Mad Mike ..Flat Earther Extraordinaire

[bigjoe]

Poor Ol Mad Mike ..an O ring this time?..Saboteurs?

https://www.livescience.com/61653-mad-mike-hughes-launch-fail.html?utm_source=notification

So many people are interested in Frump, but I think Mad Mike is far more amusing..esp his latest escapades.

bigjoe

[Ric]

It's those blooming round Earth conspiracy theorists again.

Thwarting his plans. ;) :D

[ZeroID]

More large sums of money to repair and delays for testing and ......... He's onto a good thing there. Anyone for a sweep stake to see how long it last before he gets rumbled ? :P

[LewisM]

Not that I particularly care, but I doubt anyone ever did any CoG/CoT calculations on that contraption.

Even looking at it, it appears to me it is going to tumble end over end...should be a disastrously funny yet fatal finale for Mad Mike IF it ever launches.

[Shano592]

People in the comments section are complaining about him getting so much air time. I think these kind of guys need more! I need a daily fix.

The guy needs a daily blog.

[mynameiscd]

I thought there were no V2s left after ww2
I bet the payload is more explosive than the originals.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/xanadu55/V-2.html

[xelasnave]

Get Myth Busters to fix it so he can make his trip...
Alex

[Shano592]

Weight it down at the back with 50kg of Semtex. That should keep it pointing up!

[Shano592]

Well, good news for those silently watching...

Mad Mike is back in the news.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/i-think-its-gonna-be-a-long-long-time-before-this-guy-gets-to-space/news-story/4b1faa812f8a0849d624dee2b12a7019

[glend]

At least he got enough altitude for the shutes to work and he survived. Captain Risky would be jealous.

[inline_online]

Sure, the guy is a nutter. No arguments there.
But he did build and successfully launch a rocket and return safely. I'd shake his hand and buy him a beer for that alone.

[el_draco]

Could'a got higher hang-gliding, hell just parachuting! Cheaper to Y'all... !
Yehaa! Dang that thar landin was like fallin off the back of a truck!
Chicooorie auto-cat! :rofl::rofl:

[LewisM]

He wouldn't have seen the curvature of his forehead at that altitude, let alone any curvature of the oblate spheroid we live on.

FAIL.

Yeah, he launched himself - ALMOST horizontally. At least it did NOT tumble as I expected it to.