https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/22/565926690...
Similar to what he said about the Earth being frisbee-shaped, I believe the Earth is round, but I know I don’t have personally-acquired observation that my belief is fact.
It all started with some guys on youtube making probably quite decent money with their videos explaining that the earth is flat. Tons of people shared links to show others "look how stupid that guy must be". Because the videos were indeed made in the way to make you think the author is not very smart. I believe the suckers were those sharing the links and author decided that he'd rather have cash than his pride, outsmarting them all.
What surprised me, is that quite a few science channels made videos explaining and proving that the earth is not in fact flat, often providing links to some "flat-earther" video, basically helping him doing what he does.
Just being able to shoot a semi-decent video and uploading it to youtube, plus making some arguments for the earth being flat, takes way more comprehension than realizing that the earth is not flat. If there is some real flat-earther that made a video about it - you haven't seen it. Because it was likely low quality, not entertaining and he couldn't make it viral.
With that in mind, I think being able to launch a hunk of metal to 2k ft with just $20k is actually really quite impressive. I don't care if he raised money for the flat earth cause or any other scandalous cause, I think he did a legitimately impressive engineering feat, risked his life for it, raised money for it, didn't hurt or rob nobody. I am thoroughly entertained by this guy. Anyone with an iota of a brain will quickly realize this is just a comedy sketch, but as they say, a fool and his money are soon parted. If they didn't give money to this guy, they would have given their money to another stupid cause. And if anyone decides to give their money to any flat earth cause, I'd rather see they give money to this one.
With that in mind, I don't think I would go so far as going on the radio saying stupid shit just to raise money for my hobby project. But then, the world rewards people with crazy ideas and crazy execution plans when they work. Clearly, this is one of the instances when an unlikely funny idea actually worked. If I knew about this earlier, I would have chipped in some of my money just because it's so hilarious (and I can see many people would do that too).
https://gizmodo.com/at-long-last-flat-earth-rocketeer-finall...
This guy should be praised instead of ridiculed by a bunch of internet non-contributing zeroes.
(ORIGINAL: Obviously not trying to argue that the Earth is flat, but there are round things that are also flat)
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/27076/what-is-t...
Or, just book a flight on a commercial airliner, which is also cheap but doesn't get you a panoramic view. But you'll get way higher than 1875 feet.
1875 ft ≈ 570 m
150 miles ≈ 240 km
350 psi ≈ 2.4 MPa
350 mph ≈ 560 km/h
86 miles ≈ 140 km
