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This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
Washington Post ^ | 11/21/17 | Avi Selk

Posted on 11/21/2017 1:54:10 PM PST by Blue House Sue

Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.

Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program.

Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above the Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof of the disc we all live on.

“It’ll shut the door on this ball earth,” Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday’s flight. Theories discussed during the interview included NASA being controlled by round-Earth Freemasons and Elon Musk making fake rockets from blimps.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: australia; battlestarmoronica; california; flatearth; flatearther; flatearthliars; flatearthmorons; madmikehughes; mentalillness; mikehughes
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To: deport

That photo is giving me a bad feeling. I think the rocket is going to get confused with one arrow pointed up and the other down.


161 posted on 11/21/2017 8:03:34 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: rightwingcrazy
"A balloon with a digital camera would be cheaper, and safer."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Heck, a simple airline ticket would take him to ~35,000 feet...

162 posted on 11/21/2017 8:06:18 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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To: Salamander; shibumi
Like a moth to the flame, I’m drawn to interaction with those who have bizarre and confusing senses of humor like mine.
163 posted on 11/21/2017 8:08:54 PM PST by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: Paladin2
I thought I'd seen everything!


164 posted on 11/21/2017 8:09:25 PM PST by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: 50mm

Loony seeks its own level?

;)


165 posted on 11/21/2017 8:14:06 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: 50mm

An Engineer dies and goes to hell.
He’s hot and miserable, so he decides to take action.
The A/C has been busted for a long time, so he fixes it. Things cool down quickly.

The moving walkway motor jammed, so he unjams it. People can get from place to place more easily.

The TV was grainy and unclear, so he fixes the connection to the Satellite dish and now they get hundreds of high def channels.

One day, God decides to look down on Hell to see how his grand design is working out and notices that everyone is happy and enjoying umbrella drinks. He asks the Devil what’s going on?

The Devil replies, “Things are great down here since you sent us that engineer.”

“What?? An engineer? I didn’t send you one of those, that must have been a mistake. Send him back up right this minute.”

The Devil responds, “No way! We are going to keep our engineer. We like this guy.”

God demands, “If you don’t send him to me immediately, I’ll sue!”

The Devil laughs. “Where are YOU going to get a lawyer?”


166 posted on 11/21/2017 8:17:07 PM PST by Salamander (And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
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To: Salamander

It’s that or maybe dementia.


167 posted on 11/21/2017 8:26:37 PM PST by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: Blue House Sue

I say go for it.

Besides, there’s nothing anyone can say to change his mind.


168 posted on 11/21/2017 8:27:08 PM PST by servo1969
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To: Salamander; shibumi
False! There can’t possibly be an engineer in hell!

Well, maybe the engineer who designed those new gas can spouts. And maybe the engineer who designed those toilets you have to flush twice to clear everything.

169 posted on 11/21/2017 8:32:05 PM PST by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: 50mm

Upon graduation the class made a cheap T-Shirt - said “When I die I know I’m going to heaven, ‘cuz I’ve already been through XXXXX.” (Name of engineering school).

I’m not sure it actually works like that, but....


170 posted on 11/21/2017 9:43:39 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: NorthMountain

Put hilLIARy in that rocket so she can make it to earth 2.


171 posted on 11/21/2017 10:04:02 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: NorthMountain

I hope to tell you, Pal...
They live and breathe right here on FreeRepublic.


172 posted on 11/21/2017 10:12:43 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi
I wanna know, will Mr. Hughes be wearing a tailored suit and tie, when he does this? S W E E T.


173 posted on 11/21/2017 10:25:56 PM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Blue House Sue

“I packed last night pre-flight, zero hour nine am and I’m going to be high as a kite by then.”


174 posted on 11/22/2017 3:16:26 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Blue House Sue

Another example of public “education”....


175 posted on 11/22/2017 3:30:20 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: shibumi

Yup, ran into a few of them, amazing that they even exist here.


176 posted on 11/22/2017 1:04:21 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

when you’ve been exposed to enough conspiracy mongering on FR, you’ll realize straight thinking is hanging on by a thread.


177 posted on 11/23/2017 6:04:30 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: calljack

Those are not windows.. They are video screens.. They don’t want you to know the truth.

or something like that.


178 posted on 11/23/2017 6:07:39 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: NorthMountain

flat earthers or democrats?

probably one in the same.


179 posted on 11/23/2017 6:08:13 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: tet68

I guess...

any landing you can be pulled out alive from is a good landing?


180 posted on 11/23/2017 6:12:58 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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