What The Hell Is Wrong With People?

CoyotesGator said:
Waaaaaaaay tooooooo slow.

Those solid fuel motors are screaming fast about a quarter second into their burn.
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Yeah, I used to have a bunch of those Estes model rockets as a kid along with my friends. One day I bought the smallest rocket, about a 6 inch tube with 3 fins, I think it was 50 cents. I then bought the most powerful motor. We took it up to the local field and launched it. I think I only saw it for about the first 10 feet and then, whoooooose no more rocket. Never saw it again :pound-hand:
 
Don O said:
Yeah, I used to have a bunch of those Estes model rockets as a kid along with my friends. One day I bought the smallest rocket, about a 6 inch tube with 3 fins, I think it was 50 cents. I then bought the most powerful motor. We took it up to the local field and launched it. I think I only saw it for about the first 10 feet and then, whoooooose no more rocket. Never saw it again :pound-hand:
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Friends of mine are heavily into model rocketry. When I was still working as a machinist, we were talking about building a two or three foot tall replica of a V-2, and making it an actual liquid powered rocket. Probably not very legal, but it would have been fun to watch take off (from a distance).
 
Robert Herndon said:
I grew up differently. I was a cop and served in the military.

Interesting thing is how violence can happen in the most unexpected places.

I enjoy our home in Arizona where you stand in line at the bank and everyone - tellers and clients alike - are openly armed.

Nothing ever happens.
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Nothing ever happens in my bank lineups either... funny that... :ROFLMAO:
 
gball said:
The only thoughts I have left are, if we (in the US) don't learn from the failed portions of our experiment and adjust our approach appropriately we are doomed as a society. The Constitution is a living document that can and should be changed when and where appropriate. What we have does not work yet people have dug in their heels about even studying or discussing the root causes and looking for viable solutions. We have plenty of models around the World that defy the old tropes about "self protection" and "the criminals taking over" to learn from yet we choose to look away and die a little more as a people every day as a result.
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Indeed. The Constitution has amendments. One of them is the second.
The very term amendment means change.
I don't believe the second one cannot be modified again.
I believe it was Jefferson who suggested that the Constitution should be reviewed every 19 years.
I agree.
 
CoyotesGator said:
The things we built as kids during fireworks season would get us locked up now.
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Exactly, OMG the things we did to our teachers, with our teachers, behind our teachers' backs, and even right along with our teachers would have likely gotten us as students, kicked out of school for some of them, teachers accused and fired for child abuse nowadays, and heck, medals of honor in some cases.

BUT WE SURE HAD FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even the Teachers!!!!

Yet, now, the country can't even get teachers to do their jobs. AND sadly even without Covid, many horror stories of some school environments where it is a wonder the teachers don't wear Kevlar and have their own grenades.

I still remember when I was in shock to hear about a case maybe 10-15 + years ago where a poor little 6 year old fella hugged or kissed a fellow student or students and got suspended for sexual harassment.

Give me a break, oh and I think in some places, Tag was outlawed.
 
Far Rider said:
The Master Giffer is no fool. :rolf:
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bans from three other forums say otherwise....

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