Flat Earther Launches Himself in Rocket - Survives

[Forensicator 0]

I think he is just taking advantage of Flat Earth morons to fund his personal rocket hobby, but he definitely has some balls.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/03/25/an-amateur-rocket-maker-finally-launched-himself-off-earth-now-to-prove-its-flat/?utm_term=.fd39d05d03f3

 

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Mike Hughes, a California man who is most known for his belief that the Earth is shaped like a frisbee, finally blasted off into the sky in a steam-powered rocket he had built himself.

The 61-year-old limo driver and daredevil-turned-rocket-maker soared about 1,875 feet above the Mojave Desert on Saturday afternoon, the Associated Press reported. Hughes’s white-and-green rocket, bearing the words “FLAT EARTH,” propelled vertically about 3 p.m. Pacific time and reached a speed of about 350 mph, Waldo Stakes, who has been helping Hughes, told the AP. Hughes deployed two parachutes while landing, the second one just moments before he plopped down not far from his launching point.

A video shows that the whole endeavor, from the moment his rocket went up to the moment he landed, lasted about a minute.

 

 

[Newdoc 3448]

“A video shows that the whole endeavor, from the moment his rocket went up to the moment he landed, lasted about a minute.”

hmmm, sounds like he has a rocket problem. May need to try thinking about baseball.

[Call 393]

Dirtbike needs to meet Mike.

[SquishMitten 10415]

Got up to 350 MPH and only stayed up for a minute. That must've been a hell of a necksnapper.

[DocZaius 65]

Videos:

 

 

 

[DocZaius 65]

 

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

So......is the Earth flat or what?

 

[TexasFootball18 48]

I've gone almost as fast on a motorcycle, and got higher up a mountain than he did 'flying' to see the curvature of the earth. 

 

pathetic loser. 

[po elvis 2075]

Couldn't he just buy a plane ticket?

[Duke Silver 191]

[TexasFootball18 48]

9 minutes ago, po elvis said:

Couldn't he just buy a plane ticket?

too logical for a flat earther

 

some of them think that isn't a window but a projected image you see 

[Chuychanga 133]

1875 feet eh?  Excellent use of resources there Hawking. Could’ve rented a Cessna 150 for $100 and gotten 4 or 5x higher for an hour. 

[phdhorn 6224]

26 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

So......is the Earth flat or what?

 

Yeah, see, because he went up, and he came back down.  If the earth were spherical, he would never have come down.

I wish the earth was spherical.

[AeroHorn 752]

There is a good chance that the "flat earth" messaging is just an excuse to keep his steampunk hobby in the news. It must be pretty gratifying to him to have national news covering his antics, which otherwise would have been completely unknown.

If that's true, I am impressed with his backyard engineering, and more so with putting himself in an elaborate firecracker.

 

[miguelito 11266]

I'm surprised he didn't die.

[Call 393]

I kind of wish he did make himself a Darwin Award winner.

[TexasFootball18 48]

5 hours ago, AeroHorn said:

There is a good chance that the "flat earth" messaging is just an excuse to keep his steampunk hobby in the news. It must be pretty gratifying to him to have national news covering his antics, which otherwise would have been completely unknown.

If that's true, I am impressed with his backyard engineering, and more so with putting himself in an elaborate firecracker.

 

not a firecracker, he uses steam. He's made a human sized airhog rocket

[BurntOrange&White 39934]

Theoretically if the earth was flat he would have landed where he launched from, right?

[TexasFootball18 48]

2 minutes ago, Bevo VIII said:

Theoretically if the earth was flat he would have landed where he launched from, right?

That could be a deep answer. If the world were flat would we have gravity? would we be here at all or just float about in space? Would space exist?

 

Flat earth just makes no sense at all

[MadBurgerMaker 404]

He's still alive?  What the fuck...

[Homercles 10206]

Landthieves refugees with too much time on their hands 

[The People’s Elbow 707]

5 hours ago, miguelito said:

I'm surprised he didn't die.

Surprised? No. 

Disappointed? Yes. 

[Bigbend1812 12927]

15 hours ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

So......is the Earth flat or what?

 

Well?......we’re waiting!

[SameSame 1705]

I think he should try it again.  More research needed.

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

Damn! I bet he flew 50 yards!

 

[jofus 2266]

22 hours ago, miguelito said:

I'm surprised he didn't die.

Glad he didn’t. He’ll continue to provide lulz as long as he lives. 

[Armybrat 40850]

Next Director of NASA?