![]() ![]() The BLM "informed me that they were not going to allow me to do the event there - at least at that location," Hughes said. The Two-Way 'I Don't Believe In Science,' Says Flat-Earther Set To Launch Himself In Own Rocket He said in a YouTube announcement that they'd eventually gotten the launcher fixed - but the small matter of federal permission proved a more serious stumbling block (for now). The launch, which he has billed as a crucial first step toward ultimately photographing our disc-world from space, had been scheduled for Saturday - before the Bureau of Land Management got wind of the plan and barred him from using public land in Amboy, Calif.Īlso, the rocket launcher he had built out of a used motor home "broke down in the driveway" on Wednesday, according to Hughes. "Mad" Mike Hughes, limousine driver and self-proclaimed flat-Earther, announced that he had to delay his plan to launch himself 1,800 feet high in a rocket of his own making. ![]() It appears we will need to wait a while longer to find out whether more than two millennia of thinkers and explorers - from Aristotle and Ferdinand Magellan, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and John Glenn - have been wrong about the shape of the Earth. He had planned to launch himself in his own rocket Saturday in Amboy, Calif., but the Bureau of Land Management put up a significant hurdle to that effort. ![]() The blue sky over the Mojave Desert, untouched by the path of Mike Hughes' rocket. ![]()
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