Quote:True dat - take explosives for example: you can blow other people's shit up, you can blow shit up because it's in your way, or you can blow shit up just for the hell of it.
That is true of any new tech. People are going to do three basic things with new tech. Come up with a military use for it. Come up with practical non-military use for it. Come up with an amusing/entertaining use for it. These 3 may over lap.
(fails to keep a straight face and breaks down laughing)
Sorry, sorry, I was having a Oneshot Wong moment. The thing about useful space drives is entirely true, though, and one of the head-smacker plot holes in the few episodes of ST:Voyager I caught that made sure I didn't put much effort into catching more - the crew found this warp-capable giant missile flying along and aiming at a planet somewhere, and as the climactic finale they render the missile hamrles... by disarming the warhead. GDWTF!? Ignore for the moment that it has a functional antimatter fueld warp core, just slamming a planet at high impulse with a few thousand tons of drone is an extinction-level event, if the planet itself doesn't get cracked open. There's no need for a warhead in the first place.
I challenge you to find a military application for Tickle-Me-Elmo-style talking plush toys, though. No, air-dropping them on enemy encampments to break their will does not count.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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