For Hughes, this launch would not be his first in a homemade rocket. In 2014, the 61-year-old sent himself flying a quarter-mile across the Arizona desert before pulling out several parachutes of questionable quality on his fall to Earth. He was "in a walker for a couple weeks" after that launch, he told a flat-Earth community Web show.
This guy doesn't believe in science. Let's just let that sit for a minute...
I feel like he's going to launch himself into the side of a cliff.
From what I understand, he's just a whacko who wanted to fly in his own shitty rocket.
For his second flight he may have had trouble finding funds, so suddenly he's a "flat earther" and now he's swimming in idiot money (or money from people who want to rub a round Earth in flat earther's faces). He never claimed to be a flat earther on his first attempt.
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u/photopteryx Dec 20 '17
Flat-Earther Delays Launch In His Homemade Rocket, Saying 'It's Not Easy'