Guy who built home-grown rocket did not blow himself up

[pixy0stix]

www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/03/26/mad-mike-hughes-who-believes-earth-flat-blasts-off-self-built-rocket/457780002/

Sounds like he had a really rough landing, though.

[isabel]

"At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight."

[twotrue]

He's wacky but I gotta admit that I'm impressed he built something that works.

[downtoearth]

What an idiot. I mean, great, he didn't blow himself up, but we already did all this. We know the earth is round, we already had real scientists develop man-made rockets that can reach space and we already know that this guy isn't a "rocket-scientist" just because he can internet-sleuth engines to go 2000 ft in the air (which isn't really that far considering hot air balloons can go tens of thousands).

[picksthemusic]

Mar 26, 2018 15:20:52 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

What an idiot. I mean, great, he didn't blow himself up, but we already did all this. We know the earth is round, we already had real scientists develop man-made rockets that can reach space and we already know that this guy isn't a "rocket-scientist" just because he can internet-sleuth engines to go 2000 ft in the air (which isn't really that far considering hot air balloons can go tens of thousands).

Yeah, but that was fake. It was all the governments trying to keep us from discovering the real Earth - the pizza one.

I mean, that's what he'd say, anyway.

If you listen to podcasts, I highly recommend Oh No! Ross and Carrie's investigation of flat-earthers. It was so, so eye opening.


ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2017/11/7/ross-and-carrie-traverse-flat-earth-part-1-pizza-shaped-earth-edition 

[meshaliuknits]

Not blowing himself up is better than how I thought it would end. Way to surpass expectations!