From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   On 15/09/2011 3:45 PM, Marcovaldo wrote:   
   > On Sep 14, 8:48 pm, bruce.sincl...@NOSPAMORELSEagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz   
   > (Bruce Sinclair)   
   >>   
   >> .. then a rock - pretty conventional ... and can be thrown and wielded.   
   >> Multipurpose. :)- Hide quoted text -   
   >   
   > Kirk *does* hit the Gorn with a rock, a pretty big one in fact. It   
   > just bounces off harmlessly. Then the Gorn picks up a boulder the size   
   > of a Volkswagen and throws it at Kirk.   
      
   If a hand-thrown rock doesn't cut it, then a slingshot rock will have    
   much more energy. It's all a matter of getting enough energy into it.   
      
   .Yousuf Khan   
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