[extropy-chat] ray gun

[Keith Henson]

At 01:44 PM 2/3/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>"Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>
>
> > Maximum dead on both sides: less than 70,000. cf. (Wiki:) Hiroshima:
> > 80,000. Nagasaki: estimated 70,000 people were killed outright with
> > another 70,000 doomed to die of bomb-related causes in the decades
> > that followed.
>
>The non nuclear firebombing of Tokyo killed at least 125,000 people,
>probably the bloodiest 6 hours in human history. The firebombing of Hamburg
>may have killed more but took a couple of days.

The original (stone age) evolved purpose of war was to kill a lot of 
warriors.  Modern wars are less discriminating.

Keith Henson