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   From: Zorro@zor.ro   
      
   On 2/24/20 6:06 AM, JAB wrote:   
   > Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Killed In Crash Of Homemade Rocket   
   >   
   > The daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes was killed in a rocket launch gone   
   > wrong Saturday in Barstow, Calif., two witnesses to the accident   
   > confirmed. He was 64.   
   >   
   > It was the third launch for Hughes in one of his homemade rockets and   
   > part of his eventual plan to be able to determine for himself, up in   
   > the sky, if the Earth was as flat as he proclaimed to believe.   
   >   
   > https://www.npr.org/2020/02/23/808645524/daredevil-mad-mike-hu   
   hes-killed-in-crash-of-homemade-rocket   
   >   
      
   So, like, why not use a balloon?  Cheaper, safer, etc.  Truly the "mad"   
   moniker fit.   
      
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