'Mad Mike' Hughes launched himself into the heavens in a steam-powered rocket he built himself, to confirm his theory that the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee. And to the surprise of almost everyone, Hughes took flight, and landed more or less intact. This past March, Mad Mike actually climbed into his steam-powered rocket, and set off to see what he could see. 'No, you don't! Especially at about 1,800 feet up.'

We don't decide how fast things accelerate in a vacuum by voting on it.' When it comes to knowledge, more democratic is not good, absolutely not.

'It's more democratic isn't that good?' asked Silva-Braga. There's no guarantee that anything you find on it is true.' He said, 'Oftentimes younger people will say, 'Well, the internet is just a big library.' That's wrong the internet is a big dumpster. Nichols poured his expertise into a book about 'The Death of Expertise' (Oxford University Press).

We've developed a kind of reverse snobbery that says if you have a great deal of education, if you're at a well-known institution, by definition you must be a liar!' He told Silva-Braga he thinks something new is happening: 'People have really become obsessed with the idea that, if it's not part of their direct experience, it can't be true. National security expert Tom Nichols, who teaches at the Harvard Extension School, takes a dim view of Flat Earth.

Part of the whole Flat Earth thing is keeping us locked down, not knowledgeable about who we are, who we really are as people, and what we're capable of.' We, all of us in humanity, are the pawns. According to Steere, 'It's a giant game of chess.

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