San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said its officers were called to a rocket launch event at around 14:00 local time on Saturday.
"When God made Mike he broke the mould. The man was the real deal and lived to push the edge. He wouldn't have gone out any other way! RIP" he said.The daredevil, who lived in Apple Valley, made headlines internationally when he announced his intention to prove his theory that the Earth was flat.
So we will never really know 🙄
He’ll be disappointed with that
didn't the idiot know ho high passenger planes fly, sorry for his family but he is no loss to science.
Thanks, I needed a laugh this morning. 😁
Subs unless the dubs can be done by the origional actors as was done with Das Boot
He was getting close to proving the Earth is flat and this happened! Unlucky or foul play? 🤔
Nickname checks out. ✅
Not the only American to not have a clue about science or astronomy.... Still, it’s one less, for the moment.
Oh dam God bless him
It doesn't need a rocket scientist to know that this was bound to happen.
BBCTech All the flerffers will be claiming conspiracy, really wanted him to succeed
🙏🏻😢🙏🏻😢🙏🏻
It’s very sad news. Even if it was inevitable. Besides his funny ideas, he was in fact a stellar guy, his heart was in the right place. RIP MadMike. The world needs colorful people like you!
Man pilots home made rocket. Who knew that would end in disaster?
Survival of the fittest.
'To Infinity.....
Splat earther!
The results where disappointing
Failed daredevil......
The world a she’s a flat lika you head!
It's already been proven that the world isn't flat. He would never be happy unless he could see for himself.
Glad he didn’t take anyone else out with him
If the Earth was flat, Rather than go up wouldn’t it have been easier to just walk to the edge and take a picture of it?
Pity Trump hadn’t gone along for the ride
It’s not terribly surprising, but if a flat earther had actually managed to get high enough to see the curve of the Earth - he would have realised the truth for himself.
BBCTech A lot more of a lawn dart than a landing
BBCTech Darwin Award.
Well that proves it! Flat as a pancake
I think it is he who is now flat, not the earth!
Someone just won the ‘Most Cliches in One Sentence’ competition: ‘'When God made Mike he broke the mould. The man was the real deal and lived to push the edge. He wouldn't have gone out any other way! RIP' he said.’
A flat earth believer....enough said 🙄🙄
DarwinAwards And We Have a Winner...
I’m sure there will be tributes from all around the globe
Could his nickname be much more foreshadowing?
His mrs wouldn’t be over the moon with him
Erm.....'Hughes was well-known for his belief that the Earth was flat. He hoped to prove his theory by going to space.' We already know it isnt flat from the thousands of images from space. He was obviously intelligent. ( built a rocket) what a waste of intelligence and life.
Americans...🤦♀️
Ironically, he kind of looks like Mr. Roarke from Fantasy Island... smiles, everyone, smiles
Mad...？yes！
That's like eating arsenic to prove it isn't poisonous!
Can I nominate him for this years Darwin Award?
Flat Earthers will claim he was assassinated to hide the truth
What a boring world we would have without people like this
bet someone will call it a tragedy or accident, but most will say bound to happen. If you play Russian roulette with gravity, gravity will always win.
Very sad. Quite a character by all accounts. Such a shame he had to die pursuing such an idiotic notion.
Can’t win em all....RIP
Gobshite
'Mad' being the operative word for that man!
Clearly mental issues, believing the earth is flats a starter.
Sydney (Aus) is 11 hours ahead of London (UK) Just take that into consideration before making a rocket
The least surprising headline in history. Very sad.
Very sad. Thoughts and prayers to his friends and family around the oblate spheroid.
It's the way he would have wanted to go
Darwin working...
Sorry
Good night sweet prince.
Where’s Waldo ?
I dedicate this to Mad Mikey Hughes. May he rest in pieces.🙄
Thoughts and prayers
He was well named then
Natural Selection
Now who's flat lol
''Mad' Mike Hughes, 64, crash-landed his steam-powered rocket shortly after take-off...' Perhaps he wasn't shoveling the coal fast enough.
Silenced by the powerful just before exposing centuries of lies! Or possibly just an absolute Dilbert.
If you live on the edge the chance of you falling is increased its not rocket science is it? People with a death wish are usually answered.
RIPMikeHughs. It was only a matter of time once the media took an interest.
And the winner of this years Darwin Award is!
How was he allowed to carry on testing a home made rocket. Was always going to be one outcome. Sad
He's going to get a Darwin Award for that.
Life in the fast lane
Guess he’s finally as famous as he always wanted to be, maybe not how he wanted to be, but still eh?
i will find it very silly if 'flat earthers' were like.'thus what you get for believing the earth is round'.any time astronauts suffered this exact fate.but i guess the self appointed 'intelligent ones' don't know nasa astronauts have been killed this exact way
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Darwin.
Guess he proved gravity is real, if nothing else.
Hope he's ok
He did prove that gravity is real.
very sad...RIP
if so called 'professionally built rockets' are catching fire and incinerating everyone on board right on take was this guy going to fare?
I was really hoping he would succeed and see the curvature of the Earth.
Didn't see that coming
Surely someone so willfully ignorant about science facts was likely to launch himself in a scientifically unsound rocket ship and crash. He probably asked for it.
Newton and Darwin claim another one.
So does this mean the world is ... round? What, too soon?
Who now will lead Trump's Space Force, Flat Earth Division? RIPMadMike
Flat-Earther goes splat! Maybe science would have helped him build a better rocket.
What? He believes the world is flat? And he wants to prove it? Well, your foolery did you in.
Poor dude. Do you think he had an ‘oh shit, it really is round’ realization, though?
The earth is flat in some areas. And very hard, I would guess. Maybe if he goes to Heaven, then he'll get the truth. It's round.
He proved it. He totally slammed into the flat piece of glass that sits just above the clouds. Take that, science!
Now he will see that the earth in fact is not flat.
Hope he's ok
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