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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / For... Science?!?
« on: 23/02/2020 06:17:31 »
I just read that "Mad Mike" Hughes died today when his steam-powered rocket crashed as he tried to prove that the Earth is flat....
I have mixed feelings.
Obviously, he was a human being, and as such his death is sad. On the other hand... what a way to go! At least he was a professional daredevil, whose hobby included amateur rocketry, so his family and friends couldn't have expected too different an outcome (it's a matter of when, not if).
And I can respect that he was so devoted (obsessed?) to empirical testing of his hypothesis. If only he could have been satisfied by less dangerous methods!
I remember hearing about his ambitions to fly to space in a homebuilt rocket a few years ago. This is about what I imagined would happen...
I have mixed feelings.
Obviously, he was a human being, and as such his death is sad. On the other hand... what a way to go! At least he was a professional daredevil, whose hobby included amateur rocketry, so his family and friends couldn't have expected too different an outcome (it's a matter of when, not if).
And I can respect that he was so devoted (obsessed?) to empirical testing of his hypothesis. If only he could have been satisfied by less dangerous methods!
I remember hearing about his ambitions to fly to space in a homebuilt rocket a few years ago. This is about what I imagined would happen...