Warning: This video shows the fatal crash of Mad Mike Hughes.This article was originally published on The Conversation. But, in the end, just be nice to people.' What you've got is right now-you don't have tomorrow you don't have next week. People want the security, the insurance, the 401K, and all that stuff and it's all crap, OK. 'Most people are afraid to follow their dreams. I'm going to have cameras with me,' he said. I'm going to go up there and I'm going to see it for myself. 'I don't care if it's Russia, the United States, or China. In that interview, Hughes said he believed that gravity doesn’t exist, that the Earth is 'stationary,' and that he would not take any government agency's word on the shape of the Earth. Very few people will roll the dice with their lives.

I put on my big boy pants and I man up and I do things and I will roll the dice. I was asking myself if this was the last thing I was going to do,” he said. “When I’m walking up the ramp, and I'm thinking: Am I walking up to the gallows where I am going to hang myself? That goes through your mind. Hughes acknowledged in a previous interview with VICE that he realized his stunts were dangerous. It was posted with the hashtag #RIPMADMIKE in the title of the video. His official YouTube page posted a music video of the Death Valley Girls' '(One Less Thing) Before I Die,' cut with previously shot footage of Hughes' previous crashes. A video posted before Saturday's launch attempt shows a larger rocket than one he'd flown on in the past, and the words FLAT EARTH had been replaced with an ad for Hud, a hookup and dating app. The eventual goal of these launches was to launch himself up to the required 35,000-foot altitude needed to see (or, in Hughes’ case, not see) the curvature of the Earth.

In previous launches, he flew as high at 1,875 feet into the air at speeds of about 350 MPH. In 2017, he raised $8,496 on GoFundMe for the rocket.

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