Or something.Īnyway, it seems one of the issues with this latest launch is that the images of Musk’s Tesla Roadster from space didn’t show any other satellites or the International Space Station (ISS). Previously The Flat Earth Society (the first one not the other one) told Musk that it thinks Mars is round, whereas Earth is flat. I don’t quite get all the Musk hate to be honest. “Elon Musk just pulls crap out of his butt on a weekly basis.” Fake launch. Video of the otherwise impressive achievement below.“Okay officially, Elon Musk, anything that man says is an outright lie,” one speaker, Mark Sargent, said to an agreeable crowd during one of the talks. "This thing will kill you in a heartbeat.”īut the hard landing didn’t kill him, so perhaps that’s not the last we get to hear about the man-who-believes-the-Earth-is-flat-and-wants-to-prove-it.Īfter all, despite the successful launch, Hughes didn’t get high enough to see for himself the flatness of the world we live in. "This thing wants to kill you ten different ways," said Hughes according to ABC News. Even so, the impact was enough to make quite an impression. As the rocket descended too fast, Hughes had to pull not one, but two parachutes in order to shed some speed. According to the wannabe space-man, the rocket traveled at speeds of some 560 km/h (348 mph) before gravity overcame it and started dragging it back down.Īnd that was the biggest problem, apparently. It propelled the flat-earther to over 570 meters in the air (1,870 feet), and then came back down. Some 320 kilometers east of Los Angeles (200 miles), Hughes managed to get himself airborne this weekend, after getting permission from a private citizen to use his land as launch-landing pad.Īmazingly, the garage-built, DIY-rocket performed pretty much as designed. Then, on his second attempt, a malfunctioning O-ring prevented him from taking off at 500 mph and revealing to the world people live on a pancake, and not on a ball. As you might remember, the 61-year old tried to achieve a similar feat in the wake of Falcon Heavy’s launch in February, but his attempt was hindered by the Governor, the Tax Board, all the legal department for the Tax Board, and the attorney general, and senator Kamala Harris, all from California.
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