[XBob]

we do a lot of moronic things in this country, (and especially in the government and NASA) because of moronic regulations. Did you ever see the 1 3/4" thick regulation from OSHA on how to design a toilet seat, which all government procurement departments had to comply with?

I was on the freon transition team, where we in the early 90's started programs to totally stop using freon in the space program by 1995 (implementation of the Monteral anti-freon convention the US had signed in about 1988 or 89). We used freon to clean all the parts before assembly. We replaced it by using de-mineralized water, with no cleaners/surfactants, or anything, just plain water.

[lepton]

we do a lot of moronic things in this country, (and especially in the government and NASA) because of moronic regulations.

As I noted somewhere earlier today: We had to rebuild all of our nuclear warheads to comply with EPA regulations on CFCs in order to make them more environmentally friendly. The warheads used CFCs for part of the cooling system.