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[–] 38 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    Wait you can get even more fundamentalist than a regular mormon?

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    yeah, it's scary.

    basically fundamentalist mormon means polygamist tho. like, explicitly, whereas just regular mormon it's implicit.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    Honestly doesn't sound as bad as I was imagining.

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  • [–] 3 points 19 hours ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Was it really them or administrators ignoring the warnings about o-rings and freezing? I mean a non-freezing o-ring would be nice.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    All but two people (whose names escape me) through the rings would be fine.

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