Posted on 11/24/2017 6:38:33 PM PST by Simon Green
A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet high Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket — in an effort to prove that Earth is flat — said he is postponing the experiment after he couldn't get permission from a federal agency to conduct it on public land.
Instead, Mike Hughes said the launch will take place sometime next week on private property, albeit still in Amboy, Calif., an unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert along historic Route 66.
“It's still happening. We're just moving it three miles down the road,” Hughes told The Washington Post on Friday. “This is what happens anytime you have to deal with any kind of government agency.”
Hughes claimed the Bureau of Land Management said he couldn't launch his rocket as planned Saturday in Amboy. He claimed the federal agency had given him verbal permission more than a year ago, pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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At his age, I imagine he’s already dipped into the gene pool. If the story I read was accurate that his ‘ship’ is steam powered, I don’t see him getting more than ten feet from the launch pad.
A shame no one was able to convince this dum dum of the fact that 1800 feet is too low to observe the earth’s curvature, let alone prove the earth is flat. On the upside, his subscription to “Modern Luddites” was just automatically renewed for life.
I’m totally on board with this, tell me when and where, I got lawn chairs and a cooler full of beer.
Paraphrasing Rack Jite-—
“I can understand flat-earther’s benighted, ignorant disregard for physics, it’s their pride in it that passes me by.”
GEEEZZ You Mean He's Trying To Kill A Whole Nation With His Ill Conceived Contraption??
You Have Inside info I take it!
That might also be called “sanity” —if he had any.
Push the button, Max ...
Surrender, Dorothy!
Why not simply charter an airplane or buy any airline ticket going anywhere.
I figured he associated the Darwin fish with abortion or something...
A Blake Edwards classic. Push the button, Max!
The Priest of the Balloon
His training for the stunt included jungle survival and mountain climbing courses,
but apparently did not include instruction on use of his GPS - in a telephone call he made during the flight, he stated that if someone could just explain how to use his GPS he could relay his position to rescuers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelir_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Carli
No, I was talking of your use of the ichthys symbol. It was used by Christians when the Roman Empire was trying to exterminate them.
The Trump administration is against the acquisition of scientific knowledge?! Even the Roman Catholic Church now supports astronomical observations and discoveries
Since he's willing to settle for an altitude of only 1,800 feet, that's well within Estes model rocket territory. Just put a camera in the nose cone.
The last remaining man on earth who has not seen a sphere.
IF you had clicked the pic you would hear the audio and know it is an insult to Darwin!
NOTE: It Is Not Good To Drink And Post. Maybe You Should Put The Drink Down.
I can write a short version of the event right now: BOOM. Shrieks. Fire. Splat. Debris and DNA everywhere. Sirens. Cleanup. Helluva show.
Yes, but his goal it to prove the Earth is flat. If he goes higher than 1800 ft., he will fail , so why go further than 1800 ft. ?
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