Mike Hughes: RIP on this flat planet
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:22 am
Perhaps some Remember Mike Hughes, who in 2018 launched himself in a rocket to prove the earth was flat?
He was working on a show for the Science Channel about people trying to reach space on the cheap. The Science Channel didn't get a series, they got a snuff film. As his steam powered rocket went up, a parachute with no one attached to it ejected as the rocket ascended. After about a thousand feet the rocket stopped, and then plunged, in a nose-first dive straight into the ground. It must have been horrifying to witness.
In thinking about this, I must admit I indulged in a bit of smug schadenfreude. I saw the guy as a flat-earth Evel Knievel. But the fact that his latest venture was being documented by the 'Science' Channel? It's a reality show about a wack job that cost him his life.
It's like a reality show about extreme plastic surgery, or the Scream Queen mothers of Junior Miss Talent Show contestants, or Honey Boo Boo. The shows exist so that we may look at the people and feel superior to them.
He was working on a show for the Science Channel about people trying to reach space on the cheap. The Science Channel didn't get a series, they got a snuff film. As his steam powered rocket went up, a parachute with no one attached to it ejected as the rocket ascended. After about a thousand feet the rocket stopped, and then plunged, in a nose-first dive straight into the ground. It must have been horrifying to witness.
In thinking about this, I must admit I indulged in a bit of smug schadenfreude. I saw the guy as a flat-earth Evel Knievel. But the fact that his latest venture was being documented by the 'Science' Channel? It's a reality show about a wack job that cost him his life.
It's like a reality show about extreme plastic surgery, or the Scream Queen mothers of Junior Miss Talent Show contestants, or Honey Boo Boo. The shows exist so that we may look at the people and feel superior to them.