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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Advanced Weapons Research
Message-ID: <315@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 23:43:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.315
Posted: Thu Sep  5 23:43:47 1985
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In article <313@gymble.UUCP> fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) writes:
>> 
>> This doesn't surpise me in the least.  What *I* want to know is...
>> "Can you accelerate a cotton ball to any significant velocity and punch
>> a nice clean hole through a human being's head?" . . .
>
> I find it far more effective to accelerate my intended victim's head to
> .75 the speed of light, and aim it at a brick wall. I did this to
> Speaker once, and now all he does is post messages to net.bizarre.

Ho ho ho that's rich I'll say zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

It is, of course, impossible to punch a clean hole in Fred's head since
his cranium is completely filled with cotten.  Nice fuzzy, soft
cotten.  Now you MIGHT just be able to accelerate a projectile through
his cranium and manage to make a crisp round hole...  but the cotten
would come flying out the other side and make a mess of the room.  It
would also stick out the back of his head in tangled yard-long strands
sort of like some kind of new-wave punk haircut...

Not to mention the awful smell of singed fiber all over the place.