[meteorite-list] Global warming? Blame Tunguska

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:10:24 +0100
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B31293CF7_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

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-----
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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Rob
McCafferty
Sent: 21 June 2007 23:37
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Global warming? Blame Tunguska

 
> In a message dated 6/20/2007 3:51:07 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> markf at ssl.gb.com 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)


       
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