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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics
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To: Steve Lee who wrote (89951)7/2/2002 1:40:19 PM
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Steve,

I do hope you realise that you are quoting from a website that sells buidling plans and material. Yes, there are a few pictures of rockets that they can build, but those things are essentially akin to the individual tubes in a Katyusha/Stalin Organ launcher, with a payload no greater than a 105mm artillery shell. There is no mention of success rate on the website you cited; well, most amatuer launches do not succeed. It is just a bit fanciful to think that the terrorist amatuer rockteer can fit them with GPS controllers, and radioactive materia, especially without extensive testing that would arouse FAA if not NORAD.

That is just the rocket side of the difficulties. Then there is the controller side. AFAIK, civilian GPS receiver chip sets as well as off-the-shelf radio controllers are of the silicon variety, not exactly viable when exposed to high doses of radiation that comes with the payload you are suggesting.
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