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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by technofiend on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:21AM (#19500125)
Estes model rockets still offer a little bit of that wild freedom. You build something yourself and shoot it into the sky on a pillar of flame. And if you're really lucky you get it back in the end.
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by ryanmercer on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:29AM (#19500169)
>Estes model rockets still offer a little bit of that wild freedom

Until you get arrested for trespassing launching or retrieving, or you take out someone's drone and they sue you, or it lands on someone's property and they sue you, or someone calls protective services because "a couple of yutes were playing with 'explosives', no parent in sight".

Sigh. :(

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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by technofiend on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:38AM (#19500228)
I almost said freedom and uncertainty but yeah it requires some planning and some common sense. Like finding a large enough area you won't land on a house and if the wind takes it you let it go. Mine often fed the trees. :shakes fist: Damn trees!
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by slavik81 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:16AM (#19501679)
Good luck finding anywhere legal to launch them. None of the places I used as a kid can be used anymore.
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