From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: necessity is the mother of invention   
      
   ToolPackinMama  wrote in news:j4n516$lrh$1@dont-   
   email.me:   
      
   > On 9/12/2011 10:51 PM, Brad Filippone wrote:   
   >    
   >> As I recall, the Mythbusters reason that it wouldn't work was because   
   >> the bamboo cannon fell apart.   My rebuttal to that is that they   
   >> didn't use the bamboo that grows on the planet the Metrons put Kirk   
   >> and the Gorn on!   
   >>   
   >    
   > I saw a mythbusters where they created a successful log cannon.   
   >    
   > Kirk's improvised weapon was a prop in a TV show - the prop might have    
   > been bamboo, but the log Kirk used was not said to be "bamboo".  It was    
   > magic space wood.   
      
   A lot of space babes say Kirk had magic space wood.   
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