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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: Larry Lucido

What could possibly go wrong...?


21 posted on 11/21/2017 2:03:59 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Simon Green

I don’t think he understands the gravity of the situation.


22 posted on 11/21/2017 2:04:13 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue
He'd better hope the Earth is soft as well as flat.
23 posted on 11/21/2017 2:04:52 PM PST by snarkpup (The swamp is draining; and the alligators are allegating.)
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To: Blue House Sue

If they believe the Earth is flat, why not just drive (or sail) to the edge and see?


24 posted on 11/21/2017 2:05:48 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: Blue House Sue

Why doesn’t he launch a high altitude balloon with a camera? Others have done it.

Maybe he wants to do us a favor by cleaning the gene pool.


25 posted on 11/21/2017 2:06:20 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Blue House Sue

i highly recommend the astronaut farmer...

good movie.


26 posted on 11/21/2017 2:06:34 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Is he taking a change of underwear for the eventual crap he takes in his pants...?


27 posted on 11/21/2017 2:06:40 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: unixfox

Anyone have that old cartoon of a porcupine with a balloon? There are onlooking porcupines who say “this won’t last long.”


28 posted on 11/21/2017 2:07:05 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Every Californian who supported "sanctuary state" has blood and ashes on his/her hands)
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To: Moonman62

‘Maybe he wants to do us a favor by cleaning the gene pool.’

There will be a pool of genes where he lands, but it won’t be clean.


29 posted on 11/21/2017 2:07:20 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue
a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket

Much cheaper to hire an airplane ... he can get a lot higher than 1800 feet that way.

30 posted on 11/21/2017 2:08:15 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Blue House Sue

” Shortly after the launch, the only thing that will be flat is this flat earther’s head.”


If they can find the pieces ...


31 posted on 11/21/2017 2:09:00 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Blue House Sue
Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above the Earth

A commercial airline flight will accomplish that.

32 posted on 11/21/2017 2:09:12 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Blue House Sue

All he has to do to prove the Earth is flat is take a carpenter’s level to the ocean or a flat horizon and level the level on the horizon; see? the Earth is flat.


33 posted on 11/21/2017 2:10:30 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: Blue House Sue

34 posted on 11/21/2017 2:10:59 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Blue House Sue

Per the article:

He built his first manned rocket in 2014, the Associated Press reported, and managed to fly a quarter-mile over Winkelman, Ariz.

As seen in a YouTube video, the flight ended with Hughes being dragged, moaning from the remains of the rocket. The injuries he suffered put him in a walker for two weeks, he said.


35 posted on 11/21/2017 2:11:22 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Larry Lucido

36 posted on 11/21/2017 2:11:23 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: Blue House Sue

HIC SVNT DRACONES!

Update the map!


37 posted on 11/21/2017 2:11:30 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Blue House Sue

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


38 posted on 11/21/2017 2:11:47 PM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: Blue House Sue

1800 feet? A rental plane would be a lot cheaper - or go big and take a commercial flight to 30K feet. Still he’d have a long way to go to see any curvature. Maybe a ballon like the sky dive guy used last year.


39 posted on 11/21/2017 2:11:51 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: EC Washington

Odungo got his....


40 posted on 11/21/2017 2:12:01 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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