That time fundamentalist Mormons almost got Big Bird killed.
Specifically, about how Morton Thiokol o-ring subcontractor HydraPak (originally Utah Tool & Die, later Western Precision, and now “NewEra Manufacturing” based in Cedar City, Utah), which made the o-rings of the Challenger that failed on 1986-01-28, killing the entire NASA crew, was started and run as a front operation for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) religious sect by its prophet Rulon Jeffs (father of currently imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs) as Utah Tool & Die. For more details, read the book Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints by Sam Brower.
watch the documentary “Keep Sweet” on netflix about Short Creek and the Jeffs. it’s bad.
one of my grandfathers escaped that cult. we were proud of him for doing it, but it was a constant battle for him to not fall into his old culty habits.
I wouldn’t say it is implicit. The leadership has been trying really hard to backpedal and say they never do and have never done polygamy (except some nebulous long ago time period).
That time fundamentalist Mormons almost got Big Bird killed.
Specifically, about how Morton Thiokol o-ring subcontractor HydraPak (originally Utah Tool & Die, later Western Precision, and now “NewEra Manufacturing” based in Cedar City, Utah), which made the o-rings of the Challenger that failed on 1986-01-28, killing the entire NASA crew, was started and run as a front operation for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) religious sect by its prophet Rulon Jeffs (father of currently imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs) as Utah Tool & Die. For more details, read the book Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints by Sam Brower.
Wait you can get even more fundamentalist than a regular mormon?
yeah, it’s scary.
basically fundamentalist mormon means polygamist tho. like, explicitly, whereas just regular mormon it’s implicit.
Honestly doesn’t sound as bad as I was imagining.
watch the documentary “Keep Sweet” on netflix about Short Creek and the Jeffs. it’s bad.
one of my grandfathers escaped that cult. we were proud of him for doing it, but it was a constant battle for him to not fall into his old culty habits.
I wouldn’t say it is implicit. The leadership has been trying really hard to backpedal and say they never do and have never done polygamy (except some nebulous long ago time period).
Was it really them or administrators ignoring the warnings about o-rings and freezing? I mean a non-freezing o-ring would be nice.
All but two people (whose names escape me) through the rings would be fine.
They are called Big Bird and The Count I believe.
I guess not everyone grew up on Sesame Street.
i could have sworn one was snuffalupagus.
He’s just a figment of your imagination.
Holy shit, Warren Jeff’s father?! Dude, America has some fucked up families.
don’t get me started about how the mormons controlled the us sugar industry. mostly because i don’t know specifics.