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posted by chromas on Monday March 26 2018, @08:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the fun-with-steam dept.

Self-taught rocket scientist finally blasts off into California sky

"Mad" Mike Hughes, the rocket man who believes the Earth is flat, propelled himself about 1,875 feet into the air Saturday before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert. He told The Associated Press that outside of an aching back he's fine after the launch near Amboy, California.

"Relieved," he said after being checked out by paramedics. "I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket. I'm tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it."

The launch in the desert town — about 200 miles east of Los Angeles — was originally scheduled in November. It was scrubbed several times due to logistical issues with the Bureau of Land Management and mechanical problems that kept popping up.

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Previously: Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch
Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch


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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Monday March 26 2018, @06:15PM (1 child)

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Monday March 26 2018, @06:15PM (#658574)

    The flat earth model is locally useful for me, pretty much everywhere I go. I find it comes in handy when representing Earth's features on paper or a glass screen. I've heard that it's less and less accurate as scale of the represented area increases, but I really can't tell from personal experience, as I don't have paper maps big enough to show obvious errors, and there isn't enough detail on smaller large-scale maps to see errors there.

    So I'm going with a locally flat earth, and would like to plug the Lambert Conformal projection to take best advantage of this.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by legont on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:46AM

    by legont (4179) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:46AM (#658724)

    Besides, it's clear from the video that the earth is concave.

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