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This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.

Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program.

Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above the Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof of the disc we all live on.

“It’ll shut the door on this ball earth,” Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday’s flight. Theories discussed during the interview included NASA being controlled by round-Earth Freemasons and Elon Musk making fake rockets from blimps.

Hughes promised the flat-Earth community that he would expose the conspiracy with his steam-powered rocket, which will launch from a heavily modified mobile home — though he acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science.

“This whole tech thing,” he said in the June interview. “I’m really behind the eight ball.”
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I'm sure this is all going to go extremely well ... what nails it for me is the launch from a modified mobile home
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Well, either the explosion upon launch or the big boom on impact will be the end of this story.
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This is as stupid as trying to prove the earth isn't round... hold on.... duh
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Boris13c wrote:
Hughes promised the flat-Earth community that he would expose the conspiracy with his steam-powered rocket, which will launch from a heavily modified mobile home — though he acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science.

Hmmm, quite a paradox here. A guy who doesn't believe the earth is round is trying to become an expert in rocket science. Tough to reconcile.
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I'll never understand the flat Earthers when traveling by plane what happens when you get to the edge of the map? Let alone time it takes to go place to place when going West one way and East another.
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the deeper you dig, the better it gets.

https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/guy-ta ... h-is-flat/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Wounded Bear wrote:
Boris13c wrote:
Hughes promised the flat-Earth community that he would expose the conspiracy with his steam-powered rocket, which will launch from a heavily modified mobile home — though he acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science.

Hmmm, quite a paradox here. A guy who doesn't believe the earth is round is trying to become an expert in rocket science. Tough to reconcile.
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Our understanding of gravity largely depends on Earth being a spherical object — that explains why objects maintain essentially the same weight across the globe. But Flat Earthers disagree: "Objects simply fall," reads the society's website. Flat Earthers have a few theories as to why objects fall, but they seem pretty confident that the common conception of gravity isn't the ticket: "What is certain is sphere earth gravity is not tenable in any way shape or form."
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RustyTrubisky wrote:the deeper you dig, the better it gets.

https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/guy-ta ... h-is-flat/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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this guy simply can't be serious

he needs to have his doc either change his meds or up the dosage
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Boris13c wrote:
RustyTrubisky wrote:the deeper you dig, the better it gets.

https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/guy-ta ... h-is-flat/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
:shock:

this guy simply can't be serious

he needs to have his doc either change his meds or up the dosage
Hey man let him do his thing. Prove to you simpletons why the earth is clearly flat. It's really simple, everyone is lieing to you. There is an ice wall surrounding earth. You can literally fall off it. Though the moon and sun are observed round the earth is flat. See watch this tennis ball video. Gravity can't be real because non spherical mass has a gravity of it's own.
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mmmc_35 wrote:
Boris13c wrote:
RustyTrubisky wrote:the deeper you dig, the better it gets.

https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/guy-ta ... h-is-flat/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
:shock:

this guy simply can't be serious

he needs to have his doc either change his meds or up the dosage
Hey man let him do his thing. Prove to you simpletons why the earth is clearly flat. It's really simple, everyone is lieing to you. There is an ice wall surrounding earth. You can literally fall off it. Though the moon and sun are observed round the earth is flat. See watch this tennis ball video. Gravity can't be real because non spherical mass has a gravity of it's own.
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I'm just going to go ahead and say what everybody's thinking right now....I wonder what Papa Dongo would have to say about this business.
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