Earth not flat

[Paddy]

Quite. The Earth isn't flat, but the universe is.

[filthy1980]

"earth not flat"

mans not hot

[Hobosapien]

https://news.sky.com/story/mad-mike-...aunch-11146298

Sky News (appropriate source ) report launch delayed until Tuesday (today?). No word if he'll be taking a bowl of spaghetti with him for the journey.

[d000hg]

He's actually going for this years Darwin award.

He's already built successful manned rockets IIRC, certainly he has a track record of engineering things that work.

[d000hg]

More amusing is that 550m is not really very high. Even if you don't believe in aeroplanes(?) You can go up buildings higher than that or just walk up a hill.

[northernladyuk]

If the earth was flat, gravity at the south pole would drag you horizontally back to the equator.

Even if the Earth is much thicker and denser around the Southern circumference?

[barrydidit]

The most compelling evidence I've ever heard that the earth is flat is that MF hasn't rolled off it.

[northernladyuk]

The most compelling evidence I've ever heard that the earth is flat is that MF hasn't rolled off it.

His gravitational pull is too great.

[greenlake]

The most compelling evidence I've ever heard that the earth is flat is that MF hasn't rolled off it.

His gravitational pull is too great.

[northernladyuk]

A nice thought, but kg is a unit of mass, not weight.