March 25, 20187 yr 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 Quote 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.
March 25, 20187 yr “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.
March 26, 20187 yr Got up to 350 MPH and only stayed up for a minute. That must've been a hell of a necksnapper.
March 26, 20187 yr 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.
March 26, 20187 yr 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
March 26, 20187 yr 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.
March 26, 20187 yr 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.
March 26, 20187 yr 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.
March 27, 20187 yr 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
March 27, 20187 yr Theoretically if the earth was flat he would have landed where he launched from, right?
March 27, 20187 yr 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
March 27, 20187 yr 5 hours ago, miguelito said: I'm surprised he didn't die. Surprised? No. Disappointed? Yes.
March 27, 20187 yr 15 hours ago, SmokeyTheBear said: So......is the Earth flat or what? Well?......we’re waiting!
March 28, 20187 yr 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.
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