Flat Earther, Mike Hughes died in Barstow today

[WYRD]

'Mad Mike' Hughes, daredevil who built a homemade steam rocket, dies in launch attempt

He was 64.

www.space.com

 

[Mototrig]

At least his label is correct now. He's a flat on the Earth scientist. Too soon?

 

[HST4ME]

Good. Dumbass...

 

[4Waters]

I saw the video, the chute deployed at the launch pad and tore off.

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

At least his label is correct now. He's a flat on the Earth scientist. Too soon?

His name isn’t Kobe, so it is fine.

 

[4Waters]

Here's the video, hope it doesn't get pulled down.

Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Dead at 64 After Rocket Crash Landing

We've confirmed ... 'Mad' Mike Hughes has, in fact, died. 'Mad' Mike Hughes is dead after launching himself in the air with a self-made rocket that crash-landed -- and it was captured on camera.

www.tmz.com

 

[DWC]

Self made rocket by a guy that didn’t believe the earth is round. Didn’t see that coming.

 

[Looking Glass]

Good. Dumbass...

 

[welldigger00]

Lawn dart!


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[HST4ME]

Gravity is a bitch

 

[racered]

Ran out of steam, but nailed the landing.

 

[guest hs]

That was hard to watch

 

[RiverDave]

Pretty ruthless comments...

Guy was just a dare devil trying to see how far he could push a home made rocket.. Pretty sure the flat earth deal was just for publicity.

 

[Deja_Vu]

Always test and retest the chute ... same thing happened to Evil Kneivel ... except he was lucky enough to survive it.

NASA spends a ton of dough on chute deployment mechanisms

 

[SpeedyWho]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. What do you expect when you hear some wacko builds a homemade rocket and launches himself in it.

 

[WhatExit?]

Poor Mike ran out of steam.

Pretty ruthless comments...

You new here?

 

[RiverDave]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. What do you expect when you hear some wacko builds a homemade rocket and launches himself in it.

I dunno.. I still remember when that guy tied balloons to a lawn chair and cruised over a couple states..

I thought he was awesome. Lol

 

[racered]

Who is Ruthfull about this? When a person works so hard at stupid death tricks it is likely that fail might be the ultimate outcome. I do not mourn this, I applaud the show. Watching Saudi car drivers doing high speed spins, slides, crash rollovers into crowds of onlookers is even more entertaining. Absolute stupid danger, on purpose is a LAM show, and I might find it entertaining. Truth

 

[c_land]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1231336002175717376

 

[4Waters]

I dunno.. I still remember when that guy tied balloons to a lawn chair and cruised over a couple states..

I thought he was awesome. Lol

This is the same guy?

 

[4Waters]

Never order rockets from ACME.

 

[redone76]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1231336002175717376

Ouch!

 

[SpeedyWho]

I dunno.. I still remember when that guy tied balloons to a lawn chair and cruised over a couple states..

I thought he was awesome. Lol

For sure the balloon lawn chair dude was awesome, but if you heard he fell out or crashed it into power lines and died no one would be surprised. That’s the risk you take I guess.

 

[c_land]

Ouch!

No body seemed concerned when the parachute ejected when he took off

 

[4Waters]

No body seemed concerned when the parachute ejected when he took off

Good point, wonder what he had on Hillary?

 

[JayBreww]

'Mad Mike' Hughes, daredevil who built a homemade steam rocket, dies in launch attempt

He was 64.

www.space.com

Flat earth believers are morning his death all around the earth


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[Rondog4405]

Just watched a interview with mad mike..he was in lucerne valley during KOH.. It was just a matter of b4 that dude kicked the bucket..

 

[racered]

I'd offer him a beer, but he's lost his grip

 

[racered]

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

That weather looked IFR.......

 

[riverroyal]

His rv launch gizmo was pretty sweet
What amazes me is all the people around him. Like his 'team'
Dude was like a cult leader of sorts.
How could his team not think this has a 100% chance of a bad ending.

It tells me certain humans can get other other hunan to do anything. Strong leaders, not smart followers

I need a gimmick...

 

[overdue]

I dunno.. I still remember when that guy tied balloons to a lawn chair and cruised over a couple states..

I thought he was awesome. Lol

no no no you got it wrong ,,,,, they were tied to a house ,,,,,,,, it was in the movie " UP "

 

[Kachina26]

Lawn dart!


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I was telling the guys in the office that he was the Human Lawn Dart World Champion.

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

Flat earth believers are morning his death all around the earth


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Well played.

 

[buck35]

His rv launch gizmo was pretty sweet
What amazes me is all the people around him. Like his 'team'
Dude was like a cult leader of sorts.
How could his team not think this has a 100% chance of a bad ending.

It tells me certain humans can get other other hunan to do anything. Strong leaders, not smart followers

I need a gimmick...

Hey ,just look at how many people feel the Bern.

 

[Backlash]

What goes up must come down.

 

[4Waters]

What goes up must come down.

I'm not a physicist but that makes perfect sense to me. LOL

 

[Advantage 1]

At least he died doing what he loved

 

[RVR SWPR]

WASHINGTON POST:2/23/20
In March 2018, he rode his garage-made rocket 1,875 feet above the Mojave Desert, reaching a speed of 250 mph, Stakes told the AP. It was the next step in Hughes’s mission to photograph the world. “It’ll shut the door on this ball Earth,”

“Hughes said I expect to see a flat disk up there,” he said 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?’”

 

[ElAzul]

Dude literally built a STEAM powered rocket and had some sort of success before this oppsie. I don't care who you are that is impressive.

He stuck the shit out of that landing

 

[2Driver]

It tells me certain humans can get other other hunan to do anything. Strong leaders, not smart followers

I need a gimmick...

What ever you come with be sure to include a back-up chute.

 

[Ziggy]

Dude literally built a STEAM powered rocket and had some sort of success before this oppsie. I don't care who you are that is impressive.

He stuck the shit out of that landing

According to the article, he's not the only one building something like it. Sci channel was filming 3 different crews building a vessel.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Nut ball...definitely.
But, still bright enough to build a steam powered rocket able to travel 1800ft at 250mph vertically.
Smarter than me.
Difference is, I'm smart enough to know I don't know. He had propulsion, but need a deceleration team.

 

[HALLETT BOY]

If you to YouTube and type in Wonderhussey , she just did an interview with him about a week ago . Rocket looked like one of those rides you see in front of stores ...he was a character though .

 

[obnoxious001]

Pretty ruthless comments...

Guy was just a dare devil trying to see how far he could push a home made rocket.. Pretty sure the flat earth deal was just for publicity.

He has had successful launches in the past, and he did have two parachutes. In the March 2018 launch you can see he deployed the 2nd one separately to slow the landing as he got closer to the ground. This time you can see both chutes (two different colors) being ripped from the rocket, and basically knew at that point it was all over for him.

I would sort of tend to agree with you Dave, watched a few of his older video interviews, the guy is pretty quick witted. He apparently had no other source of income, so was probably living on sponsor money, and of course that he would progress and achieve his various goals. One of his other interviews said he would rather be "on Catalina Island" that day.

There is also a video of the 2018 launch from inside the rocket with him that was sort of interesting to watch.

Steam powered rocket, who else has built one in their backyard and got off the ground in it?

 

[RiverDave]

This is the same guy?

i don’t believe so.. Just saying he pulled it off and it was awesome

 

[racered]

Fuck, I got it now! A steam powered drone, and a fucking camera to take pictures. of the earth or something. me smart.
(can u see the problem here)

 

[DRYHEAT]

Will there be GoPro footage?

 

[ElAzul]

I think Dave is right he was smart enough to use the flat earth malarkey to get some sponsor bucks. Anyone can spend a few bucks on a drone and GoPro to achieve the same thing but dude wanted to build rockets and smash the go button.

Someone should send his videos to fat ass Kim in N Korea. Pretty sure Mike's rocket program was still more solid than his

 

[WhatExit?]

Flat earth believers are morning his death all across the earth

Fixed it for you