Posted on 02/23/2020 10:50:15 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Daredevil and Flat Earth theorist Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes died Saturday in a rocket crash. Hughes, 64, wanted to prove the Flat Earth theory by taking photographs of the Earth from a homemade rocket.
Saturday's rocket launch was to be featured on the Science Channel, which was chronicling Hughes' attempts to launch himself high enough in a homemade rocket to take pictures of the curvature — or lack thereof as far as Hughes was concerned — of the Earth. This particular launch was only supposed to take Hughes 5,000 feet in the air, according to Discovery.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes' family and friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey," Science Channel said in a statement.
Although police did not positively identify Hughes, San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Public Information Officer Cindy Bachman said Saturday in a statement, "A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event. Medical aid was staged for the launch and was on scene immediately."
Hughes had previously completed a successful launch in March 2018, which sent him 1,800 feet in the air.
"The Flat Earth thing is like everything else to me," Hughes told CBS News in October 2018. "I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11."
At the time, Hughes stated that he built his homemade rocket mostly through, "trial and error," and admitted, "You don't get a lot of second chances, though, in the rocket business."
I didn’t mean to stoop to namecalling, the very thing I don’t like.
Cognitive Dissonance affects people in different ways, so I should be more sympathetic. I found out about FE inadvertently a year ago. I would never have delved as deeply as I have without that initial nudge on what I thought was an unrelated subject. Very liberating.
But, NO SANTA CLAUS!!! Don’t gaslight me, Bro.
Sorry about that, but some bubbles just have to be burst at some time. LOL
I was just thinking about Auguste Piccard and his hot air balloon research that took him up 10 miles into the stratosphere back in 1931. Wish I had $400 to spare for the Popular Science magazine (available on Ebay) that describes what Piccard saw regarding his observation on the earth’s shape: “rather like a flat disc with an upturned edge.” Whether he said any more than that in his personal writings, we’ll probably never know - Piccard’s grandson is in charge of GRamp’s papers and is not a fan of FE researchers using Gramp’s own words to support questioning the Narrative. I copied the entire Piccard Wikipedia entry last summer, but now that quote is gone, deleted, down the Gaslighting hole.
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