The Off Topic Topic

[Neil]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

[jimmy olsen]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

They also built their own submarine.

[Neil]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

They also built their own submarine.

Morally wrong.

[Habbaku]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Are they planning to send it back down?

Once they go up, who cares where they come down?

[Habbaku]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

They also built their own submarine.

Morally wrong.

Do you think the crossbow should be banned, too?

[jimmy olsen]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Are they planning to send it back down?

Once they go up, who cares where they come down?

Actually the parachute failed, so thankfully it was an unmanned test.

[Malthus]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Are they planning to send it back down?

Once they go up, who cares where they come down?

"That's not my department" says Wernher von Braun ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

[Barrister]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

They also built their own submarine.

Morally wrong.

Do you think the crossbow should be banned, too?

It already is.

[Malthus]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

They also built their own submarine.

Morally wrong.

Do you think the crossbow should be banned, too?

It already is.

When I was 12, my dad and I built a crossbow using a 1950s home mechanics diagram and an old car spring.

I wonder just what the legal situation would be like these days ... 

[jimmy olsen]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

They also built their own submarine.

Morally wrong.

Do you think the crossbow should be banned, too?

It already is.

You can hunt with a rifle or shotgun, but not a crossbow? What's the reasoning behind that law?

[Barrister]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Boring.

They also built their own submarine.

Morally wrong.

Do you think the crossbow should be banned, too?

It already is.

When I was 12, my dad and I built a crossbow using a 1950s home mechanics diagram and an old car spring.

I wonder just what the legal situation would be like these days ... 

Any crossbow which is designed or altered to be fired by the action of one hand, or has a length not exceeding 500mm, is a prohibited weapon and thus illegal.

The purpose, to answer Superman's Pal's question, is similar to how handguns are highly restricted - any large device that requires two hands to use, like a rifleor bow is felt to be less threatening (and have more legitimate purposes) than one designed to use only one hand.

[Malthus]

Any crossbow which is designed or altered to be fired by the action of one hand, or has a length not exceeding 500mm, is a prohibited weapon and thus illegal.

The purpose, to answer Superman's Pal's question, is similar to how handguns are highly restricted - any large device that requires two hands to use, like a rifleor bow is felt to be less threatening (and have more legitimate purposes) than one designed to use only one hand.

We'd be in the clear - you sure as shit couldn't use that thing we built with one hand. Even with two, it was problematic. 

[Habbaku]

Oh, well they're Danish amateurs who are building a manned space rocket they plan to send 150 km up on a a budget of only a few tens of thousands of dollars.

That was a test launch.

Are they planning to send it back down?

Once they go up, who cares where they come down?

"That's not my department" says Wernher von Braun ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

[Habbaku]

Any crossbow which is designed or altered to be fired by the action of one hand, or has a length not exceeding 500mm, is a prohibited weapon and thus illegal.

  So 'the crossbow' is not illegal, but only certain ones.

[Valmy]

  So 'the crossbow' is not illegal, but only certain ones.

Heh I think the purpose is to regulate what sorts of crossbows get sold rather than a chance to arrest amateur crossbow builders.