Mike Hughes And The Flat Earth Theories That Led Him To Launch A Rocket

Converting To A Flat Earther

It wasn’t until 2016 that Hughes decided the world was flat. He quickly started to spread flat earth conspiracy theories around the internet and made a name for himself in the small but tight-knit flat earther community.

Hughes was convinced scientists around the world have been staging fake photos and videos of a round earth and told the community he could launch himself into space and take verifiable photos of a flat earth. That’s when he launched a fundraising campaign to build a homemade rocket…