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."
WELL, he was wrong about his rocket but he was right about the flat earth
this whole “earth is round” BS is a United Nations/EU plot, hatched by their secret agent Eratosthenes in Syene, a city south of Alexandria, on 19 June, 240 BCE. The plan is to tax half of the working class for government protection against falling off from the bottom side, and then to flip the whole thing over and tax the other half of the working class for the same “free entitlement.” Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont, Communist) will be in charge of confiscating your wealth and Congressman Henry Calvin Johnson Jr. (Democrat, Georgia’s 4th district) will be in charge of the flipping
Now, poor Michael is as flat as he supposed the Earth was...
Sad for his family, but what a dumbass.
I must say, I am enjoying the comments. Very Funny!
What was the speed at the end of his trajectory.
Weren't there any smallish mountains in his neighborhood that he could have climbed, instead?
Heck, a good-sized hill would have been high enough!
Regards,
Welp
“everyone that has seen a satellite”
These flat earthers probably think satellites just bounce back and forth like the Pong arcade game.
He didn’t prove that the earth was flat, but he DID learn how to make applesauce!
These flat earthers have answers to everything, even when you can prove their answer wrong. A guy I know believes the government has planes leave chem-trails to could the sky and control the weather and swears they use a “sun-simulator” to project what we rubes THINK is the sun in our sky...
I’m sure he believes that tides are operated by the government as well..
My kid is an actual degreed rocket engineer who works at NASA.
He said Mad Mike saw too much and got taken out.
OK, I’ll bite. Suppose he is correct and the world is flat. Then what is underneath it?
Adam Schiff announced at a “news” conference that the Russians interfered with the launch to ensure that the truth about the shape of the earth does not come out
Looks like he fell for about 10 seconds, so roughly 100 mph. Enough to squash him.
Check that about 220 mph.
It’d be funny if he noticed the curvature this time.
homemade rocket
Those two words don’t go together.
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