Shinji Ikari Raising Project

[robkelk]

"They're both what we call Gearheads. Car nuts, gun nuts, mecha nuts sort of people" "Best thing to say is, they're the sort of people who, if they discovered another asteroid was going to smash into their home in two years - instead of scooting out and just sticking a small thruster on it to inch it away and never worrying about it again, would spend the next 23 months rush-designing and building a Nu-Gundam replica to push it away at the last dramatic moment, just because they could."

See? That is what is wrong with the Gearheads. Wasting their time like that when they could have spent those 23 months designing an Absurdly Big Spacegun to blow up the asteroid (and possibly several nearby celestial bodies) at the last moment.

Well, that's the sort of thing that Noah Scott would do if he didn't think it was bad for business... and Noah suspects Ben Rhodes has already built a Spacegun and is just waiting for an excuse reason to use it.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012