2006-09-07

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2006-09-07 08:26 pm

Weird Fucking World

Jack Parsons, the co-founder of JPL and the California Institute of Technology:
- Was the father of American rocketry, according to Werner Von Braun
- Was a disciple of Aleister Crowley
- Was a mentor to L. Ron Hubbard
- Called himself the anti-christ
- Blew himself up with Fulminate of Mercury
- Has a crater on the dark side of the moon named after him

Mighty fuck.
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2006-09-07 11:35 pm

O Bountiful Internets!

Oh great series of tubes, how you grace me with the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and the works of Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith, now so much in the public domain!