6:45PM Tonight -East Coasters can see a rocket launch!

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Look at slide three of the slideshow in the news story. It's hard to make out, but you can see a small pickup truck (possibly a Toyota, but maybe an Isuzu) with a bed-mounted machine gun  (similar to this one: http://media.vocativ.com/photos/2013/06/toyota-body.jpg ) crash the perimeter fence, and start firing at the rocket's engines. The rocket then falls back to earth, and consumes the terrorists' suicide mission.

If such a thing were to hypothetically take place, it wouldn't be very likely that they would live long enough to get a shot off......................anyone that close to the pad would certainly not survive the launch.....................If the sound shock waves alone weren't enough to cause lethal compressive trauma, then the rocket exhaust blast would certainly finish the job..........

A few months after I graduated High School, my best friend and I decided to take a 2-week vacation from NY to Central Florida in September 1988................The highlight of that trip was getting to witness the Space Shuttle launch for the first time since the Challenger disaster in 1986................
It was STS-26 (Discovery)
We camped out overnight on the beach across the water from the launch pad....................We slept in/on my 1977 Trans-Am...............(got it stuck in the sand on top of a red-ant colony.................That was fun..... )
We were watching from approx 8 miles away from the launch that morning, and I still remember feeling the "Thunder" from the rocket engines pounding in my chest with a constant Booming, like a cross between a loud thunderstorm, a fighter jet afterburner, and a Top-Fuel Dragster..................................It was the single most powerful thing I have witnessed in my entire life!