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From: newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au (Mad Hamish)
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Subject: Re: xkcd: Range Safety
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:17:45 +1100
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by: Mad Hamish - Tue, 6 Feb 2024 03:17 UTC

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 20:03:47 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
<tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> schrieb:
>> In article <un7f7r$3qsri$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>xkcd: Range Safety
>>> https://xkcd.com/2876/
>>>
>>>I am fairly sure that I have never met a Range Danger Officer.
>>>
>>>Explained at:
>>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2876
>>
>> [Hal Heydt]
>> G. Harry Stine in his book _Rocket Power and Space Flight_ cited
>> the time a range saftey officer borrowed a rifle from a guard and
>> shot holes in the tanks of Viking rocket. After that incident,
>> tanks had targets painted on them to show where to shoot should
>> the problem recur.
>
>What problem was that?

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Subject	Author
xkcd: Range Safety	Lynn McGuire
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Paul S Person
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Dimensional Traveler
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Paul S Person
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Robert Carnegie
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Jack Bohn
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Robert Carnegie
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Jay E. Morris
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Dave
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Joe Pfeiffer
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Quadibloc
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Paul S Person
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Thomas Koenig
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Jack Bohn
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Quadibloc
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Quadibloc
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Christian Weisgerber
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Quadibloc
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Chris Buckley
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Dorothy J Heydt
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Kevrob
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Scott Lurndal
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Paul S Person
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Christian Weisgerber
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Thomas Koenig
Re: xkcd: Range Safety	Mad Hamish