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This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
Washington Post ^ | 11/21/17 | Avi Selk

Posted on 11/21/2017 1:54:10 PM PST by Blue House Sue

Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.

Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program.

Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above the Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof of the disc we all live on.

“It’ll shut the door on this ball earth,” Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday’s flight. Theories discussed during the interview included NASA being controlled by round-Earth Freemasons and Elon Musk making fake rockets from blimps.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: australia; battlestarmoronica; california; flatearth; flatearther; flatearthliars; flatearthmorons; madmikehughes; mentalillness; mikehughes
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To: NorthMountain

Well huh. Stupidity knows no bounds. So they’re saying all those planets out there are flat disks also?


61 posted on 11/21/2017 2:24:32 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Gotta give the guy credit. He pretty much knows he is going to turn into soup the minute his rocket hits the ground and yet he still wants to get in it, light the candle and see how high he can go...... to see if mother erf is flat.

I bet when someone asks him, “what kind of idiot would do this?” he has no answer.


62 posted on 11/21/2017 2:24:52 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (BANNON YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!)
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To: Blue House Sue

I have observational evidence that the world is not flat. If the world was flat, cats would have knocked everything over the edge by now.


63 posted on 11/21/2017 2:27:33 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Paladin2

http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html


64 posted on 11/21/2017 2:27:55 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: zaxtres

He’s not eligible. At his age, he’s probably already reproduced.


65 posted on 11/21/2017 2:28:55 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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To: xrmusn

Ah, I probably got this idea by reading your tagline some time. But I left off the “by now” part. Next time I steal this saying, I’ll say, “by meow” to keep in the good humor of Super Troopers ‘cat game’.

Oh, do you know why the flat earthers never just drive to the edge? Because they always get sidetracked by a Sasquatch sighting!


66 posted on 11/21/2017 2:29:04 PM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: SkyDancer
So they’re saying all those planets out there are flat disks also?

Pretty sure "no". I'm not quite certain what they think Moon, Mars, Venus, etc. actually are. Didn't really get that far. But we have never visited any of them, either with robotic or manned spacecraft. Because you can't get past the firmament, in which they're set.

67 posted on 11/21/2017 2:29:06 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Blue House Sue
A homeade rocket? Don't be a fool, man. Go with Acme. They are the best.

Image result for acme rocket

68 posted on 11/21/2017 2:29:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Blue House Sue

Beat me to it ... the only this flat is this idiots head


69 posted on 11/21/2017 2:29:16 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: zaxtres
> Do we have to wait to give him the Darwin Award?

Far too late. He's 61, if he was gonna reproduce, he likely did so decades ago.

70 posted on 11/21/2017 2:30:07 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Doogle

Hillary’s 2020 campaign plane.


71 posted on 11/21/2017 2:30:43 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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To: Blue House Sue

guy had his brain stem removed?

What is a round-Earth Freemasons???


72 posted on 11/21/2017 2:33:39 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: NorthMountain

Larry Walters in his lawn chair and weather balloons got higher and farther.

My son is an aerospace engineering student. He’s coming home tonight. Can’t wait to get his reaction to this guy.


73 posted on 11/21/2017 2:33:41 PM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Blue House Sue

If he manages to take off without being vaporized, the end of his flight will demonstrate that the Earth is hard.


74 posted on 11/21/2017 2:35:32 PM PST by katana
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To: Blue House Sue

0 to 500 mph in 1800 feet is gonna stress him just a little


75 posted on 11/21/2017 2:35:57 PM PST by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God)
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To: zaxtres

Yes.

The rules are written in stone....


76 posted on 11/21/2017 2:36:19 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: SparkyBass
Nope.


77 posted on 11/21/2017 2:36:31 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Blue House Sue

Just another Washington comPost employee.


78 posted on 11/21/2017 2:36:41 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Blue House Sue
“It’ll shut the door on this ball earth,” Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday’s flight.

I'm sorry, did you say fundraising as in dopes giving you money for this? Well I suppose Kyrie Irving has to spend his millions on something other than life-size dartboards of LeBron.

79 posted on 11/21/2017 2:36:59 PM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Blue House Sue
His final words, "Hey! The earth!" SPLAT. (not flat)


80 posted on 11/21/2017 2:37:30 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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