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California man to launch homemade rocket to prove Earth is flat

In this Nov. 15, 2017, photograph, daredevil/limousine driver Mad Mike Hughes is shown with with his steam=powered rocket constructed out of salvage parts on a five-acre property that he leases in Apple Valley, Cal. Hughes plans to launch his homemade contraption on Saturday near the ghost town of Amboy, Cal., at a speed of roughly 500 miles-per-hour. (Waldo Stakes/HO courtesy of Mad Mike Hughes via AP)

In this Nov. 15, 2017, photograph, daredevil/limousine driver Mad Mike Hughes is shown with with his steam=powered rocket constructed out of salvage parts on a five-acre property that he leases in Apple Valley, Cal. Hughes plans to launch his homemade contraption on Saturday near the ghost town of Amboy, Cal., at a speed of roughly 500 miles-per-hour. (Waldo Stakes/HO courtesy of Mad Mike Hughes via AP)
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By Breaking News Staff
Nov 23, 2017
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A California man is planning to take a 500 mph flight in a homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat.

Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limousine driver, plans to launch himself 1,800 feet and fly one mile over the Mojave Desert in his rocket made from scrap metal, according to the Washington Post.

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He said his ultimate goal is a launch miles above Earth where he hopes to photograph proof the Earth is flat. He has never tested this rocket.

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"It'll shut the door on this ball Earth," Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday's flight.

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In 2014, Hughes was injured when he flew a quarter of a mile in his first manned rocket. He was dragged from the remains of the rocket and had to use a walker for two weeks, he said.

Many believers envision the Earth is a flat disc ringed by sea ice, which naturally holds the oceans in, according to the Washington Post. What's beyond the sea ice, if anything, remains to be discovered.

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