If it...

...wasn't reality? In one of those "Drat, now I can't write this" moments...

...a 61-year-old flat earther actually plans on trying to launch himself into the sky.

In a steam rocket.

The worst part, is I can make this stuff up, but...

Oh, and if he survives, he's going to run for Governor. (Of California).

Not that he expects to reach space - but as a flat earther, he probably doesn't believe in it anyway.

I really wish I'd come up with this one.