Oh gawd not another Utah police scandal what'd they do this time... wait... wut??

Fascinating article. One thing I want to point out is that Northrop Grumman is the contractor for the LGM-35 Sentinel, which is the next generation nuclear missile. As is traditional, work on the guidance systems and engines will be done in Utah. (cont'd)

wow it's time for the 12th space x starship test flight

I've seen people in Mormon/Exmormon spaces say that the church should lean into their alien beliefs, that embracing the weirdness would make them better. In actuality this is an incredibly dangerous theology and we are very lucky the church doesn't like pushing it.

"Any Latter-day Saint knows the answer. Of course visitors from outer space can come to earth! They’ve been doing it for six thousand years! God and angels visited Adam..." Always interesting that the Mormons go the opposite direction of the usual theories about spiritual UFOs being demons.

Interesting to see Scientology land on the same strategy as the Mormon influencers. This sort of thing has been going on for years in Mormonism, but with a much more intricate series of shell games and money moving around.

starship will land a colony on mars, starship will land on the moon, starship will make grimes come back, starship will launch starlink satellites, starship will build ai data centers, starship will make people not talk about me behind my back, starship will make a dyson sphere, starship will enable

really gonna have to step up those prayers for moisture

Sorry Spencer Cox but in the March 1988 Ensign Thomas S. Monson said that artificial intelligence is impossible. Looks like somebody wasn't paying enough attention in Sunday School 😏

Always funny how Utah's homespun, 19th-century branding justifies them having regressive social views, but then they'll turn around and have a shadowy state military development agency signing on to build a cutting-edge AI data center that will use up all the state's natural resources.

Can't wait for the TikTok Zoomers to find out that you can also do a speedrun challenge with Mormon temples.

The Mormon church supports stuff like this to the tune of $288 million.

Deseret Books, I hereby declare this concept to be in the public domain. Feel free to have someone write it.

This is the greatest piece of Mormon scripture art I've ever seen.

Mormon scripture - Dune novel concordance //thread//

I love when guys like this show up and try to tell me what LDS doctrine actually is. I was a pretty normal member and I knew about the Battle of Armageddon. I can look into my own brain to find out that a big war around Israel leads up to the Second Coming in Mormon doctrine.

Can't speak out against the Iran War when your premillennialist eschatology requires big Middle East wars for Christ to return.

At least Jon McNaughton was a little more subtle when he implied that Trump was Jesus by cribbing another Mormon artist's painting.

We call this "pulling a Shen Yun"

It was lovely watching so many people cheering on Artemis II yesterday. Years of SpaceX has left people checked out of space exploration---for good reason--- so it was really cool to watch everyone get excited about NASA again.

nasa's budget is cut now the artemis landing is set for 2028 now we've added another test mission now we've opened the lander contract now both companies need to do an uncrewed mission now gateway is a lunar base now we now we changed sls's design now we're doing 30 robot landers a year now we're

This is a fun rabbit hole to dive down. I wrote an article about how Mormon computational stylometry apologetics has roots that trace back to BYU scientists using tools they originally developed for the statistical analysis of nuclear war attack plans. hightokolob.substack.com/p/wordprint-...

I was on the Elon Musk hate train in like 2014, ahead of the curve. Knew this guy was gonna be trouble during Inspiration4 in 2021. It's just a vibe.

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Grown men are going to cry when CENTCOM releases footage of an F-14 getting destroyed.

R.e. Elon Musk turning to Christ, I think the LDS church would be a great denomination for him.

The section of this paper "Religious Nationalism in the United States: Its Sources and History" gives a good overview of White Christian Nationalism, and most if not all of the beliefs are lockstep with Mormonism. www.philipgorski.com/assets/docum...

Conspicuously missing Italians

Called both of the new ones:

Musk pivoting from one thing that's definitely not going to happen (Mars city) to a thing that is, shockingly, even less likely to happen (mass drivers to build O'Neill Cylinders and a Dyson Swarm) shows that we're in late-stage Howard Hughes territory.

"...and, yes, handsome,..."

Rise and shine, time to immanentize the eschaton.

We're going to make a reusable rocket -> we're going land on Mars -> we're going to build a city on Mars -> we're going to build data centers in space -> we're going to be a Kardashev II civilization -> I think the sun might be alive.

Brigham Young moment. "What is in the sun? Can astronomers tell us who lives there? No. Now know that millions of inhabitants dwell there! The Sun is filled with the power of God."

Keeping up with what exactly SpaceX is trying to accomplish is like that phaser target practice game they play in TNG where the dots keep swirling around, randomly changing position with no apparent rhyme or reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Kx...

Always a good time to point out that the Mormon church pushed their investments in Palantir from $68 million in 2024 to $288 million after Trump was elected.

Checking in on SpaceX

wars and rumors of wars... Joseph Smith prophesied that the Lost Ten Tribes would return from the north and smite the ice... holy cow...

Checks out.

Trevor Lee is my favorite "blocked by" from Twitter.

*Nelson laugh* Stephen Miller likes Star Trek V!

This will always be my favorite Jan. 6 dress up.

Lotta CIA guys brushing up on their mission language right now.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about how Eric Berger named Elon launching a car into space as the #1 moment in 21st century spaceflight.

Isaacman is a great example of the Every is 12 Now Theory. "I think a tech billionaire is qualified to lead NASA because he owns a fighter plane, thinks nuclear reactors in space are cool, and bought his own tourist spaceflight." Of course you do, you're 12.

For a brief second when they found out about SpaceX going public the clouds suddenly parted and they was handwringing on Twitter when they realized that Musk actually doesn't really care about going to Mars. The moment was brief, but it was an interesting one to see.

Jeffrey R. Holland: "if [a person] leaves this Church, it must be done by crawling over or under or around the Book of Mormon to make that exit." Me:

While a believing Mormon I had my suspicions that Jeffrey Holland† and David Bednar were going to be the two prophets spoken of in Revelation that would fight for Israel during the Battle of Armageddon.

A favorite moment of mine r.e. Holland's eloquence is when BBC was interviewing him about Romney's temple covenants and Jeff accidentally called Obama "Osama" and then implied he'd also made secret religious pledges. youtu.be/pb2GRssSSMw?...