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

  1. pseikotick Feb 24, 2020

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  2. vbrad26 Feb 24, 2020

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    At least he died doing something he was passionate about.
     
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  3. timecube Feb 24, 2020

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    :(
    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.

    Edited:
    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 :(

    Edited again:
    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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  4. 140dave Feb 24, 2020

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    Silenced by the government!
    (No prob not, but that’s what he would have wanted folks to say IMO)
     
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  5. Dan S Feb 24, 2020

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    Who?
     
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  6. Stufflers Mom Feb 24, 2020

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    I'm guessing it was a Bremont MB2
     
  7. Stufflers Mom Feb 24, 2020

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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.
     
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  8. Dan S Feb 24, 2020

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

    Mike Hughes:Rocket::Timothy Treadwell:Grizzly bear
     
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  9. Stufflers Mom Feb 24, 2020

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    Both went out doing what they loved most, how many of us will get to do that.
     
  10. Dan S Feb 24, 2020

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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. ;)
     
  11. Stufflers Mom Feb 24, 2020

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    I know what you are saying, it's just we don't really get the choose.
     
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  12. blufinz52 Hears dead people, not watch rotors. Feb 24, 2020

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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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  13. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Feb 24, 2020

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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 .......
     
  14. timecube Feb 24, 2020

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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.
     
  15. Dsloan Feb 24, 2020

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    FIFY
     
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  16. time flies Feb 24, 2020

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    I'm thinking it was a ejection seat reference?

    have fun
    kfw

    Edit...or lack of.
     
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  17. cvalue13 Feb 24, 2020

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    Not as hard as the ground.

    Now he’s really a flat earther.

    (For context: I’ve very little sympathy for a guy who put himself at mortal risk to build his own rocket precisely because he didn’t trust people who could actually build rockets.)
     
  18. Dsloan Feb 24, 2020

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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?
     
  19. cvalue13 Feb 24, 2020

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    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’t believe in doctors?
     
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  20. time flies Feb 24, 2020

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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