Post by scarletharlot on Jun 12, 2011 11:45:22 GMT -8
...is the fact that as recently as 20 years previous to the first moon landing, people were still poopooing the idea of rockets going into space. And now we have had things like Voyager and Cassini-Huygens.
There were a number of 'rocketry pioneers', but none so colourful as John Whiteside Parsons...
In fact he was not a 'rocket scientist, but in fact an expert in explosives.
A rocket after all, is essentially nothing more than a chamber mounted on top of a 'controlled explosion".
He was also a noted swordsman, and a member of OTO, under the tutelage of Aleister Crowley himself.
He was also a Ninth Degree Lodge-brother with L. Ron Hubbard, the second-rate SF author and notorious founder of Scientology: a twisted version of the teachings of Thelema
I strongly recommed reading "Strange Angel" a biography of the life of the father of space travel, John Whiteside Parsons.
There were a number of 'rocketry pioneers', but none so colourful as John Whiteside Parsons...
In fact he was not a 'rocket scientist, but in fact an expert in explosives.
A rocket after all, is essentially nothing more than a chamber mounted on top of a 'controlled explosion".
He was also a noted swordsman, and a member of OTO, under the tutelage of Aleister Crowley himself.
He was also a Ninth Degree Lodge-brother with L. Ron Hubbard, the second-rate SF author and notorious founder of Scientology: a twisted version of the teachings of Thelema
I strongly recommed reading "Strange Angel" a biography of the life of the father of space travel, John Whiteside Parsons.
