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Nov 10, 2017 12:34 PM
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cousteau
I think I've suggested this before.
maxzero
Does anyone know roughly how many people actually, really, truly think the Earth is flat? It can't possibly be that many. Can it?
Spaceorbisgaming
You forget the part that we fly them into the sun.
Piscivore
Kornbluth did it!
ThatOneSceneInThatOneMovie
@Chocolateco0kie
monalistic
yes!
erbiumyttriumytterbium
The origin of Golgafrincham Ark B!
sollenwir
still might be a flat disc
HeavenOrHellLetsRock
SC2 Terran.
christopherwalkenslegs
if only
Nothingz
RIP Major Tom
Desloratadine
This is ground control to Major Tom
USvette1
Take your protein pills and get your enema on.
valintepes
Jokes on them. It's all a simulation. They're not trapped on a rocket in space. They're just locked in a tin.
Bunsen
We're still gonna let them run out of food and oxygen, though, right?
valintepes
"food and oxygen"... I think... I think one of these is obviated by the other.
Dingleberrygargler
Reminds me of hitchhiker's guide :)
superbob201
You think that flat earthers provide a service that is underrated and essential for the survival of humanity?
Dingleberrygargler
Lol
FriendlyNeighbourhoodSatan
Luckily none of them understand gravity well enough to have a hope of getting back safely.
aBastardNoLonger
I didn't really get that movie either tbh. *badum tsss*
FriendlyNeighbourhoodSatan
Boooo. +1
andrews042
If they came back to tell what they saw the Society woul label them as heretics and say they're part of the conspiracy.
PeatyMcSluggy
heh, the rocket would probably stop short of leaving the earth's orbit and come crashing down like a meteor.
jaychay
Surely flat earthers can't truly exist in any real capacity other than mental illness or attention seeking? That paranoia is mind boggling
godoffurniture
To the sun!
TheAstronaut
Why do people hate flat earthers so much? Suddenly everybody cares about facts?
Spaceorbisgaming
I wouldn't say hate more like don't want to deal with. The earth IS round the very idea of a flat planet is baseless.
FriendlyNeighbourhoodSatan
Because Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth somewhere around 200 bc without ever leaving egypt.
JMensch
Because despite even ancient civilizations knowing the world wasn't flat and all the scientific proof that the world isn't flat they still
JMensch
plug their ears and go "La la la la! Can't hear you! The world is flat because God rays and the UN flag and the Bible says so!
BalaclavaBob
BluddLoard
Mine dont use God or the bible and I live in the South
JMensch
God rays are beams of sunlight shining through clouds and the Bible is used as evidence of what's called "the firmament"
spookyactionatadistance
Those I've heard say nothing about religion. They just say that believing in a round earth makes us sheeps unable of critical thinking.
JMensch
God rays are beams of sunlight shining through clouds and the Bible is used as evidence of what's called "the firmament"
Ubayyd
How again do god rays contradict facts???
JMensch
Not sure. I think it's something to do with their angle? Not a flat earther so i don't know the details
raidleadergutts
God rays? So they worship the Sun?
iownanamericanshorthair
I bet that's Mike Pence calling mission control on radio.
NiceOneDingus
Set up the Go Fund Me and I will pitch in for this
FootinStirrup
That's a very expensive way to deal with dissent... because descent is not an option.
AncientPostNecromancer
The decent is the expensive part, if they just need Delta-v for one way thats pretty simple really. Smaller rocket and all that.
BuzzKiIlington
FootinStirrup
I feel humbled and embarrassed for how popular this comment was... because I told my GF I only expected 3 people to like it.
foesmono
Closing is not an option. #hwythruhell
qthegoodtimes
Bigmeatycurtians
That was decent
FootinStirrup
Desensitisation would rob English of much wit.
iputthefiresout
I love English
NateintheNorth
Me too. Dick pic anyone? D, sent.
Kenblu24
My boss would love one but she's running a pretty old os. Send it to Dee's NT.
UnemployedReceptionist
Anybody up for some desert?
BuckBoost
Only with a side of dessert.
FootinStirrup
You should read my dissertation on this topic.
HeadJamistan
WiseTalons
OMFG YES!!!! I MISS THIS SO MUCH
PokoOnoandtheJamJams
Dissent on descent would be a pretty cool band name
sunyudai
Descent into Dissent
sunyudai
^Name of my Ska + Ominous Latin Chanting fusion Tool cover band.
BubblesSayingDecent
You called?
deepdoodoobird
*carts rattle in the background*
WhatTheDormouseSaid
JustANoobOnImgurWithOneCat
Idontknowwhattonamemyusername
Hey, that was well done. Good job, pal.
BattleStarTrekGateWars
so if i become a flat earther i can win a free trip to space??
supernintendo64
This is inaccurate. They'll probably claim that it's a hologram or a picture or a video or something before they admit that they're wrong.
BobRossHB
Let em die, stupid needs to be breed out of us if we want to survive
Jsoft9
Those are some angry trees your painting there
Junktrunkjunkie
Well half of em already believe the moon or sky in general is a hologram, so no matter how real the experience is they will deny it.
Irreal
What a fuel efficient rocket, still firing at that altitude
asm80dfa8sdfj
The initial launch was done by slingshot.
NoeCarrier
It is obviously a matter conversion rocket, with mercury as the reaction mass or something. Can pull one gravity of acceleration for months.
PRDWRaven
Just enough to send them out of our solar system.
kostor
That is actually pretty hard. You need to get to ~30km/h
wrongLZ
Hohmann transfer burn...
jordankothe9
That's not how a hohmann transfer works. The rocket pictured is clearly in a suborbital trajectory, if not it's on an escape trajectory.
NoeCarrier
It is clearly already on a hyperbolic escape trajectory, probably on its way to a heliocentric orbit. Not far away enough! Keep burning!
LongoloidFartExplosion
Wouldn't they have to stay in orbit for a while so they could see the rotation of the Earth?
Dingus2
Looks like it's pointing straight away from the planet too.
Bunsen
And with the exhaust plume not overexpanding... Wait. They're still in the atmosphere! It's all fake! CHECKMATE GLOBISTS.
rocketturttle
priorities
SirButcher
They just go straight up. When the fuel is running out, they are coming almost straight back down. It will be a hot entry.
Titmouseman
Like the first time you fire a rocket into space in KSP and know nothing about orbits and/or escape velocity.
iHazPotato
You'd hit Earth's escape at that distance so they'd keep going :)
SirButcher
Nope! Escape trajectory depends on speed and not on distance!
iHazPotato
Obviously if the rocket is still firing it will have a high speed xD
SirButcher
It depends on the rocket. Escaping the Earth's gravity well requires about 11.2 km/s
AMartianPotato
Escape velocity is a function of distance.
AlmightyDylon
Wouldn't they just keep going once they broke the atmosphere
Moriarty
I guess they'd probably end up in orbit, because gravity, then when orbit decayed, they might burn up on reentry. But that could take ages.
lfrdwork
eh, Orbit is really hard to achieve, if it was only going up and didn't correct to accelerate horizontal it wouldn't be going around.
Moriarty
So would it be more likely to just keep going out and away?
usersubbordercontrol
You've never played kerbal space program, huh? And you'd have to far pass the Moon before Earth doesn't affect you
BavarianGuy
And you played it too much and don't think about n-body physics which kerbal hasn't without mods. To work around it the programmers put all
BavarianGuy
the planets on fixed rails, and around them the moons too, the only free floating parts are your creations, plus they simplified further
SirButcher
No, not at all! Earth's gravity doesn't end with the atmosphere. The Moon is kept there by Earth's gravity.
ArtemisFolly
If you reach escape velocity, it doesn't matter which direction you're going. The bigger challenge is getting to escape velocity while 1/
ArtemisFolly
earth's gravitational pull is directly resisting you. It gets weaker as you get farther away, but not fast enough that any rockets we 2/
AttackMyWeakSpotForMassiveDamage
Depends how far out of the gravity well actually. Gravity loss may not lower them below escape velocity if they're far enough out.
BavarianGuy
He was addressing the leaving the atmosphere part of it I guess, but yes, escape velocity it the magic word =)