Posted on 02/23/2020 7:13:17 AM PST by deport
A daredevil has died after crashing in a homemade rocket he had launched himself while filming a program.
"Mad" Mike Hughes, 64, died on Saturday near Barstow, California, after a rocket that he had built and crashed into the ground on private property at approximately 1:52 p.m. on Saturday near Highway 247, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
"In a cosmic quest to explore the final frontier on a shoe-string budget, Mike Hughes and Waldo Stakes have built a steam powered rocket that will launch "Mad Mike" 5,000 feet into the air," said an article on the Science Channel, owned by the Discovery Channel, that has since been updated to confirm Hughes' death. "As ground-breaking and awe-inspiring as this event will be, it is only the first step towards an even more ambitious goal in space exploration."
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Here, hold my beer!
Too fast to live, too young to die, Bye, bye
The next Darwin Award entry.
The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget.
” Hughes, who believed the Earth is flat, propelled himself about 1,875 feet into the air before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert in March of 2018.
“My story really is incredible,” Hughes told the AP at the time. “It’s got a bunch of story lines — the garage-built thing. I’m an older guy. It’s out in the middle of nowhere, plus the Flat Earth. The problem is it brings out all the nuts also, people questioning everything. It’s the downside of all this.”
Actually, he was the head nut. And bringing out the nuts obviously wasn't the only downside.
He seemed like a nice guy, though not all there. Folks should have stopped him rather than trying to exploit him for their amusement. This outcome was a certainty.
“In a cosmic quest to explore the final frontier on a shoe-string budget,
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He did get to explore the final frontier, but not the one he had in mind.
and a "steam powered rocket"
The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget.
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And 5,000 feet isn’t space. There are better ways to get to that altitude.
Flat MIke the Flat Earther
It reminds me of Otis T. Carr.
Actually it’s not bringing OUT the nuts; it’s bringing the DOWN. At terminal velocity.
Was this guy related to Super Dave?
Yes. He could have used weather balloons and a lawn chair.
Steam Power,,,!?!
.
His Choo-Choo
was Loco,
Amigo.
The earth is not flat.
However, Mike Hughes is flat.
Super Dave always survived albeit with a lot ohs and owws.
I can see it bringing out the nuts. Those were probably his last words.
“Nuts! Nuts! Nuts! Nuts! Nuts! Nuts!”
Acme rocket?
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