"Mad-Mike" Hughes, a self-styled explorer and daredevil bent on proving that the earth is flat was killed over the weekend when his homemade rocket crashed in the California-desert over the weekend. "Michael 'Mad-Mike' Hughes tragically passed away today during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket," the Science-Channel, which was planning to feature him on an upcoming series called "Homemade Astronauts," said on Twitter.