However, the rocket's parachute deployed early, slowing the rocket and causing it to crash back into the California desert. FebruOn March 24, 2018, 'Mad' Mike Hughes launched himself from the ground on a homemade rocket near Amboy, California.

Mr Hughes, 64, was hoping to reach an altitude of 5,000 feet to prove his theory. In 2020, flat-Earther 'Mad' Mike Hughes set out to prove the world was flat by shooting himself high enough to see if the planet curved in a home-made, steam-powered rocket. Other flat-Earthers have paid far greater prices in their attempts to prove the world is flat. Luckily for the flat-Earther in the video, all the experiment cost him was his pride and some cognitive dissonance.

Unfortunately, the experience did not ultimately sway the flat-Earther to reconsider his position, and he remained an adherent after the documentary was released. 'Interesting,' the flat-Earther says, unable to find a way to undermine the evidence he had just collected.

Naturally, since the Earth is round, the second light is completely obscured by the hole. In the video, the flat-Earther conducts his experiment and reviews the footage he filmed. If the earth is round, the second, more distant hole, should slightly cover the light, accounting for the curvature of the Earth. Here's the theory: if the earth is actually flat, the camera - aimed so that its viewfinder is centred on the holes in the boards - should be able to perfectly record the torch, without any occlusion, when its lifted.

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