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OT: sometimes it’s just destiny

JohnInCarolina
JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,668
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You can’t make this stuff up.  May he rest in peace, the glorious moron.  
"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • Boileregger
    Boileregger Posts: 614
    Evolution works.
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,333
    Now, if we can just save enough of last years' flu shot for the anti-vaxxers... :giggle:
    "Hallelujah, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell,
    The Christmas we get, we deserve"
         -RIP Greg Lake

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • johnnyp
    johnnyp Posts: 3,932
    Big pharma didn't want him to reveal the truth.  sabotage
    XL & MM BGE, 36" Blackstone - Newport News, VA
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,668
    edited February 2020
    And this is part of it all too, unfortunately.  Death as spectacle.


    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • johnnyp
    johnnyp Posts: 3,932
    Idk, I take your point about rampant anti-intellectualism becoming normalized, but no one would be advocating for committing evil knievel or travis pastrana if their stunts had gone sideways.  
    XL & MM BGE, 36" Blackstone - Newport News, VA
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,668
    johnnyp said:
    Idk, I take your point about rampant anti-intellectualism becoming normalized, but no one would be advocating for committing evil knievel or travis pastrana if their stunts had gone sideways.  
    I would suggest Knievel and Pastrana are slightly different entities than Hughes, to put it mildly.  
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • johnnyp
    johnnyp Posts: 3,932
    edited February 2020
    Their motivations are certainly pointing in different directions.  I am disappointing that his stunt was marketed by the Discovery family of networks.  I guess thats my fault for expecting more from the network that brought us Naked and Afraid.

    My point being that television has been featuring daredevil stunts for decades.  Though, the tweet you posted advocated for him being committed.  Ultimately, I don't disagree with the sentiment.  Just pointing out that the tweet seems overly reactionary.
    XL & MM BGE, 36" Blackstone - Newport News, VA
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    Gory visual media today, is only watching the coliseum slaughters and public beheadings, and hangings of the historic global civilization.

    People have not lost their thirst for obscene violence, it is just now, it can be enjoyed on your favorite couch in the comforts of your home.

    If some knucklehead wants to blow himself up, there will always be people standing in line, or dialing up the image to witness.

    Destiny.

    Indeed.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,142

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  • blind99
    blind99 Posts: 4,974
    supposedly the flat earth thing was part of his schtick, not sure he really believed it. 

    Anyways, I agree, someone should have stopped him from strapping himself to a homemade rocket.
    Chicago, IL - Large and Small BGE - Weber Gasser and Kettle
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  • SemolinaPilchard
    SemolinaPilchard Posts: 1,282
    blind99 said:
    supposedly the flat earth thing was part of his schtick, not sure he really believed it. 

    Anyways, I agree, someone should have stopped him from strapping himself to a homemade rocket.
    That is probably true. One thing we know about him is, he didn't schtick the landing.
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  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 7,317
    I wonder why he didn’t do a trial run with a lab rat in the cockpit?
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,668
    Gulfcoastguy said:
    I wonder why he didn’t do a trial run with a lab rat in the cockpit?
    I think he tried, but he never could get the rat to tell him whether or not the Earth looked flat from 20,000 feet.   
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,627
    Gulfcoastguy said:
    I wonder why he didn’t do a trial run with a lab rat in the cockpit?
    Apparently he has done multiple previous launches.  One in 2018 reached over 1,800ft.

    The real stupid part was using a steam powered rocket for the first couple of thousand feet, then a balloon for the next 62 miles.  Would have been safer and easier to just use the balloon from the ground.

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

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  • SaltySam
    SaltySam Posts: 887
    “Glorious Moron” will be going in the grammar quiver

    LBGE since June 2012

    Omaha, NE

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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,333
    Ozzie_Isaac said:
    The real stupid part was using a steam powered rocket for the first couple of thousand feet, then a balloon for the next 62 miles.  Would have been safer and easier to just use the balloon from the ground.
    Huh.  Didn't a father help his daughter with a science project, attaching a video camera to a weather balloon, and it got high enough to see the Earth's curvature?  Had forgotten about that.  
    "Hallelujah, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell,
    The Christmas we get, we deserve"
         -RIP Greg Lake

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    Botch said:
    Ozzie_Isaac said:
    The real stupid part was using a steam powered rocket for the first couple of thousand feet, then a balloon for the next 62 miles.  Would have been safer and easier to just use the balloon from the ground.
    Huh.  Didn't a father help his daughter with a science project, attaching a video camera to a weather balloon, and it got high enough to see the Earth's curvature?  Had forgotten about that.  

    We had some interns send a bean bag chair into space on a weather balloon with several gopro cameras attached last summer. 110,000 feet! You could definitely see the curvature of the earth. I'll see if I can find the video and post it.
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    Here she is at 100,000 feet:


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