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Re: Stinger Specs



Lucky Green wrote:

> There is nothing like some real life challenges to spark a young person's
> mind. Today, conducting the experiments that fueled von Braun's imagination
> would be a felony. The mere posession of the chemicals he used in his early
> twenties is illegal.
> 
> This country has set out on a project to dumb the minds of its young. With
> great success.

Quite.  I once heard a comment that young pyrotechnicians (?) go on to become 
either great scientists or great lawyers, presumably due to their having to 
explain to their parents the reason for large clouds of smoke etc.

Gary