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 Quora is filled with battles over stolen ideas and fallen heroes. Just as you mention with the work of many famous scientists and inventors, there are always claims of "stolen ideas." Likewise, people think all our heroes are model citizens living in a perfect people. Most of them are indeed strange and interesting characters.
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+Ridley Scott to produce miniseries on rocket scientist, occultist Jack Parsons
+http://boingboing.net/2014/10/28/ridley-scott-to-produce-minise.html
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+Book review: Strange Angel, a Jack Parsons biography
+http://boingboing.net/2005/07/11/book-review-strange.html
-Ridley Scott to produce miniseries on rocket scientist, occultist Jack Parsons
+Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
+https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677288.Strange_Angel
-http://boingboing.net/2014/10/28/ridley-scott-to-produce-minise.html
+John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of black magic.

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