Conspiracy theorists will see this as proof that "they" killed him to stop the truth coming out.
Never heard of the guy before this post but r.i.p anyway.
Man trying to prove earth is flat dies in homemade rocket:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51602655
Plucky daredevil or Darwin award contender? A bit of both in my opinion.
Conspiracy theorists will see this as proof that "they" killed him to stop the truth coming out.
Never heard of the guy before this post but r.i.p anyway.
Steam powered rocket? Pardon me?
Sent through the ether by diddling with radio waves
Why didn't it stick a video camera on a helium balloon ??
Definitely, a contender for the Darwin award, trying to ascend in a steam powered rocket? Perhaps a big catapult might have worked better??
Buy a seat in a conventional aeroplane?
Or perhaps travel as far as is possible in one direction and take some pictures of where the world ends?
Makes no sense.
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At least he discovered the Earth was "hard" and a little dented if not flat.
tbf
While the reports all call him a flat earther, I recall he was rather late to that party and was primary interested in getting his steam powered rocket off the ground.
I've read that he got into some financial difficulties and needed some help funding the steam rocket projects and who better that flat earthers to turn to, what’s better that their own “space program” to disprove the earth is spherical claims...
Debatable whether possible in a plane https://foxnomad.com/2019/04/18/can-...-from-a-plane/
How can anyone believe the earth is flat.Do they just bury their head in sand and totally ignore everything that shows it to be not so!.
But the Moon is made of cheese,that has been proven when they supposedly went there.
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Next they'll be steam trains.
It could happen.
Ah no, air travel is all faked don'tcha know.
Really, this is what some people believe. There are (or were) a couple of Youtube channels dedicated to explaining why aircraft fly much slower then they are supposed to, or are in fact much smaller than they are supposed to be, why the illusion is maintained even when you are on an aircraft, and why the world is much smaller than it is claimed to be. This belief structure also links with (but is not exactly the same as) those who believe that space travel is impossible, that there is a solid firmament 'capping' the sky, and flat Earth beliefs.
I wish I could find all the Youtube vids on this subject. Annoyingly I can't now find them. I think YT might have had a purge of this sort of stuff a while ago.
Interesting link - thanks
I recall a James May documentary where he went up in a 2 seater spy plane thing that went so high that it qualifies as spaceflight (or nearly did - cant quite remember) and that the curvature could be seen.
Not that you can book a ticket on such a flight.....
There is a live feed from the ISS that can be viewed by anyone at anytime on the internet of course. I would guess that the fact earth folk would say that this is fabricated in some way.
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Could try this on a plane https://www.indy100.com/article/flat...vature-7746121
Using a spirit level he proved that the pilot didn't dip the plane to allow for curvature.
Darwin Award all the way - has to be the top contender for this year's list.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51602655
So clever my foot fell off.
RIP Mike, I'm glad there are still people willing to do mad things.
Funny that his last act should be making a small section of the earth flat.
The world will be a less colourful place without him.
Mad as a box of frogs....but an amazing character.
We need more mad mike...and less saftey nazis
Salute.
I was just reading about him.
Hughes achieved some fame in 2002 when he soared in a 103-foot jump in a Lincoln Town Car stretch limo, earning a Guinness world record. Years later, he looked to re-create a failed jump by legendary daredevil Evel Knievel, who in 1974 tried to vault Idaho’s Snake River Canyon in a similarly designed steam-powered rocket.“I expect to see a flat disk up there,” he said of his ultimate goal to get to space, months after his 2018 launch. “I don’t have an agenda. If it’s a round Earth or a ball, I’m going to come down and say, ‘Hey, guys, I’m bad. It’s a ball, okay?’”
Just some guy who'd take funding however he could get it imo. Sad, but nothing to do with flat earth.
I think there comes a time when people need to accept that some actions fall in the 'stupid' category.
It is absolutely fine to try and build a rocket.
It is brave but absolutely fine to try and build a rocket that can carry a payload of ca 100kg.
It is completely stupid to believe that you can be that payload on your first attempt. NASA didn't do it. Roscosmos didn't do it. Even Top Gear decided against it (I mention them because they are usually good at being that kind of stupid). It's a stupid death, that served no purpose apart from delivering a last adrenalin rush to MH. His family and his friends are left with the grief; they can always try to justify it as 'living his passion' or 'living to the full'. I can accept that when the victim is one of those BASE jumpers, who toe the limit every time, and sometimes the roll of the dice don't go their way. In this case it's neither.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
There's no need to go into space to check the Earth is an oblate spheroid.
There are videos on YouTube of people sending up cameras by balloon. It goes up, and lands again with amazing footage the whole way.
No need to rely on others.
The equipment is cheap to buy and easy to implement.
The thing flat earthers fear is the sphere itself.
His cats must be missing him.In March last year, Hughes managed an altitude of 1,870ft (570m) before deploying his parachutes and landing with a bump.
Speaking afterwards, Hughes said: "Am I glad I did it? Yeah, I guess. I'll feel it in the morning. I won't be able to get out of bed. At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight."
Yes, I’m a cat person.
Dave