Flat-earther Mike Hughes died after crash-landing his homemade rocket. He was trying to get to the edge of space to click a picture of the earth and prove the earth is flat (www.reddit.com)

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

There was one of them a while back who got up pretty far in some homemade device and subsequently abandoned flat earthism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Experiment_(expedition)

I like this one where some guy took 48 flat earthers to Antarctica and made them see a midnight sun.

The participating flat Earthers all admitted that the midnight sun was a real phenomenon. The larger flat Earth community has largely rejected the results and accused the participants, including the flat Earthers, of having faked the expedition and of being part of a larger conspiracy to promote the spherical Earth model.

[-] ghosts@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

You're telling me I can grift my way to a free trip to Antarctica???

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

There's an even better grift where they'll pay for your food and lodging if you get a PhD first. I'm trying to pull a fast one on NASA and get on the ISS to avoid paying rent.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alabama pastor Dean Odle suggested that Satan created a fireball to act as a false sun. Some flat Earthers accused Duffy of taking funds from his church to finance the expedition, which he has denied. Dominic Enyart, a friend of Duffy and a member of his congregation, said the accusations were baseless

hahaha