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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His rocket is named “The Petard.”
Somewhere on youtube I saw a video of just that - amazing footage.
Of course he is trolling.
I believe Mike Hughs will be flat, soon enough.
In a steam-powered rocket.
He should just install pedals.
Both he and the earth will be flat when he crashed back into it. Perhaps, in death, he will be right for the first and last time in his life.
News headline: Giant spatula needed in California desert. Flat-Earth believer flattened by flat ground when he crashed onto it.
Second lead (lede) story: “Francisco Franco and Helen Thomas are still dead”.
Your eyeballs are curved, so that makes the flat earth look curved.
Hasn’t this bozo ever flown in an airliner, say at 35,000 feet?
He can’t be serious. Do the math. Even if he somehow achieves 500 mph, he would coast much higher than 1800 ft. That doesn’t account for time and distance (vertical) for acceleration. He’s a fool with unrealistic expectations, and almost certainly doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Just think, people get in a limo with this guy and let him drive them around. In traffic.
Just think, people are driving down the road and this guy could be coming the other way.
This is a picture of the Earth's shadow cast into the sky during a sunset. It's called the "Belt of Venus" and clearly shows the curvature. If that is not good enough for this fellow perhaps he can explain the different times around the world that the sun sets.
This reminds me of nothing so much as the “directions” Mad Magazine published many years ago on how to assemble a rocket to go into orbit, built with, among other things, scavenged vacuum cleaners...
It was almost as funny as their parody on chess: “Notice that the player on the left has been dead for 2 years.”
Any relation to One Hung Lo?
I bet you could build a helicopter from a fishing reel and some geers.
Deem some fool. A statistic waiting to happen.
Same ethos as lawnchair Larry.
Will he say “hold my beer and watch this”?
Another Darwin Award entry.
rwood
That’s scary!!!
I think I recalled that incorrectly - I think it was the full size “Mad” airliner that had vacuum cleaners as engines. I don’t remember what powered the rocket...
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