Self-Taught Rocket Scientist Plans Launch

[catcul]

A limousine driver and "self-taught" rocket engineer is planning a manned rocket launch up to 2,000 feet Saturday. It being sponsored by a group called "Research Flat Earth," a group of conspiracy theorists that believe that the Earth is a flat disc.

I only see potential for disaster because:

*He's a "self-taught rocket engineer." That means he has had no training making rockets.
*His previous rocket only went 1,000 feet high.
*He doesn't believe in science. Actually, that would explain most conspiracy theorists.

Good luck, you're going to need it.

Man Plans To Launch Himself In Homemade Rocket Funded By Flat-Earthers

[Greenday]

Should have an interesting obituary on Sunday.

Hopefully the shrapnel when it explodes doesn't hurt any innocent bystanders.

[s_stabeler]

I disagree- he mostly seems to see rocketry as not actually science, but he does seem to know how to calculate the relevant variables.

[Greenday]

And he chickened out because he knew he'd die/be wrong.

[mjr]

The speculation I'm hearing is that his "funding" dried up originally, so he was pretending to be a flat-earther to get money, so people could basically watch him fail.