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I wonder, since he designed the rocket himself, if the same engineering flaw affected all parachutes.
by mysterydip 7y ago
I wonder, since he designed the rocket himself, if the same engineering flaw affected all parachutes.
- tyingq 7y agoMy various links suggests there was both an altimeter driven deployment, as well as a manual "oh shit" handle. Multiple things must have gone wrong.
- vanattab 7y agoI could easily imagine he did not even realize something was wrong until it was to late to react.
- DonHopkins 7y agoMaybe his altimeter depended on the earth being flat.
- tyingq 7y agoI wonder what flat earthers think of horizon indicators. Or, I guess, the horizon in general.
- cardiffspaceman 7y agoBased on a quick reading of the TFES website there is a notion of Universal Gravity [1] which at first glance would seem to orient a simple horizon indicator in the right direction. There are also some articles on perspective from their POV which are easy to find. Their ideas of perspective are novel. [1] http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Gravity http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=...
- lonelappde 7y agoIf you mean horizon as in a "horizontal earth service, to which your plane might not be parallel to", Flat Earth is more compatible with horizon than a spherical Earth. If you mean "where the sky meets the ground far away", it's a finite distance away but maybe you can't ever reach the end, perhaps due to increasing drag force the closer you get to the edge, and a curved prism that distorts optics. If you allow natural forces to vary with distance from the edge of a disk, you can probably recovery most spherical phenomena. There's a sort of equivalence between static geometry models and dynamic force models.
- tyingq 7y agoI meant where the ground meets the sky. If there's a measurable distance landmark there, the math of "I'm on a sphere" is hard to argue with. Especially if you repeat the exercise in many far flung places.