Mad Mike Hughes, science denier, to fly steam rocket over ghost town

[essentialsaltes]

Hughes is a 61-year-old limo driver who’s spent the last few years building a steam-powered rocket out of salvage parts in his garage.

His first test of the rocket will also be the launch date — Saturday , when he straps into his homemade contraption and attempts to hurtle over the ghost town of Amboy, California. He will travel about a mile at a speed of roughly 500 mph.

“I don’t believe in science,” said Hughes, whose main sponsor for the rocket is Research Flat Earth. “I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”

If he gets in that contraption and fires it off, I wish him the best of luck.

 

[Freodin]

"But that’s not science, that’s just a formula."

Well, last thursday, when I was driving my limo down Cuckoo Lane, I found this formula. Poor little thing... I had to take it in and apply it.

Great. Someone who hasn't the slightest idea about science trying to teach others about it.
I sincerely hope he doesn't blow himself up.

 

[AV1611VET]

If he gets in that contraption and fires it off, I wish him the best of luck.

That non-scientist probably has more safety features intact than NASA did with Apollo 1, with its hatch that opened outward.

 

[HitchSlap]

That non-scientist probably has more safety features intact than NASA did with Apollo 1, with its hatch that opened outward.

Avlogic: Limo driver knows more about space travel, than qualified engineers and astrophysicists. Seems legit.

 

[AV1611VET]

Avlogic: Limo driver knows more about space travel, than qualified engineers and astrophysicists. Seems legit.

At least he doesn't fill his gas tank with Hydrogen ... or does he?

 

[durangodawood]

Wow. There's a seemingly never ending supplies of dummies out there.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Wow. There's a seemingly never ending supplies of dummies out there.

Well, it's clearly a huge publicity stunt, so he's no doubt counting on a lot of dummies out there to sign up for his PPV event... even if nothing happens.

 

[AV1611VET]

Well, last thursday,

Did you catch that?

 

[JackRT]

He sounds like a prime candidate for the Darwin awards.

 

[JackRT]

That non-scientist probably has more safety features intact than NASA did with Apollo 1, with its hatch that opened outward.

An inward opening hatch takes up valuable interior space. This is the reason that closet and cabinet doors do not open inward.

 

[Speedwell]

Well, it's clearly a huge publicity stunt, so he's no doubt counting on a lot of dummies out there to sign up for his PPV event... even if nothing happens.

Why sign up? If the event is as "spectacular" as seems likely, it will be on the evening news.

 

[JackRT]

He just might be shut down as a hazard to air navigation if no flight plan is filed.

 

[AV1611VET]

An inward opening hatch takes up valuable interior space. This is the reason that closet and cabinet doors do not open inward.

Yes, but when used on a space capsule, I'm sure Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White would have appreciated an exception.

 

[ihnoa]

You disgust me.

 

[essentialsaltes]

That non-scientist probably has more safety features intact than NASA did with Apollo 1, with its hatch that opened outward.

You've got your facts backward. Not that it'll matter.

 

[AV1611VET]

You disgust me.

No, I didn't.

I've never met you.

 

[AV1611VET]

You've got your facts backward.

How so?

 

[essentialsaltes]

The Apollo 1 door opened inward. It was designed as a 'plug door' like you often seen on aircraft, so that the pressure of the air inside kept the door sealed and closed out in space. Unfortunately, the fire raised the pressure inside much higher than atmospheric pressure, making it difficult or impossible to open.

 

[AV1611VET]

The Apollo 1 door opened inward. It was designed as a 'plug door' like you often seen on aircraft, so that the pressure of the air inside kept the door sealed and closed out in space. Unfortunately, the fire raised the pressure inside much higher than atmospheric pressure, making it difficult or impossible to open.

Thanks for the correction!

 

[Michael]

He sounds like a prime candidate for the Darwin awards.

I was thinking the same thing.