VehicleMad Mike Hughes dead after crash landing steam powered rocket

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[–]HopeThatHalps 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It looks like the parachute that was supposed to deploy detached right at launch.

[–]JamesHamilton 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

2020 Darwin Award.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

He was a "dare devil" though, does it still count?

[–]ReincarnatedByrney 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

he's still an idiot he died in an idiotic way so yeah

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So dare devils deserve Darwin awards before their dead, is what I'm hearing.

[–]ReincarnatedByrney 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Then you aren't very smart

[–]SpudMckenzie 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'd like to see some extended before and after footage of this not-so-disturbing incident.

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He's done this type of stunt several times before. The videos are on youtube. Just search for Mad Mike Hughes.

[–]SubSaharanBeast 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Killed trying to prove the Earth is flat. https://www.newsweek.com/daredevil-mike-hughes-rocket-crash-1488622?amp=1

[–]stilldrifting 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

The Earth is definitely flatter now after that crash, such a shame that he died trying to prove an insane theory already known to be false.

RIP Mike, you lived a wild life right to the end ...

[–]Jaylou 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

From his Wiki page: Following Hughes' death, Darren Shuster, his public relations representative, stated: "We used flat Earth as a PR stunt... Flat Earth allowed us to get so much publicity that we kept going! I know he didn’t believe in flat Earth and it was a schtick." But who knows!

[–]HopeThatHalps 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think the flat earth talk was just his way of turning back the clock a hundred and fifty years, to a time when steam engines were relevant and rockets were novel.

[–]SubSaharanBeast 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

And a time when parachutes didn’t exist.

[–]RedditSaidit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute#Early_Renaissance

[–]said 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Earth: No Mike, YOU are flat!

[–]anescient[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Anybody got other video on this? Looks like there's a drone out there.

[–]u2892 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hope the bodycam footage was recovered

[–]CockMeatSandwich 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

R.I.P to this dude but what the hell was he thinking? This was basically just suicide with extra steps. Did he really think he’d prove the earth was flat by sending himself 1000 feet in the air? You could’ve stood on the Empire State Building for the same result.

[–]aboutthednm 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Jesus fuck, I don't see any way this could have ended well at all.

[–]Burnthewitch 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The ol challenger rocket cosplay. A classic.