Re: Militias and Rifles
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 00:43:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Militias and Rifles
>This is a misunderstanding of how grenades are used. You can't
lob a 20 mm or 40 mm
>launched from a rifle around a corner or roll it down a hole or
cook it off and toss hook
>it around a doorframe or arc it over a hedgerow where the
enemy is two meters away on the
>other side.(Or do a whole bunch of stuff.)
Wire the grenade to the doorframe and the pin to the door, for
example. No need to be there in person.
Of course, in 2187, the grenades may be something the size of a
saucer. You say to it "there's a tank over that way, go get
it", while pointing with the hand holding the grenade. Its
inertial recorders note which direction you're pointing it, and
it dutifully heads off in that direction, gliding using its
ducted fan center. When it sees a tank, it goes and does
something about it.