evidence: "A lot of people are turned off by the phrase 'flat earth' ... but there's no way u can see all the evidence and not know ... grow up," he previously tweeted, and then deleted. [...] "But even if it had, and even if he managed to subsequently rocket-pack himself into space by the end of the year, his mission would have ended at worst in death, and at best in disappointment as he realised what Ancient Greeks and schoolchildren already knew — the world is round; it has always been round; Mike Hughes will never see its edges." [...] "All our physics is constructed now, the physics of orbits of things going around the earth is all constructed with this three dimensional world. And the pictures from space show our world as a globe and yet somehow there are some people that still seem to believe the earth is flat."