This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat

Washington Post ^ | 11/21/17 | Avi Selk

[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.

[COBOL2Java]

Maybe Felix Baumgartner could offer him a ride

[montag813]

Hold muh Four Loko Gold...

[TotusTuus]

Sasquatch! He’s all time ‘Hide and Seek’ Champion of the World! (flat, or otherwise). Deserves a platinum medal.

[Sirius Lee]

[shibumi]

I just read some of the other posts on this thread which in turn caused me to look up a couple of other cases.

There are at least two people who have exceeded 15,000 feet altitude by strapping helium balloons to their lawn chairs.

Hmmmmm... Let’s see now...

Homemade rocket?

Lawn chair with balloons?

I’ll take Lawn Chair for the win Alex!

[CodeToad]

“If the Earth was flat, cats would have already knocked everything over the edge.’

Winner!

[Paladin2]

"Larry hiked into the forest and shot himself on October 6, 1993. He died at the age of 44. "

That's pretty sad for an innovator/folk hero..

[Paladin2]

Why not? Credit Default Swaps seem to work out fine for Wall Street.

[50mm]

As chance would have it, I was listening to Led Zeppelin while driving home from work and just before I read this thread. Rocket man may soon find, as did Icarus, that it is inadvisable to test the gods.

[Gamecock]

Not to be confused with hollow earthers.

[NorthMountain]

Not to be confused with hollow earthers.

No ... that's an entirely different collection of nutburgers.

[Salamander]

I say let ‘er rip.

[Salamander]

Pffffft.

Pikers.

[Salamander]

"For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky...

[Salamander]

So this is what happened?

[NorthMountain]

The author of that graphic is in possession neither of the facts nor of his faculties.

[50mm]

It’s now official, this thread has potential.

[Salamander]

Potential for what?

Running headlong into wholesale madness?

;)

[Salamander]

The Batsh*t Brigade.

They have the coolest uniforms.

[21twelve]

I’ve seen a few of those youtubes with the balloons and cameras and a GPS unit to track it with once it lands/falls back to earth. Pretty cool (and relatively cheap) stuff.