{"id":13041,"date":"2017-11-23T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13041"},"modified":"2017-11-23T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T17:59:22","slug":"a-guy-with-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/23\/a-guy-with-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guy With A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2017\/11\/21\/this-man-is-about-to-launch-himself-in-his-homemade-rocket-to-prove-the-earth-is-flat\/?undefined=&amp;utm_term=.f54160075d85&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From <\/a><em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seeking to\u00a0prove\u00a0that a conspiracy of astronauts\u00a0fabricated the\u00a0shape\u00a0of the\u00a0Earth,\u00a0a California man intends to\u00a0launch\u00a0himself 1,800 feet high\u00a0on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long\u00a0flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill\u00a0him, Mike Hughes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/self-taught-rocket-scientist-plans-to-launch-over-ghost-town\/2017\/11\/20\/0caa953e-cdcd-11e7-a87b-47f14b73162a_story.html?utm_term=.709f9e531254\">told the Associated Press<\/a>,\u00a0his\u00a0journey into the\u00a0atmosflat will\u00a0mark the first phase of\u00a0his ambitious flat-Earth space program.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes\u2019s ultimate goal is\u00a0a subsequent\u00a0launch that puts\u00a0him miles above the Earth,\u00a0where\u00a0the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to\u00a0photograph proof of\u00a0the\u00a0disc we all live on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll shut the door on this ball earth,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KP1VBisokkk\">Hughes said<\/a>\u00a0in a fundraising\u00a0interview with a flat-Earth group for\u00a0Saturday\u2019s flight. Theories discussed during the interview included\u00a0NASA\u00a0being controlled by round-Earth Freemasons and Elon Musk\u00a0making fake rockets\u00a0from\u00a0blimps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ya gotta admire a guy ready to put his life on the line for a long disproven theory. You could even say he&#8217;s just participating in scientific research, attempting to disprove a hypothesis first formulated by ancient Greeks.<\/p>\n<p>Hope he doesn&#8217;t become an object lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WaPo: Seeking to\u00a0prove\u00a0that a conspiracy of astronauts\u00a0fabricated the\u00a0shape\u00a0of the\u00a0Earth,\u00a0a California man intends to\u00a0launch\u00a0himself 1,800 feet high\u00a0on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal. Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long\u00a0flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill\u00a0him, Mike Hughes\u00a0told the Associated Press,\u00a0his\u00a0journey into the\u00a0atmosflat will\u00a0mark the first phase of\u00a0his ambitious \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/23\/a-guy-with-a-dream\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}