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  1. #61
    Jan2017
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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    He did it!

    "Am I glad I did it? Yeah. I guess. I'll feel it in the morning. I won't be able to get out of bed. At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight."

    Success I guess - not knowing what was accomplished - but with a hard landing - back broke and taken from site on a stretcher ?



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    "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."


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  4. #63
    Awesome achievement. Seriously impressive. I don't remember hearing of anyone who privately built a rocket and launched themselves in it. He totally pushed the envelope in the best tradition.

    I can't help loving how much venom Flat Earthers elicit from the general public. Online comments on articles about this launch are almost unanimously derisive and dismissive. It's amazing to hear loads of people actually express a sincere wish that he'd died in the effort.
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  5. #64
    The self-taught engineer known as “Mad” Mike Hughes launched himself 1,875 feet into the sky Sunday, but his descent nearly turned disastrous as the ship came zooming back down to earth at a speed of 350 mph.
    The 61-year-old deployed parachutes to slow down but crash landed in the Mojave Desert, just east of Los Angeles.
    In video of the descent, response teams in the desert are seen rushing over to help as bystanders cheer him on, but the rocket man fears he has broken his back.

    He wants to raise $2 million to launch a rocket into space to prove his theory that the Earth is flat.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-mad-...182000969.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by undergroundrr View Post
    Awesome achievement. Seriously impressive. I don't remember hearing of anyone who privately built a rocket and launched themselves in it.
    I do.

    some guy named Evel Knievel


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    A self-styled daredevil died Saturday after a rocket in which he launched himself crashed into the ground, a colleague and a witness said.“Mad" Mike Hughes died after the homemade rocket crashed on private property near Barstow about 1:52 p.m. near Highway 247, the Daily Press of Victorville reported.
    Waldo Stakes, a colleague who was at the rocket launch, said Hughes, 64, was killed.
    “It was unsuccessful, and he passed away," Stakes told The Associated Press. He declined further comment.
    Justin Chapman, a freelance journalist, told the AP that he and his wife witnessed the crash.
    The rocket appeared to rub against the launch apparatus, which might have torn the parachutes attached to it, Chapman said.
    The rocket came straight down into the ground, Chapman said.
    According to a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department statement, deputies were called to the event.
    “A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event,” the statement said. The sheriff’s department did not identify the person who died.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/self-styled-d...041546544.html
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  9. #67
    we should send @oyarde on one of these missions, a first for an Injun. GoFundMe anyone?
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  10. #68
    The earth is still not flat. Sorry Mike...
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  12. #70
    Flat earther Mike Hughes dies as home made rocket he is attached to crashes in the desert near Barstow at 1:52 pm Sat .
    Do something Danke

  13. #71
    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    we should send @oyarde on one of these missions, a first for an Injun. GoFundMe anyone?
    In flight missile repairmen is clearly an Air Force job so I am not qualified .
    Do something Danke

  14. #72
    rip
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  16. #73
    San Bernardino Co Sheriff rumored to be investigating ties to Danke .
    Do something Danke

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    In other California news , 5 hospitalized when stung by swarm of 40k Africanized bees outside Howard Johnson near the college in Pasadena . Fire Dept said never such an aggressive or large swarm of African bees had been seen in the area. The hive is in the hotel wall . Is the end near ? Yahoo News headline " Latinos , Sanders secret weapon in Nevada , could make him unstoppable on Super Tue "
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    Do something Danke

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    Yahoo Finance headline " Bernie Sanders possibly running against President Trump is starting to scare investors " .
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  19. #76
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    The earth is still not flat. Sorry Mike...
    But he is...
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  20. #77
    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    But he is...
    Is now..

    and knows better too.
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  21. #78
    Imagine the thoughts that were running through his head when he came to the realization that he about to be flattened like a pancake.
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  22. #79
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    Imagine the thoughts that were running through his head when he came to the realization that he about to be flattened like a pancake.
    Do you think he got up high enough to realize the earth is actually round first?

    Maybe that's why he didn't pull the shoots.
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  23. #80
    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Do you think he got up high enough to realize the earth is actually round first?

    Maybe that's why he didn't pull the shoots.
    Here is an illustrative story I hope most people would not allow themselves to fall into after all they have seen here – Daredevil and Flat Earth theorist “Mad” Mike Hughes dies in rocket crash. He had a parachute on his rocket that was supposed to pop at apogee, and float him back down. It popped a moment after launch and was blown from the rocket by the exhaust, leaving him to follow the trajectory at full speed into the ground. I suspect the reason he died was contained in the story, and by now nobody here would have found themselves in this position. From the story – “The Flat Earth thing is like everything else to me,” Hughes told CBS News in October 2018. “I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.Don’t drop redpolls like that, and then strap yourself to a sabotageable rocket, and fire yourself into the air while it is being videotaped.

    More at: https://www.anonymousconservative.co...comment-340984
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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

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    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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