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

No one saw that coming... :kim-welp:
Queue the conspiracies theories about government sabotage to avoid him proving the Earth is flat. :facepalm:
 
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.
 
It's most tragic that apparently no one did a thing to stop it.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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...)
 
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.
 
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How was he trying to prove a flat earth, by launching himself in a rocket ?
 
Wanted to fly high enough to see curve of the earth ……
 
Would have been a lot simpler, cheaper, and safer if he had tried to launch his own GoPro camera into space instead.
 
dbeachy1 said:
Would have been a lot simpler, cheaper, and safer if he had tried to launch his own GoPro camera into space instead.
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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.
 
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He, like other flat-terrans, did not trust on other's point of view, even on the camera's.
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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...
 
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.
 
Just because you don't believe in science doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you.
 
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