Re: Alien habits and pet peeves

Quoting Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net>:

> On  7-Mar-02 at 09:51, Brian Bilderback (bbilderback@hotmail.com)
> wrote:
> > Quoting katie@fysh.org:
> > 
> > 
> > >Actually, having thought about this, all this demonstrates that
we're
> on 
> > >the
> > >side of the puny Europan Federation instead of being with the
> mighty
> > >Jovian Empire... with their massive resources and /unlimited/
> manpower...
> > >damn,  does
> > >NO-ONE think these things through?
> > 
> > *sniff*
> > One would think, were the Jovians all THAT mighty, they'd have been
> able to
> >  stop Shoemaker-Levy 9 from delivering a whole tanker of
> gravity-served 
> > whoopass on them, let alone a puny Terran artificial satellite.....
> 
> Oh great, now we are going to be blamed for that one also.

Hey, maybe it wiped out the last political opposition on the planet?
There 
might be a bright side to all this after all!