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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.
“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.”
He has been building rockets for years, albeit with mixed results.
“Okay, Waldo. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1!” someone yells in a test fire video from 2012.
There’s a brief hiss of boiling water, then . . . nothing. So Hughes walks up to the engine and pokes it with a stick, at which point a thick cloud of steam belches out toward the camera.
He built his first manned rocket in 2014, the Associated Press reported, and managed to fly a quarter-mile over Winkelman, Ariz.
As seen in a YouTube video, the flight ended with Hughes being dragged, moaning from the remains of the rocket. The injuries he suffered put him in a walker for two weeks, he said.
And the 2014 flight was only a quarter of the distance of Saturday’s mile-long attempt.
lol at the bolded. Good luck, buddy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ove-the-earth-is-flat/?utm_term=.2c090f8dc005
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.
“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.”
He has been building rockets for years, albeit with mixed results.
“Okay, Waldo. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1!” someone yells in a test fire video from 2012.
There’s a brief hiss of boiling water, then . . . nothing. So Hughes walks up to the engine and pokes it with a stick, at which point a thick cloud of steam belches out toward the camera.
He built his first manned rocket in 2014, the Associated Press reported, and managed to fly a quarter-mile over Winkelman, Ariz.
As seen in a YouTube video, the flight ended with Hughes being dragged, moaning from the remains of the rocket. The injuries he suffered put him in a walker for two weeks, he said.
And the 2014 flight was only a quarter of the distance of Saturday’s mile-long attempt.
lol at the bolded. Good luck, buddy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ove-the-earth-is-flat/?utm_term=.2c090f8dc005
It doesn't even look dishwasher safe, let alone atmosphere friendly...
But wait...
Need help packing, Kassen?
If the earth is flat, what if you get up there, and it turns out it is a flat circle? You wouldn't be able to prove it's not a sphere with the camera on a Nokia 3310...
But wait...
Need help packing, Kassen?
If the earth is flat, what if you get up there, and it turns out it is a flat circle? You wouldn't be able to prove it's not a sphere with the camera on a Nokia 3310...
Not a problem! Just got to take a picture from the other side. #MakeAmericaFlatAgain
I hope he does a night launch. Would be cool if he streams it with a cameras in the cockpit just to see his reacting right as it blows his mind away...of the truth and I don’t mind fireworks as well.
"He acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science."
lol, I love that line.
He's going to f*cking kill himself.
He already got pretty f*cked up in a rocket ride where he only traveled a few thousand(?) feet...
I seriously am fairly impressed by his first attempt. He traveled 1/4 mile in a homemade rocket without serious injury. Better than I could do...though granted I don’t have a bizarre death wish to become a charred crater.
Right, "and the 2014 flight was only a quarter of the distance of Saturday’s mile-long attempt."
One World Trade Center is 1776 ft up. Just take the elevator instead of maybe killing yourself. 
One World Trade Center is 1776 ft up. Just take the elevator instead of maybe killing yourself.
Na, he has to do this in the name of not science.
And that is a fake tower it takes you to a room with a screen that they try to pass off as 1776 ft up.
I'm sorry that some people think Road Runner / Wiley Coyote is an accurate portrayal of reality or physics.
When this is over, he will be one flattened earther himself.
One World Trade Center is 1776 ft up. Just take the elevator instead of maybe killing yourself.
To put this to scale, I live in the Colorado mountains, in a ski resort town. It's actually one of the lower elevation ski towns in the state. Our base area is nearly 7,000 feet. I'm physically looking up at the top of the gondola now, which is about 9,000 feet. There is another chair lift that goes higher, and after a little further hike, you can get to 10,500 ft. You can actually see pretty far, and way out to lower elevation areas from there. So, even without risking your safety skiing or snowboarding, you could just ride in an a closed gondola car and gain 2,000 feet (greater than his goal of 1,800 ft), and you could even just hang out in the building and look out the window. You can step outside, if you don't trust the windows. You would also be much, much higher up than his rocket will travel, since he is probably starting from a low elevation.
Not high enough?
There are actually 54 peaks in Colorado over 14,000 feet. I have summitted the tallest, Mt Elbert. You can see a pretty good distance from there. You can clearly see the curvature of the earth, but honestly, you can see out from much lower than that.These people are really slowing down our evolution... or are we going backwards now? Hard to tell.
