drinking water.

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      garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
      ...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzfOzOWPnuQ
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      legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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      welp...there obviously wasn't a lifeguard in this guy's gene pool​​
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      theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 5,986 Arc User
      Top contender for the Darwin Awards
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        starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
        theraven2378 wrote: »
        Top contender for the Darwin Awards

        How many non-posthumous winners of the Darwin Awards are there?
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        jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,365 Arc User
        Not many - to win, you have to creatively remove yourself from the gene pool, preferably before reproducing, and very few of the creative methods permit one to survive the process...
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        theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 5,986 Arc User
        jonsills wrote: »
        Not many - to win, you have to creatively remove yourself from the gene pool, preferably before reproducing, and very few of the creative methods permit one to survive the process...

        This pretty much counts
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          "The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
          -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
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          starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
          jonsills wrote: »
          Not many - to win, you have to creatively remove yourself from the gene pool, preferably before reproducing, and very few of the creative methods permit one to survive the process...

          It is far more fun to hear about the non-posthumous winners. Especially when they realize that they will have to live with the honor of being a winner of the Darwin Award.
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          legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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          i think getting your balls bitten off by a beaver would qualify, yes?​​
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          #LegalizeAwoo

          A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
          An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
          A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
          A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"

          "It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
          "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
          Passion and Serenity are one.
          I gain power by understanding both.
          In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
          I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
          The Force is united within me.
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          starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
          edited March 2020
          shadowfang240 wrote: »
          i think getting your balls bitten off by a beaver would qualify, yes?​​

          It depends. Dipping them in Peanut Butter and then waving them in the beaver's face would qualify. A beaver sneaking into the sleeping victim's tent and wants a snack does not qualify. The Darwin Awards requires the contestants to intentionally do something incredibly stupid to qualify. Horrifying and humorous accidents that are not the fault of the victim do not apply.
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