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| 'Let's make our own rockets' | |
| 2008-02-12 | |
| A new Facebook group is urging Sderot residents to use the Internet to learn how to build crude rockets, much like the Kassams launched at them from the Gaza Strip, and fire them back at the Palestinians. The group, which currently has 45 members, posts material from the Internet on how to manufacture rockets. Facebook, a social networking site that has taken the on-line world by storm, allows anyone to create groups and to invite people to join. The group's creators, Shai and Batya Messenberg from Petah Tikva, posted a description that reads:
The description encourages residents of the town to trawl the Net for information on how to build ballistic missiles from materials found in the home. "I'm sure that very soon they [the Gazans] will get the message," the group's creator wrote. A link to NASA's Rocket Science 101 tutorial can also be found on the Facebook group's page. The tutorial allows users to choose from a menu of rockets to assemble, although the NASA rockets are much larger and more complex than the Kassam. The message goes on to say that Sderot residents can also do their part in cutting off the flow of Israeli electricity to the Gaza Strip, "even if the High Court of Justice won't allow it," by finding someone with a tractor who is willing to drive into nearby electrical poles. The Gaza Strip receives 70 percent of its electricity from Israel, the vast majority of which is produced at the Rotenberg Power station in Ashkelon. The group's logo picture shows a Palestinian Kassam rocket crew preparing to fire, with the words "This could be you" scrawled in red across the photograph. The new group joins about 50 other Facebook groups in support of Sderot, such as Save Sderot, Stop the Kassam rockets in Sderot, Light a candle with Sderot, I stand w/Sderot, From 90210 to Sderot, Children of Sderot, Skate for Sderot, and For the residents of other towns in the western Negev not waiting for the next Kassam (this group is planning to ask every radio station in the country to simultaneously play the Color Red alarm - the one heard in Sderot when Kassam rockets are fired from Gaza - to increase awareness of Sderot's plight). | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 The Denver Mad Scientist group has developed a "pumpkin cannon" that can loft a round ball about a mile and a half, fairly accurately. I'm sure they'd share their secret. I'm not sure, but I think it uses propane as a propellent - something easy to get in Israel. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-02-12 23:18 |
| #10 Perhaps they should invite the good people of Delaware to help. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2008-02-12 21:16 |
| #9 I love it. But be careful. These things are dangerous. I would explore every method for these civilians to get their revenge. Can the cut phone lines? Gas mains? Water? |
| Posted by: jds 2008-02-12 20:06 |
| #8 Actually, this story has been written... http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/sf_and_society/66815 |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-02-12 12:59 |
| #7 Sinse has a good idea... Dead rats, garbage, ofal etc.... all good fun... Label it a pumpkin chucking contest... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-02-12 11:52 |
| #6 yeah build a trebuchet and start getting rid of all your garbage old cars and such on the other side |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-02-12 10:23 |
| #5 Wish I could disagree, A5089. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-02-12 09:43 |
| #4 They're Israelis. Whatever they make may be simple, but it won't be crude. It will be good therapy for the children, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-02-12 08:42 |
| #3 "It cannot be so difficult: If those retards from the Gaza Strip can do it then so can you." Too good not to repeat. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-02-12 08:09 |
| #2 So when does the Sderot Rocketry Club sponsor their first bowling ball lofting competion? My advice go for APCP rather than Sugar Baby propellent. |
| Posted by: bruce 2008-02-12 07:41 |
| #1 The israeli gvt had no qualm expelling its own citizens en masse to evacuate gaza and turn it over to hamas. What make those (rightly so) concerned Sderot citizens think the israeli authorities won't crack down on them, and hard, for launching rockets and endangering the Peace Processor™? And you can bet that unlike paleos; gunmen, none of those "domestic terrorists" would be pardoned and released early if/when convicted. I'm not saying this is a bad idea, in fact, like 'moose's plan, this is pure common sense in face of the official lack of any meaningful response to this attrition warfare, but it's just it wouldn't fit into the israeli overall "land for pieces" policy, and they would be thumped. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-02-12 03:03 |