My understanding (corrections welcome) is that the Shuttle and perhaps the Delta booster SRBs use propellant not too different from our own composite engines.
Does NASA have to follow the restriction imposed by the new laws? I believe they're over 62.5 g; is all the paperwork in place? Is the fuel stored in an approved magazine? Have background checks been done on all the workers who transport it?
Or is this yet another case of the feds exempting themselves from their own rules?
Yes.
No.
No.
Probably yes because THAT provision was installed 1-24-03 against the strong objection of DOT. DOT is suing ATF over it. It reversed 100 years of practice tat goods in transport and properly marked are exempt from explosives licensing.
Jerry
Yes.
Yes it is, and quite explicitly too. The military and other government agencies are evidently presumed to be unlikely to engage in "destructive misapplication of explosive materials". They don't have to get a permit to prove it.
-dave w
unlikely? You're joking right?;-)
No, he's nhot. Remember a place called Waco?
(Hastily donning asbestos underwear) Didn't they just blow up a large part of a middle eastern country that hadn't attacked us? Kind of destroys that presumption...
Jerry Irvine wrote: > In article , > Scott Schuckert wrote: >
Old story. And resolved.
See:
Thanks for the link David.
Jerry
I seem to remember a few grenades were thrown into some "fellow servicemens" tents at the start of this last war. I think maybe he should have been forced to get a permit first.
Kenny Howerton
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