Watch This Flat Earther Launch 600m In His Homemade Rocket For “Research”

Although infamous flat earther Mad Mike Hughes didn’t blast himself quite high enough in his homemade rocket to prove that the earth is, in fact, shaped like a frisbee, his mission is still being labelled as a success.

Seeing as though he made it 600m off the ground in his DIY contraption AND survived the fall back to earth, I think it’s fair to claim success on this one. Let’s give him that.

61-year-old Mad Mike has been attempting to launch his homemade rocket for months now but has had a few false starts due to legalities and “technical difficulties”. On Saturday afternoon in the Californian Mohave desert, we had lift off.

And damn. Mike’s steam-powered rocket, bearing the words “RESEARCH FLAT EARTH” across it, managed to blast 600 metres into the air and hit a top speed of 560km/h before…falling. Luckily Hughes had two parachutes and he made it back to the ground before leaving on a stretcher in an ambulance.

Check out Mike’s launch “success” in this vid and let’s give this guy a round of applause tbh.

After landing, Hughes told the AP ‘‘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,’’ he said.

‘‘At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight.’’

Cheers to that.

His ultimate goal is to blast himself over 80km into Earth’s orbit to get a real good look at things and prove that the planet is flat, for real. As we learned from the Flat Earth International Conference, these flat-earthers are dead serious. Mad Mike has also expressed interest in running for governor soooooooo there’s that to look forward to as well.