[starik36]

If he is a true believer, he is at least willing to test those beliefs by conducting an experiment. As it should be. How many true believers of anything are willing to have their their minds changed?

This guy should be praised instead of ridiculed by a bunch of internet non-contributing zeroes.

[Houshalter]

Yeah what he did was definitely cool. But if you just want to test a hypothesis, it would be much easier to send a camera and not a whole person. Also a balloon could obtain a higher altitude than any amateur rocket. And people have filmed the curvature of the Earth with just balloons, they can get quite high.

[starik36]

I am sure just the enormous challenge of actually building a rocket with a couple of friends also played a major role.

[crowbahr]

Except he doesn't believe, he just wants to go do something dangerous and adventurous and have other people pay him for it.