Here's the disturbing part:
Hobbies like these are what make tomorrow's engineers and today's engineers better. We didn't land on the moon first without creating the environment where the truly curious and devoted could invest all of themselves in their vocations and avocations.
More unintended consequences of the paranoid looking for the evil in us all.
See reply #20.
Can you imagine if Benjamin Franklin had to operate in today's bureaucratic enviromnent?
He'd be fined by the EPA and FCC and raided by the BATF.
Most likely, he'd be doing jail time with the rest of the Founders if they were around today.