I'm glad he didn't take anyone with him when the inevitable happened.

Idiot!

materials... all involved science. probably has a Smart phone in his pocket. SCIENCE!!

It was on one of those tablets.

If he was basing it on what he could personally see, take a look at the moon and the sun - notice they are round?

at night you know, when it is cooler.

Just speculating. I think it’s kind of like a criminal mentality - no one thinks they are going to get caught when robbing a bank or boarding a plane with 20 kilos duct-taped to their body.
I doubt he thought he’d ever crash.

Just sayin.'

and ending up in that same place? Somehow I think they have an explanation for that.

Except maybe Newton? Maybe one or two of his laws of motion?

9m/sec²

but he convincingly proved that Hughes is flat.

when you run into it falling from the sky

that Science is a bitch.

get the nation riding on Mad Mike Hughes' rocket
clearly, this will end well for all of us, right?

One can trust science. One can rely upon & count on science.
But, it’s not a belief structure.
So the part about him understanding aerodynamics & fluid dynamics: I’ll presume that to be a lie.

KERMAN! Only not as smart.

(He should have played Kerbal Space Program instead of playing with his life)

Parts of it, especially the eastern part, are far from flat.

He may not have proved that the Earth is flat, but he proved gravity works.