FILE - In this March 6, 2018, file photo, "Mad" Mike Hughes reacts after the decision to scrub another launch attempt of his rocket near Amboy, Calif. The self-styled daredevil died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, after a rocket in which he launched himself crashed into the ground, a colleague and a witness said.
BARSTOW, Calif. — A self-styled daredevil died Saturday after a rocket in which he launched himself crashed into the ground, a colleague and a witness said. “A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event,” the statement said. The sheriff’s department did not identify the person who died.
The earth is round. 'Mad' Mike is now definitely flat. Oh wait! 'Flat' Mike! Haha
Crash?! Pfft! It was murder! Big Round was never gonna let this guy discover the truth. Wake up, Sheeple!!! This angel is looking down on our little disk now in peace. Or maybe he’s looking up at it. I don’t really know how hard he hit. Sonofabitch might’ve punched right through
What's next is it to prove the hard way?
Jackass
What goes around, comes flat
Moron 🤷🏻♂️
I wonder if he did see the curvature of the earth before he started heading down and realized he was wrong the whole time
flat, after all, take revenge...
Sorry RIP
NASA sabotage to keep the TRUTH hidden! NASASSINS!!
Just part of evolution of the human gene pool.
He had a heck of a ride for a few seconds, though.
I have a hard time believing that someone smart enough to build a rocket, lacked the intelligence to understand the curvature of the earth, which can be verified by measurements on the ground. MadMikeHughes was just hoping for NASA or SpaceX to fly him to space.
Sad but surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
If they were really trying to 'prove' that earth is flat, how were they hoping to achieve escape velocity using a 'steam powered rocket?'
this man died for what he believed in..that takes a lot of courage.. this isn’t about who is right and who is wrong..he took his observation and applied his experiment..sadly he lost his life.
Mass times velocity, less than escape velocity, equals spontaneous liquifaction sooner than desired. At least he's in a crater now. Saves on burial costs.
He was on danieltosh
Haven’t you spoke to him before Iromg ? Re: him trying to prove the earth was flat?
I guess he was no rocket scientist
What were his expectations?
truthisoutthurr
Seems like making your own gunpowder.
The flat earth guy falls flat into earth and dies.
The smartest flat earther on record. That tells you something about flat earthers.
This is the most Barstow thing ever.
RIPMikeHughes
Darwin AWARD, well deserve 🚀!
Is he flat now? I don’t believe in flat people.
My condolences. Dude at least died chasing his dream.
Mad Mike: 'I'm going to prove that the Earth is flat' The Earth: 'Now you're flat'
Did he at least get high enough to see the curvature of the Earth?
BigHushofTX Nice of a journalist to not break character and witness a catostrophe rather than be a decent human being and try to prevent it.
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Saw this coming from a mile away. Get it? Because if the Earth was flat there’d be no horizon.
Who could have possibly predicted this? Oh, right, pretty much everyone except Mad Mike.
Flat earthers around the globe mourn his death.
Saw a documentary about this guy. Sad he died but it was inevitable. He really had no idea what he was doing.
NO SYMPATHY HERE 🤮💥
Didn’t he get a “Web Redemption” on Tosh.0 a season or two ?
Newton’s law
“It’s got a bunch of story lines- the garage-built thing. I’m an older guy. It’s out in the middle of nowhere, plus the Flat Earth. The problem is it brings out all the nuts also, people questioning everything. It’s the downside of all this.” Narrator: There was another downside
Bye Felecia
Come on people get real. He dit not die. He just fell off the edge of the earth!
Headline: Man Dies in Homemade Rocket. Also, We Landed on the Moon!
Gravity always wins
How can a flat-earther look at the rest of the planets and think earth is diffrent
Tried to prove the Earth is flat. Ends up only proving that he is now flat.
Wow, Flat Earth
Maybe he should have been a hard earther.
The earth may not be flat, but he surely is. RIP Mad Mike.
You misspelled 'idiot'.
That is awful...
his coffin is going to be a pizza box!
The average IQ on earth just got a little bit higher.
The Earth may not be flat, but this guy is now.
DarwinAwards
I mean...🤷🏻♂️
And I think it's gonna be a long long time Till touchdown brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a Rocketman Rocketman burning out his fuse up here alone
Flat earther dies in rocket crash. Surprise, surprise!
It took a while but natural selection finally caught up to him
We call this thinning the herd.
Still an idiot.
He successfully landed the worlds largest steam powered yard dart
To the AP, a flat earther crackpot is a self-styled dare devil. AP - distorting the facts since 1846
when you ignore Mom and get a Red Ryder BB gun, it always ends this way
God bless him for being curious about the universe and “how stuff works”. That is how scientific discovery works. However, the flat earth thing, sounds kinda like 300BC era theories. Mathematics is a precise science. Physics math would not function in a flat earth. Simple as that
ElSenala Well... for sure he demonstrated that the earth is... hard
Rest in Peace Mad Mike
RIP. He loved his job. Did he have a parachute?
Gravity Proven.
No one could have seen this coming
Self -styled daredevil never turns out well
I'm old enough to remember when the AP described him as a self-taught rocket scientist. See what happens when you take a flat earther seriously.
Good grief he was nuts.
Weird, science works. Stupidity dies not.
This is a huge loss for the FlatEarth movement. He will be missed. Hopefully he is hanging out with TPOP now. RIPMikeHughes NewsGizzy
Good way to go
Stupid Man probobly MAGA
Homemade rocket is all I hear.
RIP 🙏
Watch ‘Rocket Man’ on Amazon... it’s his story
Well I guess He went with a bang
Space Force engineer.
Clearly someone who didnt learn from little kim Jong why amateur rocket programs are a problem
He would have known a home built would fail id he had done a little research. Wily E. Coyote alone had several disastrous launches in his pursuit of the Roadrunner.
He should have consulted with the rocket scientists at Jack ass, because even those guys were able to pull this off. Lead researcher Steve-o could have helped
He was a flat-earther. This wasn't going to go well, ever.
Darwin = 1. madmikehughes = 0
How was this going to prove Earth is flat? He should have used a GoPro.
Natural selection wins again.
Natural selection in action.
Tale as old as time.
Was he a flat earther?
I suspect it's how he hoped to die, if earlier than he would have liked.
Didn't get get the flat earth morons to pay for his rocket ?
Breaking news: Famed Flat Earther dies in homemade rocket launch, plummeting 5000 feet to the ground when his chutes failed, proving the earth is in fact hard.
He was an idiot of highest level
Noted
Went out on a high
Looking at the bright side, he wasn’t exactly famous for his landings until today.
And that's why you always leave a note
He was mad
Bad luck. Let's not forget that most scientists are daredevil and imaginative. We can't push them aside as 'mad'.
In attempt to prove the Earth was flat
Apparently he didn’t believe in gravity either.
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