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posted by martyb on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-truth-is-out-there dept.

According to Southern California Public Radio,

"Mad" Mike Hughes, limousine driver and self-proclaimed flat-Earther, announced that he had to delay his plan to launch himself 1,800 feet high in a rocket of his own making. The launch, which he has billed as a crucial first step toward ultimately photographing our disc-world from space, had been scheduled for Saturday — before the Bureau of Land Management got wind of the plan and barred him from using public land in Amboy, Calif.

Also, the rocket launcher he had built out of a used motor home "broke down in the driveway" on Wednesday, according to Hughes. He said in a YouTube announcement that they'd eventually gotten the launcher fixed — but the small matter of federal permission proved a more serious stumbling block (for now).

Related: Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday November 28 2017, @03:53PM (1 child)

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Tuesday November 28 2017, @03:53PM (#602533)

    > Very strange, that.

    That Wikipedia isn't able to maintain logical and factual consistency across a single article? Sadly, that's not strange at all.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @04:15PM (#602546)

    > Wikipedia isn't able to maintain logical and factual consistency across a single article? Sadly, that's not strange at all.

    It's almost like it's being written by multiple people, some of whom are not even experts on the topic.