“Mad” Mike Hughes 61, a limousine driver plans to launch himself in a homemade rocket. He spent the last few years working on this steam powered self styled rocket. His red colored rust bucket was built using scrap metal, screams out the words “Research Flat Earth.”
Mad Mike plans on entertaining us this weekend by launching himself high into the air. He wants to prove the Earth is flat secretly wishing gravity ignores his launch.
Mike’s first launch in January 2014 at Winkelman, Arizona where he traveled 1,374 feet, had him incapacitated for weeks due to the Gravitational force.
The Flat Earther also holds a Guinness World Record for the longest ramp jump in a limousine, in 2002.
Despite his engineering skills, Hughes says he does not believe in science. “I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust,” he told the Associated Press. “But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction,” he added.
Scientifically an object moving at extremely fast velocity, would cause the ambient air to heat to such a temperature that it would form a super hot plasma. At such high speeds, this moving object would cause a vortex that would suck everything in its path. Science fiction states the superhero the Flash, is faster than light. But he does not end up burning people or causing plasma tornadoes.
So, basically according to Hughes, when the Flash starts running, we would find barbecued rocks, cars and people along his path.
Maybe he is not a big fan of science fiction, movies or TV series, he sure does need to watch them!
The Flat Earth Project cost Mad Mike a total of $ 20,000. This includes Rust Oleum paint to fancy it up and a motor home he bought on Craig’s List that he converted into a ramp.
Waldo Stakes, the CEO of Land Speed Research Vehicles, leased Hughes a five acre land in Apple Valley, California where the Flat Earther constructed his homemade rocket. He plans on soaring over the Mojave Desert at a speed of 500 miles per hour.
“I’ve still got to make a living and all that kind of stuff, and building this rocket actually eats up a lot of my time,” he told the Flat Earth Web Show. “But when I’m not doing that, I research things.” He also added he has been a Flat Earther for almost a year following several months of research.
Speaking about the risks of the flight, Hughes said, “It’s scary as hell, but none of us are getting out of this world alive.”
Mr.Hughes said his goal is to ascend high enough and gather evidence which would help him prove the Earth being round is a lie.
The concept of the Earth being round started with Pythagoras (500 BC,) Aristarchus (350 BC) and to recent images of the Earth revealed to the world. Hughes appears serious in his desire to disprove the actual model of our planet. If only he knew the two most important astronomical objects in the sky, the un and the Moon, he might have come up with a decent conclusion. Maybe we should ask Hughes to observe an eclipse, or maybe visit the beach sometimes. This could save him from spilling money down the drain.
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