Launch News Flat Earther "Mad" Mike Hughes dies in crash of homemade rocket

[dman]

"Mad" Mike Hughes, an amateur rocket builder intent om proving earth is flat, was killed in crash of homemade rocket during launch event
homemade-rocket in desert outside of Barstow California

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-dies-age-64-launching-homemade-rocket.html

 

[GLS]

No one saw that coming... :kim-welp:
Queue the conspiracies theories about government sabotage to avoid him proving the Earth is flat. :facepalm:

 

[Notebook]

Sad case and what a waste. Surely he knew how dangerous it was? Why not stick to un-manned, could have had fun and promoted rocketry.

 

[Marijn]

It's most tragic that apparently no one did a thing to stop it.

 

[Kyle]

It's most tragic that apparently no one did a thing to stop it.

Worse, it appears the Science Channel was filming a documentary about him at the time of the accident.

 

[Artlav]

Well, he was a daredevil. I want to think he just pretended to be flat-earther, in order to milk the conspiracy guys to fund his hobby.
Guess unmanned wasn't fun enough... RIP.

 

[4throck]

Sad but expected...

Flat earth "belief" means that the brain is incapable of distinguishing lines from curves.
I wonder if they are able to fully distinguish danger from safety (involving spacial relations), or even true from false.

I honestly think that medicine should look into this.

 

[Linguofreak]

It's most tragic that apparently no one did a thing to stop it.

If someone had tried to stop it, he'd have used it as proof that $SHADY_ORGANIZATION doesn't want you to know that the Earth is flat.

 

[jedidia]

I guess that makes him the only flat-earther I can't call a hypocrite. Guy put his money where his mouth was. Unfortunately it was the wrong bet...

(And "unfortunately" here is only half-sarcastic... once you developed webservices for a couple years, you get such distaste for timezones that more than once you find yourself wishing the earth really *was* flat...)

 

[llarian]

Well, most would call it a Darwin moment, but really I think Gaia (Mother Earth) was just waiting for the opportunity to slap him down.

 

[dman]

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A group in Denmark which is endeavoring to build a liquid fueled rocket using 75 % ethanol and liquid O2 - the same fuels which powered V2 and America's REDSTONE, which launched first American Astronauts to space in 1961

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Building a rocket called SPICA which is to powered by a 100 KiloNewton (22,000 lb) engine with goal of reaching
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[Donamy]

How was he trying to prove a flat earth, by launching himself in a rocket ?

 

[dman]

Wanted to fly high enough to see curve of the earth ……

 

[dbeachy1]

Would have been a lot simpler, cheaper, and safer if he had tried to launch his own GoPro camera into space instead.

 

[Sbb1413]

Would have been a lot simpler, cheaper, and safer if he had tried to launch his own GoPro camera into space instead.

He, like other flat-terrans, did not trust on other's point of view, even on the camera's.

Edit: I heard a similar accident on 2019, but do not know where.

 

[Ripley]

Wanted to fly high enough to see curve of the earth ……

I heard/read that his targeted altitude was 1.500 meters...doesn't sound like a lot.

 

[jedidia]

He, like other flat-terrans, did not trust on other's point of view, even on the camera's.

Well, it woud also have been a lot simpler, cheaper and safer to build his own camera, then.

Ok, I guess it's techniclly simpler to build a rocket that blows up than building a camera that delivers halfways decent images...

 

[Face]

I think he wasn't really a flat-earther, just rod that horse for the money to chase his project.

After all, if he really had reached a sufficient height and proclaimed that the earth is indeed round, would flat-earthers believe it? Most probably they'd say that he was somehow blackmailed by big $$$ into lying about his experience.

If he told us that it is flat, though, the public would demand proof, which he can't deliver just with eye-witness. He would need quality media coverage, which would need more funding, which the flat-earthers would gladly offer, now that someone has finally shown it! Right?

Anyway, a tragic event indeed. Sad to see someone clever enough to build a rocket killing himself in a foreseeable accident.

 

[Ripley]

That ripped parachute feathering just after launch wasn't a good sign...

 

[Frilock]

Just because you don't believe in science doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you.