Daredevil 'Mad Mike' Hughes Dies During Attempt To Launch Homemade Rocket

So he didn’t have a reservation chute?

I guess he should have left the rocket ignition and parachute on the same stage. He didn't play enough Kerbal Space Program.

At least he fell flat

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He was a delutional flat earther. Its sad that he died. Whats even sadder is none of his family or friends stopped him.

Check your staging bro! Cant tell you how many times i have done this in K.S.P.

R.I.P mad mike

Lol y’all saying he’s stupid don’t realize he built a rocket lmao where are you’re rockets?

he forgot to check his staging rip

At least he had the courage to test his theory. Much respect and R.I.P. Mike.

Poor man, he was just stupid, he wasnt a bad man :(

As many people says, STUPIDITY at it's finest.

the guy was 64. he may have felt that at his age that he had little to lose. maybe he felt that if he died trying he would at least go in the history books as one of the first amateurs to attempt going to space. much like Christopher Columbus got in the history books for his dangerous expedition. only difference is Columbus survived.

he was not ejected from anything and fell to his death he piledrived in at 200mph still sitting inside. He was nice guy and I talked at length with him next to his rocket and most certainly did not think the earth was flat. No mention of that was made until well after the rocket and he then started getting funding by using that theme. He was a daredevil and engineer and showman who like the notoriety.

Well this sounds like good news

Gives more respect to call him Daredevil Mad Mike than the title other outlets used. This is just so sad. I wish somebody would've paid for his ticket rather than this happening.
The man was a literal rocket scientist and people can't look past their little ideologies to respect the dead.

Natural selection ended his stupid career.

Scoff if you will but there's no denying the impression Mike left on this world.

Fallout New Vegas' mission "Come fly with me"

"Daredevil?" You misspelled "moron."

Unnecessarily death. :/ my model rockets parachute doesn't open 30% of. The time. Would I fly it? No.. Unless it has eject seat.

He was lucky the first time. so let's do it again

Rest in pieces

And the roadrunner wins again......

fake evil kneivel chute gag.....

I wonder how his body looks

Oh shute

What a scary way to die. It is amazing that he created his own rocket though.

natural selection

I don't feel bad for him, have you ever heard about natural selection??

Dude died
Roadrunner style

So sorry for the man. He believed in what he believed. He should have also thought that if the earth was flat, one country, say Russia, China, or any of those countries with capabilities to fly rockets and space stations, could have raced against each other to tell the world and presented evidence to win the heart of humankind and be the sole great nation of the universe.

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I suspect this man never believed in flat earth. But used that angle to hype his stunts. Afterall, would anyone really care if he was just some guy riding rockets? And hey, clicks and views from haters are still clicks and views.

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본인이 직접 이세상의 진실을 보려했다.

If there was an actual launch and flight where the video?

RIP Mike. You'll always have a place in our hearts and the Guinness Book of Fucking Retards.

Another life wasted..

Who says flat earth nonsense is harmless?

He didn't get a ejected from the rocket after the parachute fail. Man I swear these new stations are as dumb as rocks.

I can’t stop laughing. Like how dumb can somebody be

For the record, Mad Mike was not a flat earther. He wanted to go to space. But he found out that a great way to finance it would be by adopting the persona of a flat earther.

"Close to space as possible" lmao he couldn't have been farther

Give the man a Darwin Award!

I would have rather enjoyed watching the onboard video of his last flight

“…ejected afterward and fell to his death…”
Huh? Anybody? I didn’t see any ejection.

He seemed like a down to earth kinda guy!😁

Play moronic games, win your one and only Darwin Award.

Well, I guess he did prove the earth is a bit flat on impact. LOL

What I don’t understand though is if the earth was truly flat as he believed, why not simply take your rocket to the edge of the flat earth and launch it from there so you could quickly fly around and see both sides of your flat earth??? 😀

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WHY DID YOU STOP IT? I WANTED TO SEE HOW IT ENDED.
He was no doubt the kind of clown who was totally against any kind of federal regulation. Five safety checks would have helped.

He wasn't ejected. How did they muck that up?