Hi Rob, As Sterling said, - mega practice.
- over 2 million years of modifying innocuous stones and sticks into perfect killing machines. (Sort of gets in your blood after a while!) We tend to forget that humans are evolutionary perfected to make flint tools, kill and hunt animals and eat mostly uncooked meat and berries. And its only in the last 0.000001% of their existence have we been any different! (and some may question whether we are any different now!) Your pencil analogy very funny btw! - Reminded me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_fighting Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob McCafferty Sent: 21 June 2007 23:37 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Global warming? Blame Tunguska > In a message dated 6/20/2007 3:51:07 AM Eastern > Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ....this 'NEO deflection technology' that is > being developed, could it not potentially also be > (technically at least) > used to steer an impact to occur onto a 'foreign > power's country'? > perhaps even with smaller rocks - A sort of 'natural > nuke'?... > What is wrong with this species??? :) Why do we instinctively modify innocuous technology to kill? I am increasingly coming to the opinion that the pencil was initially designed as a stabbing tool which gave the victim lead poisoning. When someone realised that it could be used to write with they probably thought "cool, you can use it to write the instructions on how to stab someone with it" (Yes I know pencils don't really contain lead) ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
