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Rocket launch will prove Earth is flat, California man says
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| November 22, 2017
| By Lukas Mikelionis
Posted on 11/23/2017 4:54:27 PM PST by sparklite2
A California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a home-built rocket to prove that astronauts faked the shape of the Earth.
Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, said his stunt will be the first phase of the flat-Earth space program, sponsored by Research Flat Earth, a group that believes Earth is, well, flat.
He claims to have built the steam-powered rocket out of scrap metal parts in his garage. The project cost around $20,000, including the purchase of a motor home off Craigslist that was converted into a ramp.
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TOPICS: Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: australia; battlestarmoronica; california; flatearth; flatearther; flatearthers; flatearthliars; flatearthmorons; lofan; madmikehughes; mentalillness; mikehughes
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To: TangoLimaSierra
My mistake I thought those were continents on the surface of the hemisphere and not clouds. I wonder how thick “flat earther’s” think the world is and is it uniform thickness?
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:07:10 PM PST
by
Reily
To: sparklite2
My insurance agent told me, “NO! You can’t buy a huge life insurance policy on Mike Hughes. He is a registered retard”.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:16:21 PM PST
by
Mark
(Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
To: sparklite2
There was a time when people like this were called "exhibitionists."
If they became too extreme, or dangerous to themselves or others, they could be confined involuntarily in an asylum.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:21:24 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: sparklite2
Moonbeam is going to launch a rocket?
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:22:17 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
To: pigsmith
Bonneville Salt flats, the cars drop below the horizon.
About six feet at three miles.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:35:20 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
(This Space for Rent)
To: sparklite2
“A California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a home-built rocket to prove that astronauts faked the shape of the Earth.”
I’d be much easier (and safer) to just drive up to the top of Pikes Peak.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:40:56 PM PST
by
catnipman
( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
That is easily explained: what you’re seeing is a slight rise in the distance that always keeps the same distance from you, no matter how fast you go. /sarc
To: sparklite2
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:41:24 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: sparklite2
I wonder if any of the Vegas books are taking bets on this. I’d be willing to put a few bucks on the only thing coming out flat will be this guy.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:45:09 PM PST
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: sparklite2
The earth looks round because our eyes are round.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:45:22 PM PST
by
bunkerhill7
((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
To: catnipman
Id be much easier (and safer) to just drive up to the top of Pikes Peak.Or, rent a Cessna 150...
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:46:55 PM PST
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The first time I was ever on the sidelines of a football field, in this case at Texas stadium, I was surprised at high a crown the field had. I couldn’t see anything below the waste of people on the opposite side.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:47:33 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
To: onedoug
That’s going to be the name of his deep diving submarine.
To: sparklite2
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:49:21 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
To: sparklite2
I distinctly remember that Evil Knievel had passed away.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:50:09 PM PST
by
mazda77
To: Stormdog
If his rocket is truly steam-driven, I don’t think he’ll get more than ten feet from his launch pad.
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:51:02 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
To: catnipman
"Id be much easier (and safer) to just drive up to the top of Pikes Peak."
But not nearly as much fun. It's people like this that make the world go round... errr... go flat?
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:52:05 PM PST
by
Garth Tater
(Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
To: sparklite2
“If his rocket is truly steam-driven, I dont think hell get more than ten feet from his launch pad.”
Then I’m counting on the rocket squishing him!
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:54:41 PM PST
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: sparklite2
Why not helium balloons and a lawn chair?
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posted on
11/23/2017 6:55:30 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
To: sparklite2
A California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a home-built rocket to prove that astronauts faked the shape of the Earth.
It shouldn't take a rocket flight to understand that the Earth most be a sphere, but whatever. As long as his stunt doesn't get someone else killed, it's his life and his money - spend or end them however he sees fit.
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