Two young children with a love for science did what no flat earther could. They sent a toy to space on a hydrogen filled balloon from their backyard.
Ok.. to be fair they had a little help from an aeronautics company in the UK, but the point is they made stuff happen, not just sit in their parents basement talking flat earth nonsense to others not trying to hear it on the internet 馃槤
Oscar Adams 9 and his sister Layla 7, sent their Blox Spaceman on a two and a half hour journey to the edge of space.
Apparently the brother sister duo absolutely love science and are regularly trying out experiments at home. When the UK aeronautics firm heard they wanted to launch a ballon to space they stepped in to offer some assistance by way of controlling the hydrogen and rigging the payload with camera equipment to capture its journey.
The ballon floated up to 23 miles above the Earth's surface, or approximately 3 times the height that commercial planes fly, before it popped.
The camera documented its entire journey and guess what?.. many of the shots clearly show the curvature of the Earth! 馃槺
Even though flat earth theorist Mad Mike had to push back his homemade rocket ship launch, we're still hoping he can get off the ground to provide us with some classic entertainment 馃榿
Sure he could just find a 7 and 9 year old child to help him launch a ballon to see a round earth, but his method is alot more fun! 馃殌馃巼
Have a great night!
@goldenarms