290: Episode 290 - Jack Parsons: The Occultist Sex-Crazed Father of Modern Rocketry

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

From Copernicus to Newton, the greatest minds in history have had a crater named after them on the moon. But one name you may not know is Jack Parsons, a pioneer of rocket science whose contributions were so monumental that man wouldn’t have set foot on the moon without him.

However, his sex-crazed occultism and bromance with L. Ron Hubbard made it hard for the scientific community to embrace him, leading to his eponymous crater being placed on the dark side of the moon.

This story has everything from revolutionary science to orgies, the occult, and demonic rituals - what are you waiting for…

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0:00.0	I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. And welcome to Red Handed. A person based Red Handed.
0:14.4	Oh, which we'll be doing a few more of this year, I think.
0:17.9	This is a fascinating case. And I'm very excited, personally, to do this.
0:23.3	So let's just get on with it. Let's have a question for you.
0:28.4	You're on, have I got news for you? Uh-oh.
0:31.4	And you have to answer the following questions.
0:33.5	Copernicus, Davinci, Shakespeare, Einstein, Isaac Newton,
0:38.6	and Michael Jackson. Oh, what do all of those people have in common?
0:44.8	Batch it.
0:49.5	Yeah, dead. Dead. Yes, yeah.
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:54.8	Naila, no points, points all around.
0:57.0	Okay, you've got two correct answers.
0:59.9	What specifically you thinking of, what can I say?
1:02.4	I need you to say. I don't know.
1:04.4	Is that all of those people have a crater on the moon named after them?
1:08.5	No way. Michael Jackson. Apparently so.
1:12.0	Why not? Sure. I can go nuts.
1:16.8	Anyway, having a crater on the Earth's moon named after you
1:20.4	is a very serious and rare honor reserved for history's most influential people.
1:26.5	And another one of these influential and extraordinary human beings is a man called Jack Parsons,
1:33.9	a pioneer of rocket science.
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