Remember this guy? Flat earther?

[af1212]

“Mad” Mike Hughes who was trying to prove the earth was flat by launching himself in homemade rockets so he could see for himself what the earth looks like?

Well today was his 3rd launch but this time he died.

“The daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes was killed in a rocket launch gone wrong Saturday in Barstow, Calif., two witnesses to the accident confirmed. He was 64.

It was the third launch for Hughes in one of his homemade rockets and part of his eventual plan to be able to determine for himself, up in the sky, if the Earth was as flat as he proclaimed to believe.

"We don't know what happened," said Waldo Stakes, a close friend of Hughes who's been involved in the launches and was at the scene. Stakes says the rocket landed nearly a mile away from the launch site.”


www.npr.org/2020/02/23/808645524/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-killed-in-crash-of-homemade-rocket

[redheadbaker]

A shoo-in for the Darwin awards.

[af1212]

Here is post from his second launch. Ironic title.

pandce.proboards.com/thread/595195/built-home-grown-rocket-blow

[AJL]

I find this sad all around. I know he's only himself to blame, but still.