General / Off-Topic Rocket launch will prove Earth is flat, California man says...

[Sir.Tj]

Wow...

A California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a home-built rocket to prove that astronauts faked the shape of the Earth.
Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, said his stunt will be the first phase of the flat-Earth space program, sponsored by Research Flat Earth, a group that believes Earth is, well, flat.
The rocket should travel about a mile at a speed of roughly 500 mph.

Link.

 

[StiTch]

Good luck to the man; I hear we're supposed to encourage the mentally challenged these days.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

I see this ending well..!

 

[Frank]

I hope the ending to this story isn't too sad. It has the potential to go disastrously wrong.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Be careful Mike!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/member.php/27910-Mad-Mike

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

The competition for the Darwin Awards gets fiercer each year.

Also, there is plenty of talk about launching, but I've seen nothing about landing. Hopefully this is down to the reporting and not a horrible oversight.

 

[Winterwalker]

The rocket should travel about a mile ... (hehe)

God Speed Mike!

 

[dayrth]

The competition for the Darwin Awards gets fiercer each year.

Also, there is plenty of talk about launching, but I've seen nothing about landing. Hopefully this is down to the reporting and not a horrible oversight.

He won't need to land. He's going to fly over the edge.

 

[verminstar]

I love americans...so cuddly and cute...ye really couldnt make this stuff up anywhere else and yet its normal over there...I wish I was american...those guys really do provide the world with a laugh a day at their antics. I wish I could own one and bring it out at parties to amuse everyone ^

 

[GreyAreaUK]

So, he's expecting to go a mile. Presumably straight up.

1 mile is 5,280ft. Angels 5 isn't that high.

He could charter a private aircraft and be flown much higher than that for (I'd guess) a fraction of the cost.

 

[Whitehair]

It's steam powered and he expects to travel a mile, distance not height.

Also I found a youtube video by Flat Earthers claiming that he only has that 'Flat Earth Research' logo painted on the rocket for the sponsor money!

 

[rootsrat]

He should be careful and watch for a certain Twoflower trying to sabotage this...

 

[Sir.Tj]

He should be careful and watch for a certain Twoflower trying to sabotage this...

i was going to make a similar reference.

 

[verminstar]

He should be careful and watch for a certain Twoflower trying to sabotage this...

The idea behind being careful and launching oneself into the sky in a steam powered rocket doesnt really make fer common sense. Its not proof he needs, its a straightjacket and meds ^

 

[Chris Simon]

You know what's really sad? IF he manages to launch and IF he manages to survive, from 500m? He will confirm that Earth is, indeed, flat.

 

[Winterwalker]

Its not proof he needs, its a straightjacket and meds ^

MadMikeHughes.com? I think maybe someone already tried (and failed) to install docking clamps on Mike's ambitions. The fools!

“Far be it from me to let common sense get in the way of stupidity. I say we press on.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity

 

[verminstar]

MadMikeHughes.com? I think maybe someone already tried (and failed) to install docking clamps on Mike's ambitions. The fools!

“Far be it from me to let common sense get in the way of stupidity. I say we press on.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity

Oh Im all fer stupidity...its like watching cats do dumb things on youtube...ye know its dumb but ye cant help but laugh anyway...long live dumbness I say...entertaining the free world since the dawn of the stone age.

Ye know its weird when ye start thinking ye might be more normal and saner than normal sane people...

Nurse? Its time fer my bleach enima...the miracle cure fer autism apparently...same origins ironically enough ^

 

[Deleted member 110222]

RIP.

 

[Rob At Work]

Do people actually still believe that the Earth is round then?

 

[MarktJones]

Do people actually still believe that the Earth is round then?

It's a doughnut.