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WATCH: Flat-Earther Rocketeer ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes Finally Blasts Off Into California Sky
tech times ^
 | 25 March 2018
 | Allan Adamson
Posted on 03/25/2018 6:52:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The rocketeer launched himself about 1,875 feet into the air on Saturday, March 24, aboard his Liberty One rocket before he landed in the Mojave Desert. 
Hughes sustained some bruises and had a minor back injury from the hard landing. His steam-powered rocket was also damaged but he came down in one piece. It was also finally mission accomplished after two failed attempts. 
"I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket," he said. I manned up and did it."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; UFO's
KEYWORDS: battlestarmoronica; california; flat; flatearth; flatearthliars; flatearthmorons; madmikehughes; mentalillness; mikehughes
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    No word on the curvature?
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posted on 
03/25/2018 6:52:22 AM PDT
by 
DUMBGRUNT
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Steam powered rocket???
A steampunk flat earther! That’s a first!
 
2
posted on 
03/25/2018 6:57:00 AM PDT
by 
Reily
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    I want an Interview with the
Man who held His Beer!
 
3
posted on 
03/25/2018 6:57:36 AM PDT
by 
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    He didn’t get any higher than a commercial jet flight.
And no word on what he thought of what he saw.
 
4
posted on 
03/25/2018 6:58:24 AM PDT
by 
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Earth is not flat.
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    1,875 feet. Couldn’t he just fly a Cessna 172 to 10,000 feet?
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:00:16 AM PDT
by 
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Worked pretty good. Seems that he’d have been better off by just going to the edge of the earth so he could fly right off and take pics of the other side /s
Dumbass kids not paying any attention...
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:01:42 AM PDT
by 
bigbob
(Trust Trump.  Trust Sessions.   The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Steam powered rocket? The guy basically built a water rocket big enough to ride. Wild. 
 
To: plain talk
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:02:03 AM PDT
by 
bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
 
To: \/\/ayne
    Short hop flights are seldom worth the effort.
Parking, early check-in, the TSA, lost/delayed bags...
 
10
posted on 
03/25/2018 7:03:56 AM PDT
by 
DUMBGRUNT
(This Space for Rent)
 
To: bankwalker
    Did he stay at a Holiday Inn the night before his flight?
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:04:58 AM PDT
by 
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
 
To: bigbob
    ‘...and take pics of the other side “
But it is dark on the back side, not enough light, even with Tri-X (pushed?)
 
12
posted on 
03/25/2018 7:06:49 AM PDT
by 
DUMBGRUNT
(This Space for Rent)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Only thing missing was the roadrunner...meep meep...
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:08:28 AM PDT
by 
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
 
To: Flick Lives
    Long ago, the wild and crazy Arfons Brothers built a steam-powered drag car.
I once met the driver, Bob Tahoe(?), he said it turned turtle at high speed, while he was driving.
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:15:45 AM PDT
by 
DUMBGRUNT
(This Space for Rent)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    I don’t think he was really a flat earther. He just used it to get publicity for his project and funds from the flat-earthers.
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Wacky...but I gotta give him his proper dues for his selfmade success..early automobiles were steam powered but boiler container weakness spelled their doom...maybe his construction techniques could be used to build a safe..efficient steam car...
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:22:46 AM PDT
by 
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
 
To: bigbob
    There is no edge to the earth. If there were, every cat would be there knocking stuff off.
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:26:17 AM PDT
by 
KarlInOhio
(I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    discovered flat earth alright 
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:29:32 AM PDT
by 
Godzilla
( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
 
To: Godzilla
To: DUMBGRUNT
    1875 feet? That’s not even a half-mile!!! I could launch an Estes model rocket higher than that back in the early 70’s....
 
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posted on 
03/25/2018 7:57:09 AM PDT
by 
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
 
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