[ot][spam] Thoughts: Mediums of Warfare

Karl Semich 0xloem at gmail.com
Fri May 20 03:04:30 PDT 2022


On 5/20/22, Karl Semich <0xloem at gmail.com> wrote:
> After millions of years, cellular biology did not evolve a litany of
> weapons.
>
> Rather, each species has one weapon. Antlers, poison. _only one_.
>
> This seems to be what worked.
>
> Personally, I'm imagining some kind of 'meta-virus': a lifeform that
> produces many different kinds of weaponry. Like other horrible ideas,
> this meta-virus would be a threat to every other lifeform. If it
> succeeded, life would end as all ecosystems would die.
>
> So, every living thing in existence, at some point in its ancient
> history, had to learn to eradicate things that eradicate everything
> else, and protect things that don't.

I'm guessing that part of what happens here is that opposing groups
actually neuter the weapons of overpowered threats. I'm not
experienced in strategic conflict.


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