Mad Mike Hughes, science denier, to fly steam rocket over ghost town

[Michael]

Yes, but when used on a space capsule, I'm sure Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White would have appreciated an exception.

That problem was caused by introducing a full oxygen atmosphere into the capsule, not because of the way the hatch was hinged.

 

[Michael]

I see now that essentialsaltes beat me too it.

 

[AV1611VET]

That problem was caused by introducing a full oxygen atmosphere into the capsule, not because of the way the hatch was hinged.

Why did NASA change it then?

 

[Speedwell]

Why did NASA change it then?

Rectifying an engineer's (not a scientist's) mistake. Scientists know better.

 

[AV1611VET]

Rectifying an engineer's (not a scientist's) mistake. Scientists know better.

Well if scientists and engineers co-labor at NASA, I'd say the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

Wouldn't you?

 

[Speedwell]

Well if scientists and engineers co-labor at NASA, I'd say the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

Wouldn't you?

Often they do not.

 

[essentialsaltes]

WaPo is still winning.

"Assuming the 500 mph, mile-long flight above the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program."

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Why did NASA change it then?

A change was planned well before the fire - it wasn't a popular design decision among the people who had to use it.

 

[Motherofkittens]

I hope he got the science, err, I mean "the formula" right and stays safe. I'm a little worried about him.

 

[JackRT]

He just might be shut down as a hazard to air navigation if no flight plan is filed.

Well, as it turned out I was right.

 

[AV1611VET]

You disgust me.

Please come back!

I don't bite!

 

[AV1611VET]

You disgust me.

Any chance of coming back?

 

[Michael]

Any chance of coming back?

Mannequin Skywalker just demonstrated (again) that the Earth is a sphere, and he came back.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Another failure to launch on Feb 3rd.

 

[Gene2memE]

Meanwhile, Falcon Heavy has become the most powerful rocket man has ever put into space, and will shortly be capable of lifting 64 tonnes into low earth orbit - roughly 265% more than the Space Shuttle could and more than double the load of the existing most powerful rocket, the Delta IV.

Or, it could put a 16 tonne payload into orbit around Mars.

Yay, progress!

 

[essentialsaltes]

Well, it's clearly a huge publicity stunt, so he's no doubt counting on a lot of dummies out there to sign up for his PPV event... even if nothing happens.

Since I'm convinced this is primarily a ploy for attention, I'll stop updating unless he actually verifiably launches himself.

 

[Ophiolite]

Since I'm convinced this is primarily a ploy for attention, I'll stop updating unless he actually verifiably launches himself.

Or gets a job at Pizza Hut.

 

[Halbhh]

Hughes is a 61-year-old limo driver who’s spent the last few years building a steam-powered rocket out of salvage parts in his garage.

His first test of the rocket will also be the launch date — Saturday , when he straps into his homemade contraption and attempts to hurtle over the ghost town of Amboy, California. He will travel about a mile at a speed of roughly 500 mph.

“I don’t believe in science,” said Hughes, whose main sponsor for the rocket is Research Flat Earth. “I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”

If he gets in that contraption and fires it off, I wish him the best of luck.

Perhaps in a thrilling moment his consciousness might be unblocked some and he could have an epiphany. I wish him luck also.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Since I'm convinced this is primarily a ploy for attention, I'll stop updating unless he actually verifiably launches himself.

He appears to have done it.

 

[Steve Petersen]

A science denier building a rocket! Apparently this guy doesn't understand irony.