Posted on 11/25/2017 8:11:55 PM PST by MtnClimber
A California man’s quest to prove the Earth is flat will begin sometime next week when he plans to launch himself 1,800 feet in the air in a homemade scrap-metal rocket.
“Mad” Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver who describes himself as a “self taught-rocket scientist,” has spent the past few years constructing a homemade rocket from scrap parts.
His ultimate goal is to fly 10 miles above ground to prove the Earth is flat and disk-shaped.
Hughes has invested $20,000 into constructing the rocket, which he hopes will travel at roughly 500 mph. Hughes’ initial plan was to launch his rocket Saturday over the ghost town of Amboy, California. However, he was forced to relocate after the Bureau of Land Management caught wind of the planned stunt.
“Someone from our local office reached out to him after seeing some of these news articles (about the launch), because that was news to them,” BLM spokeswoman Samantha Storms told The Washington Post.
Not one to be constrained by a government bureaucracy, Hughes told The Post he would be launching his rocket sometime in the next week on private property near Amboy.
“It’s still happening. We’re just moving it three miles down the road,” Hughes said. “This is what happens anytime you have to deal with any kind of government agency.” The rocket’s main sponsor is Research Flat Earth.
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Is his name Bang Boom Ow?
“It’s still happening. We’re just moving it three miles down the road,” Hughes said. “This is what happens anytime you have to deal with any kind of government agency.”
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This is one case where government isn’t the problem.
Anybody that thinks the earth is flat needs to be in a strait jacket,
Not a rocket.
More like Bang Boom Rest In Peace.
I don’t want to hear any leftard scum laughing at this guy; not while they’re still pushing that climate change idiocy.
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Why not a balloon with a camera?
The inevitable result of protecting people from their own foolishness is a world filled with idiots.
Limo driving: It isn’t rocket science.
We Tu Lo.
How many times can this be posted? The man is a fool—’nuff said—please!
Global warming could cause a flat earth to warp and appear curved. At some time it could curve so much that we all fall off.
The Washington Post, USAtoday, and London Telegraph report that his engine is steam-powered. If it really is, I predict he won’t get more than ten feet from his launcher.
At the end of his ride, he will find earth to be quite flat-like,
Sum Dum Boi
I bet you he will say he is a registered Republican who does not believe in Global Climate Change.
>Why not a balloon with a camera?
Too scientific
It will surely be hard.
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