Tri-State Trucking in Joplin Missouri hauls them around all the time....big whoop. Same thing with living near a nuke plant or a nuke silo...never bothered me growing up.

Even 50 years later, I still remember it as if it were yesterday, along with the Apollo 1 fire, landing on the moon etc. It was a really exciting time, in the 60's as we were taking steps to explore outside the earth, then, after we beat the Russians to the moon, everything pretty much stopped. We build that stupid shuttle, instead of continuing to explore the moon. We stopped "exploring", and just were content to spend taxpayer money circling the earth in a reusable dump truck.

Could produce something, that is worth LESS than the cost to MANUFACTURE it!

Been going on for years...cut cut cut, and NASA in the "old" days got it done. Now, I seriously doubt they could launch a bottle rocket without 10 meetings, a dozen redesigns, etc. John Glenn (or one of the original 7) said it best. "What do you think about when you're afraid, when you're just ready to launch?" The standard answer in the astronaut corps -- and I think everyone claims parentage -- is, "How do you think you'd feel if you knew you were on top of two million parts built by the lowest bidder in a government contract?"

Another reason I'll probably never leave the borders of the USA. At least (for now) we still have freedom of speech. Now, with our muslim president, I guess if someone over here insulted their "god" he would probably round them up & ship them off to Iran to be hung. You can insult just about any religion in the USA you want, but, if you insult islam, OFF WITH YOUR HEAD LOL.

Just a place for people to think they are really someone. I stopped going to Digg/Reddit years ago, when it became nothing more than a giant flamefest. Doesn't surprise me that the flamebaiters would also be into kiddy porn.

I can just see it now...the government will then come out and say that 3g or whatever "is a right", which means the only agency that can do it, will be the government. Explain to me how a private company is to be PROFITABLE (oh that ugly word...profit), if they are to build out an expensive thing like towers, cabinets etc, in an area WITH FEW PEOPLE. I guess we'll be giving wolves & bears free access next. There are a lot of areas that have few people. If you were to overlay this map, with a population density map, odds are they would almost line up. Tell the government to go F**k off!

They switched from CFC's to make the foam, to something "green", but the stuff kept flaking off the external tank, and then it blew a hole in the wing of the Columbia. Same thing will happen with "green" rocket fuel. Quit screwing around with peoples lives in the name of this mythical "green" crap!

AP has been around pretty much since stereo really took off. The problem I have with the "junk" called music today is that it matters not if it is played at a club, on the radio, MP3, CD, it's crap. NO dynamic range, overdriven. You hear the garbage coming out of cars today, the RUST bounces up and down and the THD is in the 30% range LOL. Spend thousands of dollars on equipment and it still sounds like junk. My home stereo is a simple setup, couple of good quality Klipsch speakers, a descent quality amp etc and it sounds great. You have to take the acoustics of a room into account and how the sounds will resonate off the walls, furniture etc. Just spending thousands of dollars on sub woofers, horns and a zillion watt per channel amp won't do you any good. People should listen to some of AP's work, not just the top 40 songs. Some of his stuff has a lot of depth. Plug into some good Sennsheiser headphones, close your eyes and listen to it. You might have to hear it over and over just to hear all of the sounds coming out of what he did back 30 years ago.

When I worked as a bench tech for TI in Houston, in the 80's, they brought a "thumper truck" to the office for us to look at. The doodlebuggers used it when they were searching for oil, in areas they couldn't use explosives for the shock waves. They had a similar thingy for oceans that would blast high pressure air into the sea floor.