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Man Killed in ‘Rocket Crash’ in Desert in Barstow [CA]
ktla ^ | 02/22/2020

Posted on 02/22/2020 6:58:34 PM PST by BenLurkin

A man died in what authorities described as a rocket crash in the desert in Barstow on Saturday afternoon.

The deadly crash was reported just before 2 p.m. on a private property along Highway 247, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a written statement. "A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event," the statement said. Medical help was already on-site, but the pilot could not be saved.

Authorities did not identity the pilot pending positive identification by coroner's officials. Witnesses and news reports indicted the launch was an event hosted by local daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes, an amateur rocket builder intent on proving that the Earth is flat.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: australia; california; darwinaward; flatearth; flatearther; flatmikesociety; madmikehughes; michaelhughes; mikehughes; rocket; science
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

“JATO car?”

LMBO the first time I heard that story on the old G. Gordon Liddy radio show.


41 posted on 02/22/2020 7:58:49 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lots of free-spirited desert rats live out there in the remote Mojave. This is one of them.


42 posted on 02/22/2020 7:59:46 PM PST by bkopto
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To: BenLurkin
Regarded people shouldn’t fly


43 posted on 02/22/2020 8:02:30 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: cloudmountain
We lived in Barstow for a year...some years ago. It had military, Pacific Gas & Electric and trains. That's it.

And as I recall from a visit to Barstow a number of years ago, the World's largest McDonald's restaurant.

44 posted on 02/22/2020 8:03:11 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Magnum44

Damn spell check ruining my joke. Retarded. Retarded. Not regarded.


45 posted on 02/22/2020 8:04:28 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: BenLurkin
local daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes, an amateur rocket builder intent on proving that the Earth is flat.

He didn't prove the Earth is flat, but that he is flat.

46 posted on 02/22/2020 8:10:35 PM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: BenLurkin

I hope He got a
Good Book Deal.
.


47 posted on 02/22/2020 8:28:58 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Inyo-Mono

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive....” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.”


48 posted on 02/22/2020 8:28:58 PM PST by CTyank
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To: BenLurkin

“the launch was an event hosted by local daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes, an amateur rocket builder intent on proving that the Earth is flat.”

i’m assuming that the fatal crash means that the Earth is NOT flat ...


49 posted on 02/22/2020 8:31:20 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BenLurkin

intent on proving that the Earth is flat.


and the conclusion is?


50 posted on 02/22/2020 8:33:48 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: CTyank

LOL! Is that Hunter S. Thompson?


51 posted on 02/22/2020 8:35:03 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: BenLurkin

Wow ! I know Apple Valley has some serious fixtures but this guy really takes the cake

Rest in peace crazy dude


52 posted on 02/22/2020 9:12:03 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: BenLurkin

Met and hung out with “Mad Mike” a year or two ago. Yep, pretty crazy. A couple of other launches damn near killed him. He was launching in Amboy, CA then and the BLM was pestering him. I always knew that one day he’d auger in.

Sad that he’s gone, would call him an acquaintance rather than a friend. We actually made him an honorary Clamper (ECV), so I have to say that he’s a Brother gone to the Golden Hills.

R.I.P. Brother


53 posted on 02/22/2020 9:27:58 PM PST by FlyFisher
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To: FlyFisher

Oh, and by the way, he was a candidate for Governor of California. Probably better than the a-hole we have now.


54 posted on 02/22/2020 9:37:04 PM PST by FlyFisher
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To: dfwgator
So, did he prove it?

Turns out the earth was.... splat.

55 posted on 02/22/2020 9:37:32 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: BenLurkin

He proved the earth won’t be flat where he impacted.


56 posted on 02/22/2020 9:42:45 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: dfwgator
"So, did he prove it?"

yeap. he's flat

57 posted on 02/22/2020 9:43:08 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

And somewhere on the exact other side of the world, someone tripped over a bump that appeared from nowhere.


58 posted on 02/22/2020 9:46:04 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin

Very sad. The guy was a nice, disabled person with an IQ of maybe 80. He lacked proper parachutes and proper tools. He did not know that in 1960 the engineers from North American were experimenting with both parachutes and hang gliders at Edwards Air Force Base in order to bring the Command Module back to earth.
Someone should have intervened or taken the keys or disabled the engine.
He did not know that Pythagorus in 500 BC knew the earth was round by watching eclipses, the Apollo rockets were locomotives designed like a Swiss watch, and the Space Shuttle is the best machine ever built.
Moral of the story: please don’t get killed by dumbness.


59 posted on 02/22/2020 9:49:33 PM PST by Falconspeed
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To: dfwgator

Mad Mike is flat. Or maybe pieces.


60 posted on 02/22/2020 9:53:09 PM PST by griffin
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