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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:39PM
I somehow expected you to raise the Chewbacca argument due to how you tied an evolution to monetary policy to widespread willful ignorance and the entertainment value of people donating money to a guy that can get himself exploded if he wasn't so smart he merely tricked *them* and took their money -- as well as some of the legitiamtely stupid that donated to him hoping to prove that... what. what difference will it make to a flat earther?
The belief is stronger than facts. Prove this and they will simply move on to some other thing to not strongly disagree with. Climate change probably is too mainstream for them, so perhaps they've move on to flouridated water or vaccines.