From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   On 12/09/2011 6:45 PM, RichD wrote:   
   > So I was watching an old Star Trek, Kirk is marooned   
   > in a desert (looks like New Mexico), battling a gnarly   
   > alien.  He jerry rigs a howitzer, then gathers up   
   > minerals, and mixes them to manufacture   
   > gunpowder.  Of course. he flattens the alien on   
   > his first shot, and the galaxy is saved.   
   >   
   > Anyhoo, is that plausible, could one make   
   > gunpowder in a survival situation like that?   
   > With no chem lab equipment?   
      
   I would suspect that the first weapon that Kirk would've had to fashion    
   was a spear rather than a grenade launcher, in a more realistic version    
   of that episode. Need to crawl before you can run.   
      
   .Yousuf Khan   
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