Izzy,
How would you like it if some person with a personal vendetta gassing a club, for whatever reason, went around to the club's launch site owners and ALSO all neighbors of that site, trying their best to "Chicken Little" scare the owners or neighbors, in order to get the launches shut down?
Because it would not be that hard for someone to be successful in getting sites shut down, even if their stories were far more based on achieving their vendetta than actual facts.
This is just what Cato did. He knew damned well that by shaking things up, he was risking losing the site for EVERYBODY. He didn?t care how many got screwed in the process, as long as his intended targets were among them.
No, I take that back. He didn?t care who got screwed, period. He said it didn?t matter if the whole world was against him (or words to that effect).
Even a good architect should know you don't try to shake a building to knock "only" the top floor down without risking the whole thing collapsing....
Would you want someone to start doing that sort of crap with YOUR club's sites? Really and truly? Trying to scare them and make them uncomfortable with rocketry as a whole since the owners (and neighbors) didn't have that much of a grasp of the difference? And if your club lost their site due to similar fear-mongering by a "I am right, everybody else is wrong, to hell with the consequences since it?s not even going to affect me anyway" zealot on a vendetta mission, whoever did that would not be at fault, right?
You honestly would not feel the slightest bit uncomfortable if someone tried doing that with the sites of all the clubs you flew with? You think the other people in your clubs would feel comfortable if someone tried such a campaign?
Cato, and Irvine too - my what a duo you have hitched your wagon to.
- George Gassaway