Thanks a lot, Pan

[isomeme]

My daughter madelineusher , who spends a lot more time exploring this system of tubes than I do, clued me in to this article on nine real-life mad scientists.  Our old pal Jack Parsons is number eight -- second in the article, as they're counting down.  Given it's a humor piece, they don't do a bad job of summing up his life, despite little goofs like saying

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I think the guy who is # 9

[sesa777]

Should be at # 2... sick!

Actually, compared to the other 8, Jack comes off pretty benign.

[aurictech]

I especially liked the comment about Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (who, at one point, wanted to impregnate human females using chimp semen, in order to breed "a super race of slave ape-man hybrids" that would make Stakhanovites look like slackers):

Word got out about this and the project was shut down by... the Ku Klux Klan. They threatened the lady who owned the chimps and got her to back down. The Klan apparently figured that chimps breeding with white women was actually way worse than what they had been fighting up to then.

Congratulations, Ivanov. You found a way to get the whole world agreeing with the Klan.