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Yesterday's scan of Slashdot alerted me to a quaint, if not strange development in my native state. The state of Oklahoma has established a private rocket launching center, the Oklahoma Spaceport in the Southwestern Oklahoma town of Burns Flat. Partnering with Doom creator John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace , the Spaceport attempted its first rocket launch this month, with a questionable degree of success, which makes me wonder why anyone would put a Spaceport in a town called "Burns Flat." The rocket was powered by compressed hydrogen peroxide, which turned to steam when it came into contact with a metallic steam. I think I was in my twenties before I ever visited far Western Oklahoma, and, boy howdy, is that place flat, arid, and desolate - it makes you realize why they call the Tulsa area "Green Country."