NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/talk/bizarre/37175

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From: [e-mail] (The Steel General's Batsman)
Subject: Re: highway riding
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:51:41 GMT
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[e-mail] (Jeff Carroll) writes:

]
] In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
]   In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (C J Silverio) writes,
]   allowing as how she didn't *know* that motorcycling could be *dangerous*:
]
]     (short shameful sermon elided)
] >
] > mini land torpedoes.
] >
] > automatic tire-homing guidance. fire and forget.
] >
]
] *tire-homing*? seems as though this would impart undesirable angular momentum
] of unpredictable sense in the xy-plane, possibly causing an ugly road hazard
] unless you have installed VTOL conflagration-jumping rockets on your vehicle.
]
] Better the heat-seeking missile lobbed forward at about 60 degrees from
] horizontal, targeting the engine block.
]
] Or the large-caliber fender-mounted automatic cannon.
]


but there is something to be said for the look on the face of a man who
now has to deal with the fact that there is a whaling harpoon sticking
out of the hood of his car.


"this is kind of a funny story, officer..."