On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Harold Ancell wrote:

Stereotypes have their utility; I didn't watch ID4, but we'd certainly
use our personal weapons on alien invaders.  I suspect smart aliens
would start with countries that have been disarmed by their
governments, like yours will be in short order....

Oh please, like a bunch of people with guns and no organization would be 
any threat to any species capable of getting here.  If aliens invade, 
we're screwed, pure and simple, because just to get here in reasonable 
amounts of time will require a level of technology that will make us look 
like we're still using rocks.

Ob fanfic:

The Dread Space Pirate's new Ranma/Wheel of Time crossover is *great*,
but subtly disturbing, becuase the WOT sections go *much* too fast
compared to the original novels :-)

Heh :)

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