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Is it too soon to start collecting whatever watch Mad Mike wore?

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RIP, Mad Mike. No disrespect intended to Mr. Hughes. He was a little kooky, flat-earther, etc, but he did have a pair.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/22/us/science-channel-mike-hughes-dead/index.html
I haven't seen any report of how high his rocket made it this time.
Only one- that he landed about a half-mile from the launch pad.

On a previous flight he reached 1875 feet, which is a long way from outer space but still a lot higher than most would-be astronauts ever get.

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Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hughes_(daredevil) it looks like all his launches had problems; his most successful flight had parachute deployment issues too, though it deployed well enough to break most of the fall.

Space is hard 馃檨

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For the 2018 launch, deployment was fine. The main chute wasn't slowing him enough, so he went to his backup. Which also deployed fine, but also wasn't slowing quite enough. Still, "good enough" to survive.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...es-rocket-launch-man-blasts-off-a8272761.html

Looks like, for the last flight BOTH primary and secondary chutes failed. I can't imagine he would have relied on only one.
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Silenced by the government!
(No prob not, but that鈥檚 what he would have wanted folks to say IMO)
 
Stufflers Mom
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Who?

He was made from the same kind of stuff as Timothy Treadwell, who actually didn't "tread well" at the end of the day.
 
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He was made from the same kind of stuff as Timothy Treadwell, who actually didn't "tread well" at the end of the day.

That's a name I know. So ...

Mike Hughes:Rocket::Timothy Treadwell:Grizzly bear
 
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Dan S Dan S
That's a name I know. So ...

Mike Hughes:Rocket::Timothy Treadwell:Grizzly bear

Both went out doing what they loved most, how many of us will get to do that.
 
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Both went out doing what they loved most, how many of us will get to do that.

That's true, but when the time comes (no rush BTW), I wouldn't mind just dying of a massive heart attack in my sleep. 馃槈
 
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That's true, but when the time comes (no rush BTW), I wouldn't mind just dying of a massive heart attack in my sleep. 馃槈

I know what you are saying, it's just we don't really get the choose.
 
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So he wanted to get up high enough to prove that the earth is flat or not? He couldn't rely on the information we've acquired over the decades?
 
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Darwin Award candidate ... front runner. Looks like he lost the chutes at launch. Painful to watch. Honestly I have no patience with flat earth believers or folks who believe the planet is 6000 years old or .......
 
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I'm guessing it was a Bremont MB2
Where do you see that?
In all the stills and video I can find, he's either wearing long sleeves or bare wrists.
Actually, hardly any of his collaborators / crew seem to wear visible watches either.
 
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So he wanted to get up high enough to prove that the earth is flat or not? He couldn't rely on the information we've acquired over the millennia?

FIFY
 
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Where do you see that?
In all the stills and video I can find, he's either wearing long sleeves or bare wrists.
Actually, hardly any of his collaborators / crew seem to wear visible watches either.
I'm thinking it was a ejection seat reference?

have fun
kfw

Edit...or lack of.
 
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Space is hard 馃檨

Not as hard as the ground.

Now he鈥檚 really a flat earther.

(For context: I鈥檝e very little sympathy for a guy who put himself at mortal risk to build his own rocket precisely because he didn鈥檛 trust people who could actually build rockets.)
 
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Upon further reading, I can't believe that some producer at the Discover Channel was willing to bring a crew to document what they must have known would likely be a fatal incident. I mean, how many successful, manned amateur rocket launches have there been to date?
 
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Upon further reading, I can't believe that some producer at the Discover Channel was willing to bring a crew to document what they must have known would likely be a fatal incident. I mean, how many successful, manned amateur rocket launches have there been to date?

To say nothing of him doing it because/being the king of flat earthers? What next, Discovery channel reality show of Christian scientist families watching their kids die because they don鈥檛 believe in doctors?
 
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"We got the bubble headed bleach blonde who comes on at five she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. Its interesting when people die..."

Apologies to Don Henley.

Have fun. Just leave rocket science to the rocket scientists.

kfw
 
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