From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 20:39:44 MDT
It seems that some US troops were doing this quite recently:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_771853.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
A minority of the MIT Science Ficiton Society thinks that these marines
should read Larry Niven's "Folk Tale" so they'll know the proper way to
hunt gazells:
http://www.mit.edu/~mitsfs/minutes/2003/04-18/
At 10:33 AM 5/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I would suppose that the first use of weapons in humans
>was stones, hurled like a pitched baseball. Perhaps this
>even predated chasing carnivores from their kill using
>a burning branch.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign
to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your
opponent is the ignorant one-until you can show it isn't you.
-M.N. Plano
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