• ashok36@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We invented the flame thrower. I know George Carlin did the bit best but… Imagine explaining that to a group of aliens.

    “You… you throw what now?”

    “Flames, bro.”

    “For what purpose…?”

    “Well, We had these people called Nazis and they liked to hide in concrete fortifications so we figured the best way to make them not be in there would be to fill it with fire.”

    “Does that not harm these ‘nazis’?”

    “Oh yeah, it harms them. That was like, a bonus.”

    “Well, It was nice meeting you. Goodbye forever.”

    • ricdeh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      … however, flamethrowers were fielded by the Germans first, and already in the previous World War.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Uh, you ought to read about what the British did in that war. They hid a bunch of massive, buried pop-up flame throwers in no-man’s land and used them to cook a bunch of Germans.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, most species take FOREVER to get the hang of projectile weapons and us big brained humans only took like 5.5 million years to perfect it! That’s practically no time at all!

    • ProfessorZhu@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The first wars were thought to be a bunch of people facing off and throwing rocks and sticks at each other. We’ve been throwing shit for as long as we could walk

  • demlet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just spent several seconds trying to figure out if “kobe” is some imaginary alien word I’m supposed to know from Star Trek or something.