The Black Cockerel

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yeah, it’s scary.

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

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Holy shit, Warren Jeff’s father?! Dude, America has some fucked up families.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      don’t get me started about how the mormons controlled the us sugar industry. mostly because i don’t know specifics.

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• JayDee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like the idea presented in this video that just having Big Bird apart of the Challenger mission would have caused a chain reaction in upper management which would have stopped it from being a disaster.

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• Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Too soon

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was over 40 years ago, though. If it were Columbia, that would be different. I actually blame Boeing for Columbia, they put together what is commonly referred to as “Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed 7 people”.

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    • scrodumb@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As a teenager my buddy’s mom told us a joke.

      What does NASA stand for?

      Needs Another Seven Astronauts

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    • plateee@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow. That’s a fucked up read.

      https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx

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    • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      NASA should have pressed for more detail than a deck though

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• Danarchy@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Challenger exhaust trail leading up to an explosive split, punctuated by a cloud of yellow feathers

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• athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  SMOSH try not to laugh bit:

  youtu.be/FWDSLcH6ifU?is=P4s3huUNvjBPczdE

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