From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: gunnerasch@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:52:54 -0500, "SaPeIsMa"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Bruce Sinclair"  wrote    
   >in message news:j4s02s$sh2$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> In article    
   >> ,    
   >> Marcovaldo  wrote:   
   >>>On Sep 14, 4:19=A0pm, Yousuf Khan  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>>From the transcript:   
   >>>   
   >>>"The Metrons, the creatures that sent us both here,   
   >>>said that the surface of the planet...   
   >>>provides the raw material...   
   >>>to construct... weapons.   
   >>>There's very little here-- scrub brush, rocks,   
   >>>an abundance of mineral deposits--   
   >>>but no weapons in the conventional sense".   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> .. then a rock - pretty conventional ... and can be thrown and wielded.   
   >> Multipurpose. :)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >Slingshot   
   >    Very effective at close, middle and long range   
   >    Some armies had more slingshooters than archers.    
      
   A sling is rather different than a slingshot.  Albeit both can launch   
   rocks.   
      
   Everyone here should make up a sling and play around with it.  Its   
   surprising now fast you can learn to use one effectively.   
      
   Gunner   
      
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