A Flat-Earther’s Plan to Launch Himself in a Homemade Rocket Just Hit a Speed Bump

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A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet high Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket — in an effort to prove that Earth is flat — said he is postponing the experiment after he couldn't get permission from a federal agency to conduct it on public land. Instead, Mike Hughes said the launch will take place sometime next week on private property, albeit still in Amboy, Calif., an unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert along historic Route 66.

Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program. Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof that it's a disk we all live on. “It’ll shut the door on this ball Earth,” Hughes said in a flight fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group.
 
I just.... I mean..... It's not something you can legitimatly argue a true / false about. Earth round, grass green (then brown when it dies), water wet. If he dies it's a government cover up. If he gets told he can't do it, government cover up. If he is successful then the picture he takes will be flat so the world is flat? I don't get it...
 
he's the real Rocket Man alright. All he needs to do is send up a high altitude balloon with live feed video camera

how do flat earthers explain night and day?
believe it or not, they do have a way of explaining it.

Ask a flat earth'er how they know the earth is flat and they will tell you to go to the ocean shore and hold a book edge to the horizon. Of coarse it will be flat on the horizon since you will be viewing only what, 10 miles left to right? Even viewing hundreds of miles horizontally it will look flat because, well, the earth is HUGE and flat earth'ers refuse to admit they totally ignore what is called SCALE

You can't believe the earth is flat if you understand scale
 
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What's wrong with these flat earthers ?? Haven't they looked through a telescope at all the other planets in the solar system ? Don't they think to ask themselves, "Why are all the other planets, moons and stars circular globes but the earth isnt !!! Open your minds flat earthers :):)
 
The guy only jumped on the flat earther bandwagon because he saw them as an easy way to raise the money needed. His goal was just to launch himself into the upper atmosphere. And only became a flat earther when looking into ways to raise money. But I guess if there goals align that doesn't really matter.
 
he's the real Rocket Man alright. All he needs to do is send up a high altitude balloon with live feed video camera


believe it or not, they do have a way of explaining it.

Ask a flat earth'er how they know the earth is flat and they will tell you to go to the ocean shore and hold a book edge to the horizon. Of coarse it will be flat on the horizon since you will be viewing only what, 10 miles left to right? Even viewing hundreds of miles horizontally it will look flat because, well, the earth is HUGE and flat earth'ers refuse to admit they totally ignore what is called SCALE

You can't believe the earth is flat if you understand scale

You can see the earth start to curve at 5k’, and easily see for hundreds of miles. Get past 10k’ and the curve starts to become more pronounced. I don’t know how anyone who flies on a passenger jet can still be a flat earther without a massive amount of willful blindness.
 
You people are under some silly impressions that anyone is going to change this guy's mind other than himself.

He'll change it alright - by more than likely splattering it in the lower atmosphere along with the rest of his vehicle when it self-destructs, but then again he might be lucky enough to survive.

Either way, when he's done with this, he'll still believe the Earth is flat so really, why bother giving him more fuel to destroy himself.

More power to him and I fully expect to give him a Darwin Award soon enough even if he has passed on his genes.

I don’t know how anyone who flies on a passenger jet can still be a flat earther without a massive amount of willful blindness.

See my sig for the answer. :D
 
Ok then, why would a moon orbit a flat disk then ?? How would a flat disk have enough gravitational pull to have another planetary body stay in orbit ? I suppose that flat earthers have a scientific explanation for that as well ?? I actually think all their theory's are conspiracy theory's because they are in fear of the truth and the fact that the government/NASA or whoever else puts out :confused::confused: I am actually getting confused now !!!
 
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You can see the earth start to curve at 5k’, and easily see for hundreds of miles. Get past 10k’ and the curve starts to become more pronounced. I don’t know how anyone who flies on a passenger jet can still be a flat earther without a massive amount of willful blindness.

From what I understand, some do not believe that passenger jets actually fly. Instead, there are super-fast bullet trains, and the "views" from within are all faked.

Yes, really. :p
 
He's just trying to put Amboy on the map. I've driven thru there, it's like 4 beat up trailers and Amboy crater.
 
If the earth is flat and the moon & the sun rotate around the earth "disc" as illustrated, why can't we see the sun over there at night and vice versa?

Duh.
 
"Flat Earther?". WTH is that? It boggles my mind that people still think the Earth is flat.

Here, I'll fix you up, watch this:


On topic though, I hope this guy gets to achieve his dream of smashing into the Earth from 1800 feet.

"Here lies steam rocket man. Oh he had a mighty dream to prove the Earth was flat. Until he fell from 1800 & all we heard was splat!"
 
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I bet they do use GPS regularly on the other hand. But GPS is just a fake construct of the ballers!
 
I fully encourage you guys to look into some of this crap. It's highly entertaining. Absolutely stupid, but also entertaining. Let me try and address a few things I've picked up from these nutjobs.....

how do flat earthers explain night and day?

Imagine a flat disc, with a pole in the center rising from it. Attach a string to the sun and the moon, attach the strings to the pole. The sun and moon rotate around this axis, staying on the edge of the disc. As the sun moves away from you and the moon gets closer, it's night. The closer the sun is to you on this flat plain, the more daylight you see.

Ok then, why would a moon orbit a flat disk then ?? How would a flat disk have enough gravitational pull to have another planetary body stay in orbit ? I suppose that flat earthers have a scientific explanation for that as well ?? I actually think all their theory's are conspiracy theory's because they are in fear of the truth and the fact that the government/NASA or whoever else puts out :confused::confused: I am actually getting confused now !!!

The flat earth is moving upwards. The force of gravity isn't pulling you to the center of the earth, it's simply the force of the earth moving upwards through space that is pushing you down to the surface.

How exactly do they explain worldwide shipping routes?

What's there to explain? Everything is flat, there are no curves. Shipping lanes are all in straight lines and the only thing that's moving is the sun around the circle.


Yeah, I fucking love these guys. So simply devoid of common sense, yet they come up with these simple explanations for everything that if you dont think about it, it all makes total sense!
 
It would be great if they had a live video camera for this dude so we could see the look on his face when he sees its not flat.
 
how do flat earthers explain night and day?
Indeed.

How will they explain that you can travel magnitudes further than the disc he will inevitably see from high up, since he is using this exercise as a proof.
And that the surface is curved not flat.
And if you keep going in the same direction you end up back in the same place, without travelling over the same land twice, with no help from the local wizards?

In an odd co-incidence Freddie Flintoff, an ex England cricketer, is a believer too.
I wonder what leads to this level of confusion, those balls must hurt the head bad.
Bunking maths class at school possibly.
 
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The most ironic thing about flat earthers is that they say the earth is flat, but recognize other planetary objects as spheres, like the moon and the sun.
 
I've never seen people so proudly stupid.

If they want to fund something, they should fund a boat trip to the edge of the earth and let them fall off the ocean.

Darwin, where are you
 
So I read that one of the reasons they think they Earth is flat is that (conspiracy, who would of thought?) it allows NASA and other spaces agencies to extort money from the government.

1) You don't need a space agency or a flat Earth to extort money from the government.
2) Why is the Earth being a sphere a requirement for NASA extorting money?
3) With a flat Earth, we would not have a space agency?
4) No, the Earth is under a dome. A rocket would hit the dome.
 
The flat earth is moving upwards. The force of gravity isn't pulling you to the center of the earth, it's simply the force of the earth moving upwards through space that is pushing you down to the surface.

Wouldn't that require constant acceleration, rather than just motion; and rather than seeing red shift everywhere we look we would be seeing huge amounts of blue shift?

(I know, I know, they'd just say everything is accelerating with us...)

* * *

Fucker only wanted to go 1,800 feet up. I've personally flown aircraft from see level to 10,000 feet in the air, and that's still far too low to see the curvature of the earth. IIRC even the SR71 guys couldn't see it at 85,000 feet. Why not just ride a weather balloon for your silly stunt? Baumgartner got to 120,000 feet on the Red Bull Stratos mission.

It would cost hardly anything, and easily be approved, to launch your own camera and straight edge on a weather balloon, but this isn't about science or research. It's about an old "dare devil" that wanted to make headlines one more time.

(Course, doing that, if any curvature was discerned, they'd say that it was the edge of the disc you're seeing and not the curvature of the earth. Assholes.)
 
So I read that one of the reasons they think they Earth is flat is that (conspiracy, who would of thought?) it allows NASA and other spaces agencies to extort money from the government.

1) You don't need a space agency or a flat Earth to extort money from the government.
2) Why is the Earth being a sphere a requirement for NASA extorting money?
3) With a flat Earth, we would not have a space agency?
4) No, the Earth is under a dome. A rocket would hit the dome.


A funny irony is that, using what I can tell is their own possible hypothesis, I could still justify a legitimate reason for NASA style exploration. Many of them believe that Earth is flat with the sky as some sort of "dome" above us and all the curves we see are merely illusion, but they also think that there could be something either on the opposite side of the flat earth, or outside it entirely with other flat planets and their domes, or to a separate cosmology of some sort... all of which could need a NASA or some sort of exploratory agency to investigate even by their own myths. Of course, the much more mundane suggestion of even a flat Earth could use satellites for communication launched into the "sky dome" above it seems logical too... but then again I expect some of them reject even that premise.
 
I love how people like this stuff their fingers in their ears and go “lalalalalalalalaa” when presented with scientific evidence. Same for religious nutters.
 
he's the real Rocket Man alright. All he needs to do is send up a high altitude balloon with live feed video camera
You can't do that NASA will just get the NSA to fake the feed.
 
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Walk into any church..same thing. Creationists, flat earthers, religion..all of them revel in ignorance.
wrong...

I believe the heavens declare the majesty of a creator. I don't not believe this universe and creation as we know it is based on chance. I also enjoy and ingest science - it does not cripple my belief in a creator - rather it furthers the idea of a creator.
Psalm 19:1

This is not the place for an argument or discussion of the sort. Your post was incendiary - my response is to refute that claim I found incendiary. This will be my sole post on the subject in this thread.



On topic -- this guy won't be around much longer to further the flat earth agenda. It'll be simply amazing if he doesn't splatter with his homemade rocket.
 
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Once you reach a certain height the CIA swoops in with some knockout gas, and implants false memories.

(for the above, and only half serious)
Christianity is comprised of people who find it perfectly reasonable to symbolically eat the flesh of a cosmic Jewish zombie and telepathically implore him to save them from the consequences of a snake-deceived rib-woman's consumption of magic fruit.
 
Update: His broke arsed rocket broke down in the driveway.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news...els-rocket-launch-prove-earth-flat/894587001/

“I don’t believe in science,” said Hughes, whose main sponsor for the rocket is Research Flat Earth. “I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”

Edit: I wonder how well that Rust-Oleum paint job is going to hold up (or down)?
 
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I will donate a GoPro to this guy as long as I can recover the footage....
 
Update: His broke arsed rocket broke down in the driveway.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news...els-rocket-launch-prove-earth-flat/894587001/

“I don’t believe in science,” said Hughes, whose main sponsor for the rocket is Research Flat Earth. “I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”

Edit: I wonder how well that Rust-Oleum paint job is going to hold up (or down)?
lol
I wonder what he thinks science is.
I dont think he knows what he doesnt believe in.
 
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