'Scientist' flies with the rocket to prove ... The earth is flat

Self-taught rocket scientist is called Mike Hughes

Determined to prove, a 61-year-old California scientist made his own rocket and is about to depart with it this weekend.

According to the Washington Post, this "Crazy" self-study rocket scientist, Mike Hughes , has prepared everything necessary for the journey on November 25.

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Mr. Mike Hughes on the homemade rocket - (Photo: FACEBOOK MIKE HUGHES).

In an interview with AP news agency, Mike Hughes was full of confidence in the flight with a missile at a speed of 800km / h and brought him to a height of 548.64m above the Earth's surface.

According to Hughes, this will be the event marking the first phase of an ambitious project to prove his flat Earth theory.

His ultimate goal was to fly the rocket up to the height needed to photograph the Earth's "plate" that humans were residing on. "This will end the view that Earth is spherical , " he said.

These days, Mike Hughes "Crazy" is completing important things before the departure: making final necessary corrections with homemade missiles, preparing costumes for the flight and preparing food to leave Let his 4 cats prevent unexpected incidents.

For many years, Hughes, a former limousine driver, has devoted himself to making a steam-powered rocket from parts collected in a family garage.

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The project made his rocket cost about 20,000 USD.(Photo: MAD MIKE HUGHES).

The project made his rocket cost about 20,000 USD. The first day of testing with this rocket is also the day he will launch with it, November 25. He is expected to fly through the "ghost" town of Amboy of California.

"If you're not afraid to die, you're an idiot," Hughes said. "Death is very frightening, but none of us when we leave this world still live. I like to do unusual things that no one else has done, and no one in human history has ever designed or assembled. assembled and directly launched on the missiles created by themselves ".

In fact, Mr. Hughes is not a " completely unnamed" engineer . Guinness World Records website said on September 28, 2002 he set a record in the " jump" category the longest distance, 31.39m, in a 3-ton Lincoln Town Car limousine in California, USA .

According to Ars Technica, Hughes has been focusing on rockets for many years, although the results are not yet clear.


The video recorded Mr. Hughes's launch with the 2014 rocket - (Source: NEEDMOREWINE / YOUTUBE).

In 2014 he built his first rocket and then flew to the sky in the Winkelman area of ​​Arizona, USA.

The video of Hughes' missile launch showed that the flight ended with him being pulled from a rocket and injuries that forced him to be in a wheelchair for the next two weeks.

The flight in 2014 was only about a quarter of Hughes' expected distance to fly on November 25.

Update 18 December 2018
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