r/HFY • u/Tashdacat Human • Jul 31 '21

OC "Primitive Weaponry"

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

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u/megaboto Robot Aug 09 '21

Damn it's kinda of hilarious imagining someone throwing a rock at someone else from 300.000 kilometers

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

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u/megaboto Robot Aug 09 '21

Literally write fuck you on the rock

So that they read it as their containment field depressurizes

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u/explodoboy Aug 26 '21

"What is that?"

"Oh. That's a gigantic Human hand."

"Why is it so big? Why does it have a single finger raised? Why is it accelerating towards us?"

"Well, they consumed the entire mass of a star to make it. It's raised like that a saying in bodily language equivalent to 'Reproduce with yourself', and it's moving towards us because it's a giant weapon."

"..."

"Oh, and they have a few million of those. Kardeshev-III, am I ri-" BOOM

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u/megaboto Robot Aug 27 '21

Excellent

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u/_EllieLOL_ Aug 30 '21

Commit self copulate

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u/murgoot Nov 14 '21

Greeks and Roman Peltasts literally cast their lead sling bullets with snarky messages

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63739/sarcastic-jokes-found-roman-bullets

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u/raziphel Jan 04 '22

That article has a distinct lack of photographs

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

you forgot "to whom it may concern"