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.
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What could possibly go wrong...?
I don’t think he understands the gravity of the situation.
If they believe the Earth is flat, why not just drive (or sail) to the edge and see?
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.
i highly recommend the astronaut farmer...
good movie.
Is he taking a change of underwear for the eventual crap he takes in his pants...?
Anyone have that old cartoon of a porcupine with a balloon? There are onlooking porcupines who say “this won’t last long.”
‘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.
Much cheaper to hire an airplane ... he can get a lot higher than 1800 feet that way.
” Shortly after the launch, the only thing that will be flat is this flat earther’s head.”
A commercial airline flight will accomplish that.
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.
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.
HIC SVNT DRACONES!
Update the map!
If the Earth was flat, cats would have already knocked everything over the edge.
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.
Odungo got his....
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