Re: retrograde technologies?

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat May 29 1999 - 15:33:11 MDT


> EvMick@aol.com wrote: ..but I think that Japan discovered
> gunpowder a loooooong time ago. They supressed it. The reasoning was that
> their culture was based on the Samurai....swordsmen. A swordsman is not much
> good against a gunman....

EvMick, that reminds me of the scene in Temple of Doom where a
samarai swordsman jumps out and intends to make sushi out of
Indiana Jones. hoyoooyaawoooyaaa, says he, twirling the swords.
Indy pulls his revolver and shoots the guy. I thought I would die
laughing at that. {8^D spike



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