From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: tanakasan@hushmail.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   On Sep 15, 1:10apm, Yousuf Khan  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   That would not have cut it either. Kirk picked up a rock about the   
   size of a basketball, and hurled it at the Gorn from close range with   
   no effect. The Gorn was superhumanly tough. Even the cannon that Kirk   
   finally used didn't kill the Gorn.   
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