Daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes died on Saturday after an attempt to rocket himself 5,000 feet in the air went wrong. He was 64. Hughes built a steam powered rocket with his partner Waldo Stakes for a show the Science Channel was filming called Homemade Astronauts. A freelance journalist, Justin Chapman, who was at the launch […]
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- 3/1/2020
- by Marie Fiero
- Uinterview
On Saturday, 64-year-old “Mad” Mike Hughes was killed when a rocket he was attached to crashed in the desert in San Bernardino County, California. Hughes was a member of the Flat Earth community, a subculture consisting of people who (despite all scientific evidence pointing squarely to the contrary) believe that the Earth is not round, but flat. In numerous interviews, he had stated that the goal of his rocket launches was to prove that the planet was not spherical (as, again, all scientific evidence indicates), but “Frisbee-shaped.”
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- 2/24/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
“Mad Mike” Hughes, an amateur engineer, daredevil and “Flat Earth” conspiracy theorist whose beliefs pushed him to prove it with homemade rockets, died Saturday when his steam-powered rocket crashed shortly after takeoff outside Barstow, California.
Hughes was among the subjects in the upcoming Science Channel series Homemade Astronauts. “Michael ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes tragically passed away today during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket,” the Science Channel confirmed Saturday. “Our thoughts & prayers go out to his family & friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this...
Hughes was among the subjects in the upcoming Science Channel series Homemade Astronauts. “Michael ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes tragically passed away today during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket,” the Science Channel confirmed Saturday. “Our thoughts & prayers go out to his family & friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this...
- 2/23/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
It’s the middle of the week and I bet you Shockya readers need a pick me up to get you through the rest of hump day and the two work days ahead. I have got just the cure for your Wednesday blues thanks to the tunes from Citadel, which is the music project of Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist and producer, Justin Chapman. Chapman formed Citadel as a collaborative effort with several of Philadelphia’s most prominent singers and songwriters, such as Lucy Stone, Will Lindsay and Geoff Vanover. The creative “outfit” dropped their self-titled Ep on May 7th and you can stream it in its entirety on Artist Direct. The four song Ep [ Read More ]
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- 5/15/2013
- by lonnie
- ShockYa
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