01-20-2014, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Jerry Irvine
I am not sure if the current safety code says it, but one specifically said testing not fully compliant with all rules could be conducted in isolation.
And if it and NFPA-1122 doesn't say that through the various "codifications", we have lost a right, not priviledge, we had and safely exercised for decades, in the name of "perceived safety".
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That's true--the Safety Code mentions (or did mention--I'm looking at the 1994 Sixth Edition of Stine's "Handbook of Model Rocketry" right now) the following:
"12. Prelaunch Test. When conducting research activities with unproven model rocket designs or methods I will, when possible, determine the reliability of my model rocket by prelaunch tests. I will conduct the launching of an unproven design in complete isolation from persons not participating in the actual launching." But:
To be brutally honest, I don't give a rat's rump whether some piece of paper somewhere says that I have--or don't have--a right to do anything (in model rocketry or life in general). If I want to do something, and it will harm no one else (because I'm doing it by myself, in this case), I will do it. I am not a Wiccan, but I live by their Rede, which (in modern English) says: "If it harms none, do what you wish." |