We definitely saw this coming.

Home brew astronaut bought the farm.


https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/22/us/science-channel-mike-hughes-dead/index.html

 

So the flat earther is now flat.

 

Video of it in the YouTube thread.

 

Lawn dart

 

I just watched the video of it on a Newsweek section. The parachute was ripped off when he was probably less that a couple hundred feet off the ground, right after launch. Nose first into the ground......Wow!

 

All I can picture is this.

 

Turns out you do need to be a rocket scientist.

 

I just read one report that said he was ejected from the rocket and fell to his death.

 

Well, yeah . . . that report fits what’s in the YouTube video thread.

 

Not even rocket surgery could bring him back.

 

Proving once again, Darwin knew what he was talking about.

 

The first picture showing him working on his rocket with two hammers , one in each hand tells you all you need to know about this story

 

Well I'm just shocked.

 

Rocket man =

 

Didn't watch the video yet, but at any point in the recording were the following words uttered?

"Here, hold my beer...."



EDIT: just watched the vid. It's interesting, the small crowd of onlookers reaction to his imminent death sounds more like what you'd expect to hear at a frat party when one of the brothers dives from a second story window to crash through the beer pong table in the front yard on a drunken dare/bet.

 

Poor guy. So, I guess that next loss is cancelled?

 

I gotta say, the first ten or so comments in this thread were all fantastic.

Kudos to you gentlemen for making me LOL several times this morning.

 

So his chute somehow opened at launch?
This folks is why they banned real lawn darts. When they say gonna send it the descend parts pretty important as well.

 

And people were looking at me funny for a mild comment on Steve Irwin a decade after the fact.

 

Last name was Hughs, not von Braun.