Video Man tries to prove earth is flat - dies while launching a homemade rocket

[PEMM]

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A US daredevil pilot has been killed during an attempted launch of a homemade rocket in the Californian desert.

"Mad" Mike Hughes, 64, crash-landed his steam-powered rocket shortly after take-off near Barstow on Saturday.

A video on social media shows a rocket being fired into the sky before plummeting to the ground nearby.

Hughes was well-known for his belief that the Earth was flat. He hoped to prove his theory by going to space.

'Mad' Mike Hughes dies after crash-landing homemade rocket

"Mad" Mike Hughes, 64, wanted to launch himself into space to prove that the Earth was flat.

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The parachute seems to go off immediately after the launch. That was one unique way to die.

Someone said on the comments that "why not just send a weather balloon and a camera?". Obviously, you can't get reliable results by doing that.

 

[Fish&Chips]

Darwin 1 - 0 Rocket Man

 

[Jake84]

I have no idea if the Earth is flat or not but him landing there surely flattened him a bit.

 

[Telmar]

Start of conspiracy theory that the rocket was sabotaged by people who "believe" the Earth is round: 3..2....1

 

[Connaught Ranger]

So he basically sat on a water boiler as a mode of transport, should have watched mythbusters when they covered that.

 

[FLYNAVY]

RIP Rocketman. Most of my crazy ideas usually start with hold my beer & watch this. Martin-Baker makes a real good ejection seat a T-38 model would have saved your life.

 

[muck]

I'll never understand these people. I mean, this is literally the dumbest conspiracy theory out there.
Chemtrails and what have you, there's at least a question you could ask and concoct some bullshit answer: cui bono?, i.e. why would the powers that be do this. But what'd possibly be the purpose of pretending the earth isn't flat?

 

[Ivan le Fou]

The round-earth-global conspiracy sabotaged his rocket.

They knew he would learn the truth and made it public. They could not allow it to happen and silenced him.

 

[Mordoror]

Well, at least he knows that gravity is a real thing ......Science cannot be wrong every time right ?

 

[Fish&Chips]

Well, at least he knows that gravity is a real thing

Nonono. It was that gravity gun the govt is secretly testing!!11!eleventyone

 

[snowmanca]

...
Someone said on the comments that "why not just send a weather balloon and a camera?". Obviously, you can't get reliable results by doing that.

Even if it was not wanting to depend on electronics for some convoluted reason, there are high altitude balloons for people that go much higher than this style of rocket (even if it did work as intended) and should be cheaper to rent than building a rocket too. Though if it reached anything near it’s best altitude in that video, even basic small planes or standard hot air balloons can go way higher than that.

Granted if he actually had a pilots license, it seems hard to believe he was using flat earth statements as anything other than a publicity stunts

 

[muck]

By the way… he did prove the earth is round, didn't he? Or that the earth is a three-dimensional object, at the very least. A body needs to be dense to have a gravitational force of its own, and there can be no density without a geometrical centre, i.e. a point inside the body that is the furthest away from its surface. Only a multi-dimensional body has a centre of gravity.

 

[PEMM]

By the way… he did prove the earth is round, didn't he? Or that the earth is a three-dimensional object, at the very least. A body needs to be dense to have a gravitational force of its own, and there can be no density without a geometrical centre, i.e. a point inside the body that is the furthest away from its surface. Only a mult-idimensional body has a centre of gravity.

It's the enormous turtle underneath the earth disk that weighs a lot and causes gravity, you silly person.

 

[Euroamerican]

So he seems to have suffered a similar issue with the parachute that Evil Knievel did back in the 70s? KInd of funny and kind of dumb at the same time.

Am I a bad person if watching the video made me chuckle a little bit?!

 

[snowmanca]

So he seems to have suffered a similar issue with the parachute that Evil Knievel did back in the 70s? KInd of funny and kind of dumb at the same time.

Am I a bad person if watching the video made me chuckle a little bit?!

The whole thing is so absurd, along the discovery channel being there seemingly to reinforce they no longer promote actual science and now do quackery, it seems more like watching a comedy film than reality with actual consequences

 

[Chris O`Crooh]

If the Earth was flat, Mad Mike would meet a Person that SPEAKS WITH CAPS LOCK