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Explosives Camp
theodp writes "How about a summer camp where you get in trouble for not blowing things up? Students with a passion for all things explosive and proof of US citizenship pay a $450 fee to attend Summer Explosives Camp, 'We try to give them an absolute smorgasbord of explosives,' quipped a professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla, which offers a minor in explosives engineering. Here's the brochure (PDF), kids!"
What I'm saying is that kids should not be licensed to work with explosives at such a young age.
Mostly because any safety training they'll get in the beginning of the course is unlikely to stick, what they'll remember after such a short course will be how to blow stuff, and I think kids should not learn that until they are old enough to remember and take safety precautions.
I know this is way too much thinkofthechildren, but as a kid, I nearly blew my hands of several times, and I dont want my kids to do what I did.
It was fun, yes, but completely unneccesary, and i did not learn much from it.
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There's nothing about congratulating. As I quite clearly stated -- the very limited damage was due to an almost unbelievable incompetance of the so-called 'terrorists', wannabes would almost be more apropriate. Seriously, 8 people put their mind to doing damage, and manage to come up with -zero- dead and a puny few million damages ? There is no indication whatsoever that they carried trough *other* *unrelated* harmful acts, so your post amounts to completely groundless hypothethical "what-if". What if they had instead blown up a 10 megaton atomic bomb at the Super Bowl. What if they had instead made the sun go Nova ! (wait, that'd toast Mekka too :-))