Mike Hughes seems to have failed to prove the shape of the Earth but has himself successfully taken on that shape.
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the parachute failed to take hold.”
Nice, RTFirefly!
Thanks! 
Oh my gosh, I heard a guy died on a rocket, but I did not put together that it was actually that flat-earth guy.
We may very well have our Darwin-award winner for 2020, then. Embarassing to say the least.
Did he get high enough to see the Earth is round? Man, you talk about a strange final moments if he actually saw the planet was round just in time to fall into it.
Jeanne Evert Dubin, a world-class tennis player and a member of one of the sport’s most accomplished families, has died at the age of 62 after a lengthy illness:
Chris Evert’s younger sister.
Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician profiled in Hidden Figures, has died at age 101.
Just in case anyone missed the MPSIMS thread, longtime Death Pooler kopek passed away this morning. 
Shit
Hosni Mubarek will not be down for breakfast, 9 points
Hosni Mubarak dead at 91.
The world’s oldest living man, Chitetsu Watanabe, has passed away in Japan at the age of 112, the Niigata prefecture government said in a statement Tuesday.
According to Wiki, Japan can still claim the World’s Oldest Living Woman. Kane Tanaka. She turned 117, earlier this year.
UK now has the World’s Oldest Living Man, Robert Weighton who might turn 112 next month.
Dammit. The year I drop him from my list.
Elyse Rosenstein has boldly gone.
I’m not even a Trekkie and to me, she’s the definition of a freaking hero. For no reason but love, she did massively popular things that brought herself and a shit ton of others joy.
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Author Clive Cussler dead at 88, according to a family statement.
Kazuhisa Hashimoto has burned through all 30 of his lives and left either 39 or 21 points on the board.
I see from the article that his age was inconsistently reported, but doesn’t that make it sound like he used a cheat code to raise or lower his age?
Theoretical physicist and mathematician, Freeman Dyson, is dead at 96.