'Mad' Mike Hughes, who wanted to fly to space to see if Earth is round, dies in rocket crash

"Mad" Mike Hughes was killed on Saturday afternoon after his rocket crashed on private property near Barstow, California.The Science Channel said on Twitter it had been chronicling Hughes' journey and that "thoughts & prayers go out to his family & friends during this difficult time.

Freelance journalist Justin Chapman, who was at the scene, said the rocket appeared to rub against the launch apparatus, which might have caused the mishap with the parachute. "This thing wants to kill you 10 different ways," Hughes said after that launch. "This thing will kill you in a heartbeat." "I don't want to take anyone else's word for it," he said in the video, posted on the BBC News website. "I don't know if the world is flat or round."

The Earth may not be flat, but it is hard and now, he's flat 🤔🤔

Too much money, too much time

Darwin Award winner!

OOF

Why wouldn’t he just launch a video camera?

Oops.....

I guess he may know the answer now.

Good. Stupidity at its best.

'Flat earther and Trump aficionado.'

It’s round! What a waste of a human being

Nobody thought to tell him that this might be a bad idea?

Damn it

a modern day Super Dave Osborne

Should've used Google Earth

You can be sincere and still be stupid. Sad to see someone throw their life away on that account.

Natural selection.

Newest Darwin Award winner

Darwin at work

Sad how easy so many are manipulated

Clearly a man of science. He designed an experiment to disprove Eratosthenes and Copernicus, and ultimately sacrificed everything in the service of Darwin.

If it’s considered rocket science, best not try it at home...

A sketch of a witness (possible suspect?) who was present but quickly left the scene has been released.

I guess it was rocket science...

I’m a square earther. Proof me wrong. And don’t be bringing any of that science to the dialogue. I’ll just call it fake.

Well.

Darwin's theory proven once again

Well we know he’s flat for sure.

When you think of it, he died looking for answers to something he didn't understand. Much like science.

If the earth is round, explain how spirit levels work?

So now we’ll never know

Fire up the conspiracy theories...

Never seen that coming

Who didn’t see this happening?

There's one born every day.

Guess he was trying to outdo Florida man.

Or.... 'Mad' Mike Hughes could gone to Squamish BC, climbed a mountain peak, looked west and see if he could see Japan. But, nooooooo...........

Another liberal that could not accept facts!!! But in the end it killed him!! Oops!

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