RE: Danger and Fun
Should have watched the program on History channel about one of the NAR meets. People complain about the AMA safety code being restrictive? You ain't seen nothing. And, in reading the Pop Sci article myself, I also noted the reporter mentioned that for one of the launches at least, he had to be back 1000 feet from the launch pad.
This report reminds me of a report on an anti American demonstration in the 70s. A group of reporters thought the actual demonstration was kind of dead, so they paid a group of bystanders to put on another "Newsworthy" demonstration.
I personally wouldn't have thought PS would do something like this, but I guess even some of them have no problem with dressing up the news.