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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.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday November 28 2017, @04:58PM
But even the conspiracy retards aren't dumb enough to fund this guy.
What are you talking about? The articles I read said that he got a ton of money from these idiots as soon as he "converted" to flat-eartherism, which was very recently. This whole thing looks like a scam, really, though a good and honorable one since it's bilking total idiots (flat-earther conspiracy theorists) out of their money. He's probably just coming up with some kind of excuse so he can pocket most of the money without having to actually risk his life in this home-built rocket.