Flat Earther launches steam powered rocket. Goes up. Discovers Gravity is real. Earth remains round.

[tomhagen]

[ret5hd]

1. An elevator ride in a tall building would have given him more data.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I'm a little puzzled: did he think gravity wasn't real?

Was that the purpose of this?

Nice rocket!

[dalton99a]

3. He's too poor to buy an airplane ticket

[Crash2Parties]

4. More info here

And yes, it's just as wacky as you'd expect. But the comments are good.

[marble falls]

5. Hell, the wood fired rocket worked better than that.

[tomhagen]

6. Did someone tell him weve already been to Earth Orbit?

[RainCaster]

7. A first class moron

How do you circle something that is flat?

[Liberalagogo]

8. Wile E.

did it first.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. And he never gave up

"Never give up, never surrender!" -- WEC

[LongTomH]

13. From Acme Aerospace......

[Turbineguy]

9. Yes.

The diameter of the Earth is 14 miles. And no matter where your are, you are at the center!

[BigmanPigman]

10. These people all spew the same BS word for word.

I met one at the park while he was training his pet turtle how to walk on a leash. He whipped out his smart phone with all sorts of info proving his claims of a wall of ice built around a flat Earth. I googled it when I came home and his BS was the same that I saw on google...they have answers for everything (at least they think they do). All of the airplane pilots, camera manufacturers, airplane window manufacturers, all of NASA, since the dawn of man are all "in on it". A 100 year old conspiracy to trick us gullible Sir Isaac Newton fans.

[petronius]

11. Huh, I was doubly wrong: I didn't think he'd ever do it, and I didn't think

he'd survive if he did. (Glad to be wrong on the second point, obviously!)

Can't wait for the paradigm-shifting flood of empirical data and peer-reviewed scholarship that will almost certainly result from this...