Flat Earther Plans To Launch Himself In A Homemade Rocket

“Mad” Mike Hughes, 61, limousine driver, plans to launch himself in a homemade rocket. He has spent the last few years, working on his steam powered, self proclaimed rocket. His red coloured rust bucket, built using scrap metal screams out the words “Research Flat Earth”.

The first launch in January 2014 at Winkelman, Arizona where he travelled 1,374 feet and the Gravitational force had him incapacitated for weeks.

The Flat Earther also holds a Guinness World Record for a limousine jump in 2002.

Hughes plans on entertaining us this weekend, launching himself high into the air. He wants to prove that the Earth is flat secretly wishing the Gravitational force ignores his launch.

Despite his engineering skills, Hughes says he doesn’t 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.

Science says, at extremely fast velocities, the air around would heat so much that it would form super hot plasma. At such high speeds would cause a vortex that would suck everything in its path. Science fiction praises the flash, stating that he is faster than light. He does not end up burning people or causing plasma tornadoes.

So, basically according to Hughes, when 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 him a total of $ 20,000, which 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, has leased Hughes a five acre land in Apple Valley, California where The Flat Earther has his self proclaimed rocket constructed. 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 Earth believer 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 theory about the earth being round was a lie.

The theory about the earth not being flat started with Pythagoras (500 BC), Aristarchus (350 BC) 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 sun and the moon, he might have come up with a decent conclusion. Maybe we should ask him to observe an eclipse, or maybe visit the beach sometimes. This could save him from spilling money down the drain and also drive him into more useful chores.