[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> You don't have to look far back to see many examples of superior
> technology burying a far more powerful foe. For example, there are
> several cases where a handful of stringbag airplanes sank capital
> battleships.
> 
> Stirling's "Island in the Sea of Time" is about bringing modern
> weapons to bronze-age battlefields.
> 


I havn't readit but Harry Turtledove's book also runs that idea around:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_the_South