On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:41:17 +1300, "Newsletters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If each group makes decisions based on their vested interests and decides to >lay low because their own activities are safe from attack, they will pick >you off one by one (or ten by ten). They may not yet have noticed that you >have slipped through their dragnet but be assured that it's only a matter of >time. Join the fun while there are still others to share it with. And, if each group jumps on the bandwagon every time someone says the sky is falling, they won't get anything else done. ERPS exists to build and test reusable liquid fuel rocket vehicles. Everything we do is in support of that goal. We also have to pick our battles. It is clearly in ERPS' interest to support John Wickman's proposed legislation removing all rockets from ATFE jurisdiction. It is less clear that spending our time and energy on a hip shoot Senate faxathon about solids is a good use of said time and energy. My main concern about draconian laws about rockets is that they will simply be ignored. That's the fine line you walk in an area of the law where compliance is essentially voluntary: if you make it too hard, people quit complying. That makes the hobbyists scofflaws, and forces the commercial guys - and the responsible organizations, including ERPS - to put the hobbyists at some remove. That's bad for synergy, and synergy has shown itself to be a wonderful thing. -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
