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    OM  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:17:32 -0500, robertva   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Please explain how a tool kit intended for emergency repairs to a   
   > >spacecraft could process raw materials like wood, thatch, adobe or stone   
   > >to construct a house.   
   >   
   > ...If it has a flathead screwdriver, using a rock as a hammer can turn   
   > the screwdriver into an awl. And snow me an emergency toolkit for   
   > military use that doesn't have a Swiss Navy Knife thrown in as a   
   > nonstandard equipment issue, and I'll show you a crew chief in charge   
   > of outfitting emergency kits who'll wind up out of a job the first   
   > time an emergency turns up and that multipurpose knife ain't there.   
   >   
   > Thatching? Hey, you got scissors to cut the reeds. Adobe? Mix up the   
   > mud, mix in the reeds, use four hull plates in a box to form a mold,   
   > and you've got bricks. Need to spackle in adobe to fill in the cracks   
   > and act as cement? There's numerous pieces of hull plating that, if   
   > they didn't fit the shape needed, could be stress fractured to fit the   
   > need. Raw stone masonry might be a problem unless there's a spammer in   
   > that emergency kit, but large slate chips with adobe as the cement and   
   > caulk has been used for millennia with no problems.   
   >   
   > ...So far, the only real issue would be how to fell large trees if he   
   > wanted to make a log cabin, but show me a combat helicopter that   
   > didn't have some det cord available to airdrop to ground troops so   
   > they could quickly carve out a landing field, and I'll show you   
   > another crew chief in a world of shit upon discovery of lack of said.   
      
   Plus he's got a working spacecraft with laser weapons.  That should help   
   against a tree.   
   >   
   > Bottom Line: because we're so rooted in our technology, don't let that   
   > blind you as to how resourceful humans can be in the wild. That's what   
   > intelligence is for, remember?   
      
   What he said.   
      
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