🐱 Flat-Earther to blast off in homemade, steam-powered rocket

Flat-Earther to blast off Sunday in homemade, steam-powered rocket

A Flat-Earther is looking to blast off toward space in a homemade, steam-powered rocket, in a launch he’s dedicating to U.S. President Donald Trump.

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A Flat-Earther is looking to blast off toward space in a homemade, steam-powered rocket, in a launch he’s dedicating to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Self-taught scientist “Mad” Mike Hughes plans to launch himself more than 1,500 metres into the sky on Sunday.

The 62-year-old limo driver and amateur rocketeer has gained attention in the past for his launches. He had several failed attempts before his first successful launch in March of last year.
Hughes successfully launched his rocket off a ramp made from a mobile home and scaffolding, making it 572 metres into the sky on the rocket before deploying his parachute and gliding back to Earth.
Amazingly, he walked away from the launch with only a sore back.

This time his sights are set even higher, tripling the height of the previous launch with an upgraded version of the rocket that he launched last year.
Decked out with emojis and the logo of the mission’s primary funder hud, a “hookup and casual dating” app, Hughes is looking to blast off to new heights.

Hughes says that Sunday’s launch is the first step towards his eventual goal of reaching the Karman line, which is the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.
While there is no universally accepted number for the Karman line, NASA’s standard is 80 km above sea level.
To get to that point, Hughes told The Associated Press in 2017 that he was working to design and build a “rockoon” – a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon before being launched – theoretically taking Hughes the 109 kilometres he would need to see the curvature of the Earth.
Hughes is an outspoken flat-Earther, telling The Associated Press: "I don't believe in science … There's no difference between science and science fiction."
"Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is," he told AP back in 2018. "Do I know for sure? No. That's why I want to go up in space."
Hughes is dedicating the launch to Trump, saying he hopes inspire Americans to make the “country great again.”
The launch is set to be filmed as part of a new Science Channel show titled, “Homemade Astronauts.”

 

[PN 801]

Say what you will about his belief, but this man's got a set of balls of steel.

 

[Terminus Est]

The earth isn't flat. It's shaped like a cocktail glass

 

[EasyPeasy]

But he will just hit the Firmament Dome and die.

 

[wylfım]

Unless he brings an oxygen tank he's passing out long before he gets high enough to see the curvature of the Earth.

 

[CatParty]

Unless he brings an oxygen tank he's passing out long before he gets high enough to see the curvature of the Earth.

What curvature

 

[lolwut]

What curvature

The frisbee edge.

 

[{o}P II]

It amazes me that flat earthers have the mental capacity to put something like this together

 

[Nekoyama]

What fucking dimension did we merge with to cause this kind of retardery.

 

[kcbbq]

These problems solve themselves. Shine on, crazy motherfucker, I'll buy a piece of the inevitable wreckage on eBay.

 

[nonvir_1984]

What are his views on immigration? Does he have a firearms licence?
Anyways, 1500 m is not enough to see anything; but high enough to make a big splat.

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

I fully encourage any and all flat earthers to do this; the odds still work out favorably for fewer of you if the landing happens safely after all.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is fully applicable here. Dumb as hell, full of gumption.

 

[Immortal Technique]

Does anyone have Mike's hotmail address? I want to compare my research with his findings.

Spoiler

 

[Begemot]

Watch the globetards SEETHE when their false mental prison is shattered!!!

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

March 24th 2018 launch. This man is a crazy crazy bastard:

 

[Maxliam]

What are his views on immigration? Does he have a firearms licence?
Anyways, 1500 m is not enough to see anything; but high enough to make a big splat.

Here in America only fag states make you get a license to exercise your god given right to own a weapon.

 

[Microscopic mile]

It really goes to show that there will be smart people even in the most idiotic movements. Granted their smarts maybe aren't in critical thinking, but smarts nonetheless.

I just hope he sees the edge of the Frisbee and open other people's eyes if he doesn't somehow doesn't die in this whole adventure.

IIRC Felix Baum Gartner holds the record for free fall from the highest altitude(39Km) so at the very least he'll be making a new world record if he ever succeeds in reaching 100+Km .

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

This is why I love the Flat Earthers. They don’t care what anyone else tells them, they need to see it themselves.
They want to find the truth so bad, they will start their own space program to get the answers they need.
I respect that a lot more than I do the people who sperg out over the notion that someone else thinks the Earth is flat.

 

[mindlessobserver]

The dude was trying to launch his rockets long before supporting flat earth. I am pretty sure he discovered there was a ready market of credulous idiots to pay for his expensive hobby.