From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: SaPeIsMa@HotMail.com
Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention
"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
news:pbi477p83t04dfqi44h19psou7l9b623up@4ax.com...
> 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.
>
My bad..
I did mean a sling.
There are a couple of good sites on how to build your own sling
This is one of many
http://slinging.org/
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