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Kevin Darling wrote:

Just wait. Next they'll figure out that there are zillions of radio
controlled airplanes (!!) out there in the hands of teenagers, which
could be "packed with explosives". Yep, the RC danger is real,
folks.

They already eliminated amateur rocketry.

My rocketing buddy says:

Nope, not at all! The reality is that Rocketry would be an incredibly
expensive, inaccurate and clumsy way of doing anything terrorist like.
Anyway, "model" rockets have no new restrictions. Shipping and storing
propellant that weights more than 62.5 grams has some additional
bureaucratic restrictions but (as my pictures on my office prove) is still
very, very common and able to be done.

The "incredibly expensive, inaccurate and clumsy" part should sound
familiar.

Or did you means amateur rocketry of the Saturn V class?

-- David Brooks

David Brooks wrote:

Or did you means amateur rocketry of the Saturn V class?

Nope, I had just read of new (circa 2002) restrictions on the solid-fuel rocket
engines we used to buy for my stepson. Glad to hear that was overhyped.

George Patterson
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