Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
February 23, 2020
History will remember his glorious sacrifice.
Daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes died Saturday when a homemade rocket he was attached to launched but quickly dove to earth in the California desert.
The stunt was apparently part of a forthcoming television show, “Homemade Astronauts,” that was scheduled to debut later this year on Discovery Inc.’s Science Channel.
Discovery confirmed the 64-year-old’s death in a statement.
“It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey,” the company said.
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Hughes is known both for his homemade rockets and for his belief the earth is flat.
His desire to prove the planet is “shaped like a Frisbee” inspired his vertical endeavors, he has said. But Saturday’s launch did not appear to be directly tied to Hughes’ flat-earth argument.
In 2018, he successfully launched himself about 1,875 feet into the sky above the Mojave desert via a garage-made rocket.
His landing that year was softened when he deployed a parachute. In social media video of Saturday’s accident, a parachute-like swath of fabric can be seen flying away from the rocket shortly after blast-off.
“This thing wants to kill you 10 different ways,” Hughes said in 2018. “This thing will kill you in a heartbeat.”
It’s not so much a heartbeat as it is the time it takes you to fall 2,000 feet out of the sky and hit the ground, which I suspect is quite a few heartbeats. Your heart is probably beating pretty fast during that drop.
Ah, but at least he finally proved that the earth is flat.
Now, no one can deny it any longer.