I hope He got a
Good Book Deal.
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“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 ...
intent on proving that the Earth is flat.
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
He proved the earth won’t be flat where he impacted.
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.
With all the meth labs out there blowing up, surprise anyone noticed this.......
Anyone that has spent any time in Barsotw knows what an armpit it is. Bikers and drug makers.
Looked more like he shot himself out of a cannon than a rocket launch. And he went all splatty anyhow.
It happens.
Looked more like he shot himself out of a cannon than a rocket launch. And he went all splatty anyhow.
It happens.
Friend of mine introduced me to an app named Flipboard. Still not sure if I like it or not. Has various links with headers of Politics, Crime, Aviation, News, plus several others. The user selects which ones. For some unknown reason this story is under the header of Comedy.
Not sure if he ever got high enough to see that the Earth isn’t flat, but he certainly learned, quite literally the hard way, that gravity (something else he didn’t believe in) is in fact very real.
Where were all the protesters trying to save him from himself? Wasn’t there even one? I thought there were all kinds of nuts showing up to his events. The creeps got what they were there for.
Winner winner chicken dinner! Congrats to “Madd Mike” and his undisputed early win of the 2020 Darwin Award. He left this world in the form that he saw it ;-)
