On Apr 9, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Ian Wood <xxxxxx@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> and the spear is now a rifle, which still sends a projectile to the target at range.

No. a spear is a projectile, and a bullet is a projectile but they’re not at all related. If you’re going to define technology in such vague terms, then well yeah, we’ve had a wheel for >5K years, so obviously a starship is just like a wheel, a way of moving from point a to point b.

They have had *starships* for 10K years.

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