{"id":26928,"date":"2017-11-22T09:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26928"},"modified":"2017-11-22T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:28:21","slug":"flat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26928","title":{"rendered":"Flat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/this-man-is-about-to-launch-himself-in-his-homemade-rocket-to-prove-the-earth-is-flat\/ar-BBFs6N8?li=BBmkt5R\">Seeking to prove<\/a> that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes\u2019s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above the Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof of the disc we all live on.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll shut the door on this ball earth,\u201d Hughes said in a fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group for Saturday\u2019s flight. Theories discussed during the interview included NASA being controlled by round-Earth Freemasons and Elon Musk making fake rockets from blimps.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes promised the flat-Earth community that he would expose the conspiracy with his steam-powered rocket, which will launch from a heavily modified mobile home \u2014 though he acknowledged that he still had much to learn about rocket science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'll guess that everything he sees will confirm his theory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"John Hartford - Steam Powered Aereo Plane\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_AV7ZTwqC8ZI\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/AV7ZTwqC8ZI\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AV7ZTwqC8ZI\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M45S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2011-08-26T19:50:53Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_AV7ZTwqC8ZI\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/AV7ZTwqC8ZI\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">John Hartford - Steam Powered Aereo Plane<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AV7ZTwqC8ZI\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/AV7ZTwqC8ZI\/0.jpg\" alt=\"John Hartford - Steam Powered Aereo Plane\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"from the album &#039;Aereo-Plain&#039; (1971) newgrass master (no diginoise or static here)\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal. 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