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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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He can’t just look at the NASA channel like the rest of us?
I think they are just allowing more youtubers to get to the launch site. I can’t wait to see him hand his beer to his launch engineer and say, “Hey Ya’all... Watch this.”
Please tell me this guy isn’t serious?
He oughta just use weather balloons and a lawn chair, no rocket needed.
‘Ol Larry Walters did it back in the 1980s and got up to 16,000 feet, much to the surprise of the airline pilots who saw him bobbing around near LAX.
Only 1800ft?? Why doest he just get on a cessna?
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Some men live their dreams, it seems.
I hate to be dense but how does that prove the Earth is flat, if he was only going to 1800 ft? I climb hills higher than 1800 ft.
Darwin Award temporarily postponed.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yup. His can gets kicked up to 20 Gs on launch and he becomes like a bug smeared on the windshield.
Whaaat? The WAPO is taking a break from attacking Trump to report some real important scientific stuff. Doh!
I don’t believe the Earth is flat but for some reason it doesn’t anger me that other people do. Some people seem to get really mad that these people believe that. What do I care?
Let him launch, he’ll be history a few minutes after.
Or he cannot simply launch a camera on a balloon?
Lots of people are doing that.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/how-to/a6568/how-to-launch-a-camera-into-space/
Apparently I don’t find genocide as funny as you do.
Heck he could just get an inexpensive round-trip fare to anywhere and could go up a few miles. Apparently this guy has never been in an airplane before or he would know the world is not flat ... and yet he wants to go up in a self-designed rocket? ha ha ha
This reminds me, I watched The Wizard of Oz again this week - the Wicked Witch of the West could probably outdo this flat-Earth guy.
I wonder if he has a parachute with it?
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