Flat Earther attempts to prove Earth isn’t round, blasts off in homemade rocket
“Mad Mike” Hughes, a self-taught rocket engineer and firm Flat Earth believer, blasted off in his homemade steam-powered rocket in order to prove that the Earth is shaped “like a frisbee” before landing quite quickly in the Mojave Desert. The rocket, which reportedly cost $20,000, propelled itself upwards for about 4 seconds before the parachutes […]