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Flat earther launches rocket1/8/2024 to Windsor or the other way around, assuming he couldn't get permission for a similar crossing from south of Ottawa into New York State. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.In January 2015, he told The Detroit News of his goal to soar above the Detroit River, either U.S. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. "I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. "I don’t believe in science," Hughes said, according to the AP. If so, his own words probably won't do much to bring you around. Hughes' refusal to accept the truth about Earth's shape might make you skeptical about Saturday's launch, and about the future rockoon project. He and a collaborator have discussed building a "rockoon" - a rocket that launches after being carried aloft by a balloon - that could get up to an altitude of 68 miles (109 km), the AP reported. Saturday's liftoff won't get Hughes nearly high enough to gather any photographic evidence about our planet's shape - which is an oblate spheroid, by the way - but such a mission may be in Mad Mike's future. Hughes buys into the flat-Earth conspiracy theory, according to the AP indeed, the rocket's chief sponsor is a group called Research Flat Earth. (Hughes will make a parachute-aided touchdown.) If all goes according to plan, the contraption will accelerate to a top speed of 500 mph (800 km/h) and travel about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) away from the launch site, a ghost town called Amboy. The daredevil, 61-year-old limo driver "Mad" Mike Hughes, built the rocket and its launch ramp himself for about $20,000, according to the AP.
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