XPost: misc.news.internet.discuss   
   From: here@is.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:14:38 -0700, Zorro  wrote:   
      
   >So, like, why not use a balloon?   
      
   I suspect he was a showboater...he needed funding, so he changed his   
   rhetoric...and talked the talk to flat-Earth crowd.   
      
   "In 2002, he set a Guinness world record with a 103-foot (31 m) jump   
   in a Lincoln Town Car stretch limousine.[6][7][8] Hughes stated during   
   an interview with the Associated Press in 2018 that he had planned to   
   run for governor of California.[9]"   
      
   "In 2016, Hughes launched a failed fundraising attempt for a rocket   
   that earned $310.[1][10] After professing his belief in a flat Earth   
   later that year, Hughes gained support within the flat-Earth   
   community. His post-flat-Earth fundraising campaign made its $7,875   
   goal. "   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hughes_(daredevil)   
      
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