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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
unfortunately, I cant watch youtube from here.
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Been there and know how it feels.
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of course, we have to consider the possibility that any space weapon we build might be as useless as Nelson's 1805 fleet would be in 2010.
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100 something 1800s cannons targeting a civilian population center could be nasty today. Same could be said for an Orion, simply use it to divert a bunch of asteroids toward E.T. homeworld.
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The human race right now may be in the same position as the Native Americans in 1491 before they were "discovered" by "civilized" europeans. We all know how well that turned out...
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Yea they got casinos, and don't have to pay taxes!
Don't forget an "Injin" bow and arrow could kill a European easily and fire far more rounds per minute that a musket or rifled musket. It wasn't until the repeating rifle (like the Henry or Winchester) that the whites gained superiority. Of course at Custer's Last Stand take a guess what some of the Lakota and Cheyenne were armed with? Yep repeating rifles, stolen, captured or traded for.