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Subj : Re: Nova Earth Colony Episode Spoiler Qs
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.sf.tv,mn.humor
From : Ken from Chicago
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 19:27:40

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise


"Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message 
news:5eiXe.92778$Ph4.2930597@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>>Radiation from an asteroid strike killed every colonist over 4 and drove
>>>> the rest underground.  70 years later, the colonists have guns.  How in
>>>> the world were 4 year olds able to maintain the knowledge of how to 
>>>> make
>>>> and maintain guns?
>>
>>
>> Computers
>>
>> Manuals
>>
>> Trial and Error (you didn't say EVERYONE under 4 survived to adulthood).
>
> "Let Mikey fire it! He'll try anything."

Actually Mikey survived handling of the gun--but it was when he mixed 
bullets and pop (aka soda pop) . . . well let's just say even if the kids 
understood radical emergency dentistry they wouldn't have been able to save 
him in time.

-- Ken from Chicago

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