Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for October 25, 2009

Amature invaders!

Well it was worth a try….

But seriously, don’t discount those rocks. Remember “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon” from the late 90’s? Now those were rocks…

Yeah, you just gotta throw them thar rocks jus’ hard enuff!

Hey, if you chuck a rock at them at five miles a second, it can do alot of damage.

Didn’t Heinlein get a lot of mileage out of rocks in “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?”

Forget rocks, think “Brilliant Pebbles”.

…we see your Pebbles & give you—- BAM BAM!

Anybody ever read Footfall? That was one of the invaders’ worst weapons: rocks…big, fast ones…

PAPER…I win.

I do miss Heinlein.

Footfall is excellant! Yeah, and I miss Azimov the most.

To invade a planet, a two prong approach is useful. First, you take out the cities with aimed asteroids. Then you expose the survivors to a biological pathogen that is deadly to them but harmless to your species. You don’t want to give their best minds a chance to find a cure and you don’t want to leave an insurgency. This is probably the only way to ‘win’ in Afghanistan by the way.

Give them a Nobel Peace Prize. That will keep them from doing ANYTHING.

I remember in Babylon 5 when the Centauris devastated the Narn homeworld by essentially dropping big rocks on it from orbit. ANYTHING dropped from orbit will be a WMD.

Borrow? He must have rocks in his head!

Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains really turn me on.

“The worst they can do is say ‘No.’” It’s a good attitude, and sometimes gets you some surprising yesses. But it’s not true with Pam. She can do a lot worse. Those guys got off really lucky.

Maybe not, Ray C. - we’ve been escorted out of the theater in mid-film, Pam still has that ray gun, and there are still plenty of sitting ducks, er, UFOs out there.

Pam is Earth’s best deadly weapon.

Speaking of Football: The STEELERS SPANKED The VIKINGS!! No, Seriously that was a WELL played game.

Ooooh, kinky (or is that kinkier?)

Lower intelligent species never win.

Heinlein used rocks in “THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS” and the aliens used rocks in “FOOTFALL.”