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Flat Earth

Using weather to disprove the flat Earth hypothesis
Flat Earth

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Using weather to disprove the flat Earth hypothesis

Because of the way gravity works, which we all encounter in our daily lives, every molecule of air would be drawn to the Earth’s center of mass. Because the Earth is a globe, this means the atmosphere settles around the Earth, pulled toward Earth’s center, but is stopped by the Earth’s surface. The …

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Flat-Earth martyr or victim? ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in DIY rocket crash
Flat Earth

Archived 6 years ago from Global News
Flat-Earth martyr or victim? ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in DIY rocket crash

Self-styled daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes has died after crashing his homemade rocket-balloon into the California desert while supposedly trying to prove that the Earth is flat. It’s not. Nevertheless, Hughes died chasing “proof” of a viral conspiracy theory he championed for years. The 64-year-old …

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Using weather to disprove the flat Earth hypothesis
Flat Earth

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Using weather to disprove the flat Earth hypothesis

That cause turned deadly over the weekend when “Mad” Mike Hughes, “self-styled daredevil, flat-Earth theorist and limousine-jumping stuntman” died in a rocket accident while trying to prove the flat-Earth hypothesis correct. But even the weather shows the Earth isn’t flat. Here’s how. Story …

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Flat Earth Community Undeterred by Death of ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes
Flat Earth

Archived 5 years ago from Rolling Stone
Flat Earth Community Undeterred by Death of ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes

On Saturday, 64-year-old “Mad” Mike Hughes was killed when a rocket he was attached to crashed in the desert in San Bernardino County, California. Hughes was a member of the Flat Earth community, a subculture consisting of people who (despite all scientific evidence pointing squarely to the …

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‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, who wanted to prove the flat-Earth theory, dies in homemade-rocket disaster
Flat Earth

Archived 6 years ago from The Washington Post
‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, who wanted to prove the flat-Earth theory, dies in homemade-rocket disaster

Hughes, a self-styled daredevil, flat-Earth theorist and limousine-jumping stuntman, died Saturday when his crudely built contraption propelled him on a column of steam, spiraled through the air and cratered into the sagebrush outside Barstow, Calif. He was 64. “Everyone was just stunned and didn’t …

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Daredevil and Flat Earth theorist “Mad Mike” Hughes dies in rocket crash
Flat Earth

Archived 10 months ago from CBS News
Daredevil and Flat Earth theorist “Mad Mike” Hughes dies in rocket crash

Daredevil and Flat Earth theorist Michael “Mad Mike” Hughes died Saturday in a rocket crash. Hughes, 64, wanted to prove the Flat Earth theory by taking photographs of the Earth from a homemade rocket.Saturday’s rocket launch was to be featured on the Science Channel, which was chronicling Hughes’ …

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Space Force for the Flat-Earthers | Journal-news
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Archived 6 years ago from Martinsburg Journal
Space Force for the Flat-Earthers | Journal-news

Not all conspiracy theories are necessarily destructive. Compared to the Birthers, the anti-Vaxers, the deniers of the Sandy Hook Shooting, the Holocaust and Climate Change, the resurgence of the Flat Earth Society of the 1800s seems relatively harmless. Disagreement over the shape of our planet …

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Flat Earth FC: the football club who represent a conspiracy theory
Flat Earth

Archived 6 years ago from The Guardian
Flat Earth FC: the football club who represent a conspiracy theory

Javi Poves was a promising young footballer. Having risen through the ranks at Sporting Gijón, the Spanish defender made his La Liga debut in 2011 on the final day of the season. He retired that summer having made that one appearance for the club. He was 23 years old. “What I’ve seen from within …

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Flat Earth meltdown: NASA astronaut’s striking photos of round Earth …
Flat Earth

Archived 1 year ago from Express
Flat Earth meltdown: NASA astronaut’s striking photos of round Earth …

The NASA astronaut is one of the six people currently working and living 250 miles (402km) above our planet. But not everyone down on Earth believes the International Space Station is real or that humans have ever even left the atmosphere.A subsection of conspiracy theorists known as Flat-Earthers …

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