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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Well huh. Stupidity knows no bounds. So they’re saying all those planets out there are flat disks also?
Gotta give the guy credit. He pretty much knows he is going to turn into soup the minute his rocket hits the ground and yet he still wants to get in it, light the candle and see how high he can go...... to see if mother erf is flat.
I bet when someone asks him, “what kind of idiot would do this?” he has no answer.
I have observational evidence that the world is not flat. If the world was flat, cats would have knocked everything over the edge by now.
He’s not eligible. At his age, he’s probably already reproduced.
Ah, I probably got this idea by reading your tagline some time. But I left off the “by now” part. Next time I steal this saying, I’ll say, “by meow” to keep in the good humor of Super Troopers ‘cat game’.
Oh, do you know why the flat earthers never just drive to the edge? Because they always get sidetracked by a Sasquatch sighting!
Pretty sure "no". I'm not quite certain what they think Moon, Mars, Venus, etc. actually are. Didn't really get that far. But we have never visited any of them, either with robotic or manned spacecraft. Because you can't get past the firmament, in which they're set.
Beat me to it ... the only this flat is this idiots head
Far too late. He's 61, if he was gonna reproduce, he likely did so decades ago.
Hillary’s 2020 campaign plane.
guy had his brain stem removed?
What is a round-Earth Freemasons???
Larry Walters in his lawn chair and weather balloons got higher and farther.
My son is an aerospace engineering student. He’s coming home tonight. Can’t wait to get his reaction to this guy.
If he manages to take off without being vaporized, the end of his flight will demonstrate that the Earth is hard.
0 to 500 mph in 1800 feet is gonna stress him just a little
Yes.
The rules are written in stone....
Just another Washington comPost employee.
I'm sorry, did you say fundraising as in dopes giving you money for this? Well I suppose Kyrie Irving has to spend his millions on something other than life-size dartboards of LeBron.
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