UFO Buster Radio News 242: Mad Mike Hughes Shooting Himself Into The Heavens To See If Earth Is Flat

Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 2:16 a.m.

b'Flat-Earther \'Mad\' Mike Hughes Is Being Sponsored by a Dating App to Nearly Get Himself Killed
Link: https://www.livescience.com/flat-earther-mad-mike-hughes-rocket-launch.html

\'Mad\' Mike Hughes \\u2014 a self-taught rocket scientist and avowed flat-Earth conspiracy theorist \\u2014 is launching himself into the sky again.

"Mad" Mike Hughes, a self-taught rocketeer and flat-Earth conspiracy theorist, will once again attempt to launch himself into the sky over the Mojave Desert on a steam-powered rocket this Sunday (Aug. 11), hopefully reaching heights of 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) before parachuting safely back to the round, welcoming Earth. (What are you doing this weekend?)

The stunt, which is being sponsored by a "commitment-free dating app" and filmed as part of an upcoming Discovery Channel series featuring Hughes, gives the 63-year-old rocketeer a chance to outdo himself following a successful-yet-bumpy DIY launch he completed in March 2018.

Despite multiple setbacks and dust-ups with the Bureau of Land Management, Hughes rode his homemade rocket some 1,875 feet (572 m) into the air over Amboy, California, on March 24, 2018, before plummeting back to Earth at 350 mph (563 km/h). Hughes had to deploy two parachutes to save himself from smashing into the desert nose-first, finally walking away with just a sore back.

This Sunday\'s launch looks to be a bit riskier, with Hughes aiming to blast himself more than twice as high into the sky before dropping back to Earth at around 400 mph (643 km/h), according to a news release for the event.

But proving or disproving the Earth\'s 100% verifiable roundness is not the goal of this stunt, anyway. As Hughes has said before, he will need to soar past the K\\xe1rm\\xe1n line \\u2014 that contested boundary where the sky ends and space begins, roughly 62 miles (100 kilometers) over Earth \\u2014 to personally see our apparently latke-shaped planet from space with his own eyes.

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