[HN Gopher] Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of NASA's...
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Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of NASA's history
Author : Anon84
Score : 17 points
Date : 2022-05-21 20:47 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.co.uk)
| PaulHoule wrote:
| ... probably got blown up by L. Ron Hubbard's followers.
| jrootabega wrote:
| Is this page 2 of something? It seems like it's missing a
| beginning. I'm on mobile.
| marssaxman wrote:
| It starts just as abruptly on my laptop. Not sure what the
| editor was thinking.
| trasz wrote:
| Yet another genius destroyed for not being a good Christian.
| dwroberts wrote:
| He committed statutory rape of his wife's sister
| trasz wrote:
| You need to take the cultural aspect into account - we are
| talking about a country where to this day one can legally
| marry a 12 year old.
| IdEntities wrote:
| Thelema is not some cute LARP for edgelords. NASA is writing
| Parsons out of their history because someone who adhered to a
| credo of "do what thou wilt" is embarrassing to have as a
| foundational figure in the organization.
| 8bitsrule wrote:
| The 'JP' in JPL? (One wonders.) Another member of the Caltech
| 'suicide squad', Frank Malina
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Malina], was another of the
| Aerojet founders scrutinized for politics by the FBI. He decided
| to quit because of the weapons aspects and moved to France to
| join UNESCO. There he became a 'fugitive' in 1952. Unlike
| Parsons, though, he made it into the 'International Space Hall of
| Fame' in Alamagordo.
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