To say the evidence is overwhelming is an understatement. There is zero doubt about this fact in the real, round world. 'Theories' abound on YouTube, and the flat-Earth Facebook page has some 194,000 followers.

Hughes isn't alone in his misguided belief: Remarkably, thousands of years after the ancient Greeks proved our planet is a sphere, the flat-Earth movement seems to be gaining momentum. For the cost of his rocket stunt ($20,000), Hughes could have easily flown around the world on a commercial airliner at 35,000 feet. He fell back to Earth with minor injuries after reaching 1875 feet-not even as high as the tip of One World Trade Center. According to The Washington Post, Hughes thought they were 'merely paid actors performing in front of a computer-generated image of a round globe.' It didn't matter that astronauts like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong had been to space and verified that the Earth is round Hughes didn't believe them.

The plan: Strap himself to a homemade steam-powered rocket and launch 52 miles into sky above California’s Mojave Desert, where he'd see Earth's shape with his own eyes.

On March 24, 2018, flat-earther Mike Hughes set out prove that the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee.

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