In February 2020, a few weeks before COVID-19–mandated shutdowns, an American daredevil pilot, Mike Hughes, set out to prove one thing: the earth is flat. But instead of doing what his contemporaries do — go on Joe Rogan and have a three-hour discussion about it — “Mad Mike” decided he would prove it using a steam-powered rocket.
BBC reports that Hughes’ rocket went up and then very quickly came down in a ball of flames, killing the flat earther. Hughes had given interviews before his planned expedition to space, where he hoped to finally be the person who proved the conspiracy theory that the earth is actually flat. And considering all the recent conspiracies that have actually been proven, we decided that perhaps we should take another look at the quintessential conspiracy about the shape of the earth.
