/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12241043

Threadly reminder that rocketry is quite literally archaic technology, from Oriental mysticism, and these primates will perish on this rock in the looming cosmic calamity that befalls Earth with a disturbing regularity unless there are physics-based propulsion systems developed FAST.

>>9620120
>How high does he go? How does he account for gravity

That's actually and interesting set of questions. I guess it depends on what model he would be using -- they have several.

If "Gravity Is Not Real, Flat Earth is Accelerating Upwards at 1 g," then I guess he can make no allowances for gravity changing at all. (Unless he can go a lot higher, though, that should not be an issue.) And at some altitude he has to worry about hitting the sky, or the firmament, or the big glass dome, or whatever.

His bigger problem would be that there is, of course, a Huge Government Conspiracy (tm) to hide the fact that the Earth is really flat, for reasons never adequately explained. In which case, he will be shot down if he ever starts getting high enough to see the truth.

But all that is just said for fun -- he does not believe the Earth is flat, he believes that flattards will give him money to continue doing rocket stunts, since he is a daredevil with a rocket fetish.

IF he actually wanted to prove the Earth flat, there are MUCH easier ways to do it -- sending two teams to the Northern and southern hemisphere to show that there are not really circumpolar stars over both poles would do it, or taking a Geraldo-esque investigative news crew to Antarctica to prove they are forbidden to approach the ice wall might be another. Taking an airplane up high enough to see what the ISS really is would be another, as would flying around the world over the arctic and antarctic circles, and demonstrating that the southern one is shit-tons longer.

The drawback to any of those, of course, is that what he will in fact prove is not what he purportedly wants to prove, and, more importantly, he wouldn't get to fuck around with rocekts.