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https://www.rt.com/usa/481495-...-video-rocket-death/ Daredevil Flat-Earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes has died after launching himself into the sky in a homemade rocket. Purported video of the accident shows the fatal launch. Hughes and a colleague built the steam-powered rocket in hopes of shooting the daredevil 5,000 feet (1.5km) into the air. The endeavor was being documented by the Science Channel, which wanted to feature him in a new series called ‘Homemade Astronauts’. A video purportedly filmed at the site shows the rocket being launched into the sky near Barstow, California, before Hughes plunges back down to the earth. | ||
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Darwinism at its finest. Here is a link with the video, if you care to watch. https://www.route66news.com/20...GihqaRiPxBlw3BRR7ERj | |||
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Ya don’t say? Well that Darwin Award took longer than I thought. | |||
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He has fans around the globe... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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It appears his efforts....fell flat | |||
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Looks like his parachute fell off on launch. | |||
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Nice and flat where he landed. Any landing you walk away from...... ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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 Five thousand feet is a little below that threshold. | |||
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If only the Earth was round it might have lessened the impact of hitting a flat surface. No, wait.... _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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Well that was pretty horrible. Some pretty poor planning with the parachute deployment design there. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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He died doing what he loved. Dying I guess. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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I know nothing of the man. Watched the video. Sorry for his death. Sad that he perished. I will say it was an impressive effort. I have no idea how much time, energy and cost went in to his endeavor. But it took much courage to get into that device and pull the trigger. I know you guys will call it a dumb move. Could of been. But impressive none the less. Rip Mike. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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"It was always his dream to do this launch & Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey" Yes they were. Because son, it is what you are supposed to do. | |||
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Basing an extremely technically scientific attempt on a combination of minimal scientific knowledge and shoddy pseudo-science is not a recipe for success. Leave building rockets to the rocket scientists if you want to live. | |||
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There have been a few rockets built by those "rocket scientists" where those aboard did not live. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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Now he's a "flat" Earther. | |||
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Yep. Nothing's guaranteed. Rocket flight and space travel are inherently dangerous. However, it's a safer bet to trust the rocket scientists than to trust a self-taught crackpot with some scrap metal who thinks the world is flat. | |||
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What you did there, sir, was well seen  | |||
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Winner!!! 0-0 "OP is a troll" - Flashlightboy, 12/18/20 | |||
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