Posted on 11/25/2017 8:11:55 PM PST by MtnClimber
A California man’s quest to prove the Earth is flat will begin sometime next week when he plans to launch himself 1,800 feet in the air in a homemade scrap-metal rocket.
“Mad” Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver who describes himself as a “self taught-rocket scientist,” has spent the past few years constructing a homemade rocket from scrap parts.
His ultimate goal is to fly 10 miles above ground to prove the Earth is flat and disk-shaped.
Hughes has invested $20,000 into constructing the rocket, which he hopes will travel at roughly 500 mph. Hughes’ initial plan was to launch his rocket Saturday over the ghost town of Amboy, California. However, he was forced to relocate after the Bureau of Land Management caught wind of the planned stunt.
“Someone from our local office reached out to him after seeing some of these news articles (about the launch), because that was news to them,” BLM spokeswoman Samantha Storms told The Washington Post.
Not one to be constrained by a government bureaucracy, Hughes told The Post he would be launching his rocket sometime in the next week on private property near Amboy.
“It’s still happening. We’re just moving it three miles down the road,” Hughes said. “This is what happens anytime you have to deal with any kind of government agency.” The rocket’s main sponsor is Research Flat Earth.
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That is a long way from the 17,500 mph he will need to achieve low Earth orbit.
This is not his first attempt to exit the gene pool. Last attempt had him on a walker for a few weeks.
He said it was from 5G forces. More likely the acceleration thereto.
Like these guys?
https://youtu.be/_xVeOCnKTMw
%Gs will be the start. The end may be 100s of Gs.
Much like Evel Knieval at the Snake river Canyon joke
What's the chances the Flat Earth Society, Flat Earth Research, and the 61 year old rocket boy is trolling everybody?
I figured Shaquille O' Neal was just having some fun, but, uh...maybe he is that stubborn?
Me thinks he has issues.
The flying Wallendas satiated the gods several times.
This must be the rocket scientist.
https://youtu.be/Q9g7sBVUFMs
Was Galileo in on this? Did Columbus know he was destined to fail?
How does this man explain charts and navigation? How do they work if the world's really flat? Are magnetic compass makers in on the secret, or is our understanding of physics and magnetism wrong?
Let’s see. 1800 feet altitude. So I can rent an airplane and a pilot for a couple of hours or spend years and tens of thousands building a home made rocket ship likely to explode upon launch.
Hmmm.... What do do? What to do?
Sigh...great minds, I guess...
“The Washington Post, USAtoday, and London Telegraph report that his engine is steam-powered. If it really is, I predict he won’t get more than ten feet from his launcher.”
Hydrogen peroxide would be steam powered...
Yes, you could take a commercial jet flight to a nearby city and get photos out of the window from 30,000 ft and it would only cost a few hundred dollars.
But that would be like spending billions on global temperature prediction software that does not match real readings that show no change.
Does that have sufficient initial thrust?
Scotsman demonstrates earth’s curvature without spending a dime on rocket science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bco_p4V7-QU
Start of the descent from 23 miles high:
And breaking the sound barrier on the way down:
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