Mad Mike Hughes just launched himself in a self-made steam-powered rocket and crash landed. Very likely did not survive. #MadMike #MadMikeHughes pic.twitter.com/svtviTEi8f
— Justin Chapman (@justindchapman) February 22, 2020
That thing that came off the rocket a second or so after launch apparently was the parachute.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said its officers were called to a rocket launch event at around 2 p.m. on Saturday. According to KTLA, the sheriff's office said "a man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert."Hughes was trying to get high enough to prove that the Earth is flat.
The sheriff's department did not identify the victim, but Hughes' partner Waldo Stakes, who was at the rocket launch, confirmed to the Associated Press that Hughes was killed. The sheriff's department has been contacted for additional comment.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to do it with a QP of Skywalker instead?
ReplyDeleteClearly, the deep state had something to do with the outcome. Everyone KNOWS the earth is flat. This would have given us the proof. Fffin, Hillary.
ReplyDeleteWatched the documentary last year, and the dude was clearly off his rocker...
ReplyDeleteThat being said, kinda horrifying to see the chute deploy/release at the very start and know he’s now riding a big shell.
Are we certain there were no offspring?
ReplyDeleteWelp, whatever else one wants to say, he DID die trying to prove his point, for better or worse... sigh
ReplyDeleteWell, he proved that SOMETHING was flat... Kinda weird that they let him launch when California won't even let you fly your Estes model rockets except in special designated areas.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Oakland
Bonus points for the demonstration of Newtonian physics in the last 10 or so seconds. GRAVITY, dude, it's a thing.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia bans Estes rockets?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that, and I (and my daughters) have flown them from parks every so often.
Half the time they are lost, though.
I had no idea.
(also, poor dumb soul)
They don't ban them per se, they just make you buy them from local dealers instead of from the company by mail, and they have certain specified places where it's legal to fly them.
ReplyDeleteWe flew them from the back yard anyway, and once a fin fell off and the rocket flew in a huge arc and landed on top of the special ed building of the junior high school, which was stressful as the contrail pointed directly from the scene of the crime to our back yard for about a half hour.
Now days I gather that they're mostly afraid of starting wildfires.
-Doug in Oakland