California male dies in rocket pile-up after rising to see if Earth is flat

A California male who pronounced he wanted to fly to a corner of outdoor space to see for himself if a universe is turn has died after his home-built rocket bloody off into a dried sky and plunged behind to earth.

“Mad” Mike Hughes was killed on Saturday afternoon after his rocket crashed on private skill nearby Barstow, Calif.

Waldo Stakes, a co-worker who was during a rocket launch, pronounced Hughes, 64, was killed.

The Science Channel pronounced on Twitter it had been chronicling Hughes’s tour and that “thoughts prayers go out to his family friends during this formidable time.”

“It was always his dream to do this launch,” a Twitter summary said.

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Hughes was also a limousine motorist who hold a Guinness universe record for “longest limousine ramp jump,” for jumping 31 metres in a Lincoln Town Car widen limousine, during a speedway in 2002.

A video on TMZ.com showed a rocket holding off with what appears to be a parachute ripping off during a launch. The steam-powered rocket streaks upward, afterwards takes around 10 seconds to tumble true behind to earth. Shrieks can be listened as a rocket plows into a desert.

Freelance publisher Justin Chapman, who was during a scene, pronounced a rocket seemed to massage opposite a launch apparatus, that competence have caused a problem with a parachute.

In Mar 2018, Hughes propelled himself about 570 metres into a air. He deployed one parachute and afterwards a second one, though he still had a tough alighting in a Mojave Desert in California and harmed his back.

“This thing wants to kill we 10 opposite ways,” Hughes pronounced after that launch. “This thing will kill we in a heartbeat.”

‘I don’t wish to take anyone else’s word for it’

He pronounced in a video that his idea was to eventually fly to a corner of outdoor space to establish for himself either a universe is round.

“I don’t wish to take anyone else’s word for it,” he pronounced in a video, posted on a BBC News website. “I don’t know if a universe is prosaic or round.”

In another video posted on his YouTube site, Hughes pronounced he also wanted “to remonstrate people they can do things that are unusual with their lives.”

“My story unequivocally is incredible,” Hughes once told The Associated Press. “It’s got a garland of story lines — a garage-built thing. I’m an comparison guy. It’s out in a center of nowhere, and a Flat Earth. The problem is it brings out all a nuts also.”

Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mike-hughes-1.5473529?cmp=rss