I think the saddest part of this is that Mad Mike's death is that is basically illustrates the pointlessness of the whole flat earth movement.
He didn't accept the scientific evidence for a non-flat earth, of which there is an overhelming abundance. He didn't accept the efforts of (literally) millions of specialists who have been launching satellites and people into space since the middle of the last century, who have produced photographs, videos, hardware and scientific breakthroughs almost daily. Or the tens of millions more who develop and use the physics, other sciences and engineering that support these activities. Or the billions who use tools like GPS, satellite communication or weather modelling that are direct outcomes of space industries and the reality of a round earth, orbiting a star at a distance of (approximately) 150,000,000 km.
Instead, he built an inadequate tool, based on the flawed assumption that his own eyes and own efforts were the only ones he could trust because he didn't or wouldn't understand that the work done by these billions IS valid.
I feel for his family.
As an aside, I also wonder if he *had* photographed a curved horizon if his photos would have been accepted by the flat earth movement, or if he or they would just ignore it, like they do with other proofs for a spherical, rotating earth ("15° per hour" - Bob Knobel, a prominent flat earther, using a laser gyroscope finds evidence for a rotating earth.)
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