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The Demise of Model Rocketry?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-the-rockets'-red-glare dept.

Mark Lytle writes "Due to restrictions imposed by the rather broad Homeland Security Act, the hobby I suspect many Slashdotters, being technology buffs, grew up with, the Estes Model Rocket is now firmly on the endangered species list. The little cardboard rockets I learned science with in high school are evidently suspected of being potential weapons of mass destruction. Go figure. Perhaps by getting involved, we can stop this sillyness... Anyway, i hope so...."

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  1. Re:Worse than the UK! by sxpert · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Then again, we have had the IRA and friends (and enemies!) on our doorstep for over twenty-five years now...

    if only the brits would stop trying to seize a piece of ireland like they have been for the last, say, 400 years, there would be no IRA to talk about

  2. Re:Not very inconvenient - by Fig,+formerly+A.C. · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    a.k.a.: Pound me in the ass

    How is that any different from the treatment free citizens already get from the government?

    --
    Murphy was an optimist.