Yeah...'tis true. But I think even of BSG. Although the pure scifi guy in me didn't like the use of ballistic weapons in the handguns and Viper guns, I have to admit they'd be more efficient and effective than particle or light-based weapons.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 2:30:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons True but you know, the military industrial complex has to make it fancy so they can make $15 Billion off of it. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: I think of the devastation the Centauri caused to the Narn in B5, as they used mass drivers to essentially send giant boulders screaming toward the planet below. As fancy as all the EM and robotic stuff is, just dropping junk on someone--or even sending simple ballistic missiles ship-to-shop--would be most devastating. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:51:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons Holy CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse < brent_wodeho...@thefence.us > wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
