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.
Flat MIke the Flat Earther
Was this guy related to Super Dave?
The earth is not flat.
However, Mike Hughes is flat.
Acme rocket?
The fact that somebody this stupid lived to be 64 is an achievement in itself.
The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions.
Liberals In a couple of decades, if left alone to their life styles, will have destroyed themselves via their abortions, drug use age, homo sexual life styles, both DNA wise and soul wise due to their stupid and terminal life choices.
The Democratic Party is rapidily morphing into the DCP/DonnerCrat Party on a daily basis.
Here we have another: Darwin Award Winner!
once saw Conan Obrien interview this guy. What sticks out in my memory is that its a miracle this guy made it into his 60s. The other is that he talked about about sex with young girls, a lot.
The Karman line at 5000 feet?
From Wikipedia: The Karman line is the altitude where space begins. It is 100 km (about 62 miles) high.
Anybody seen the video? Reminded me of Wiley Coyote.
Dumbass.
This was not Hughes’ first launch. 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.
Darwin Award winner!