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Lack of training cited in Mojave spaceport blast

Andrew

Nitrous Oxide eh? 

Coat

...that's no laughing matter.

ImaGnuber

Spare Change 

So a little over $8600 per dead worker (the remainder should cover the injured). Industrial safety is cheap in California! I assume the families' lawyers will crank the total up.

Fluffykins

@Andrew 

But it's a real gas!!

Louis Cowan

Terrible jokes 

Join my NO2badjokes protest!

Anonymous Coward

@terrible jokes 

Coat

hilarious, unfortunately it's N20

the lab coat please...

kain preacher

CEO 

just spray the CEO's ankles with of liquid nitrogen :)

Rich

Hippy crack / just say no! 

Flame

Especially in railcar quantities.

It's unsurprising that a lot of these high-altitude rocket (sorry, "space") efforts have difficulty getting oxidiser from understandably wary suppliers.