@Purple Dave: I am now educated. thanks!

@im2fools: Err ... what? ts; nd (too short; no details). Anything that would rather 'burn' water and spit out hydrogen needs a handle with care label.

@im2fools: 2/3rds of the planet is covered in it. ya got nuthin to worry about. Worry about the magic sand instead.

@out.of.cheese.error: I'm pretty sure New Zealand is not technically a continent. But in any case I think he means the European age of discovery, in which case humans were already there.

"What ambitious tot hasn't thought about defending humanity while strapped into a glorious death-dealing battlemech, right?"

@Purple Dave: What's odd is that they are called 'shells'. In every other small arm people use 'bullets' (yeah that's wrong too, but its consistent). In artillery shells are the projectiles that go boom - exploding bullets.

@Althamiel: true, true. The limitations were consistent and plausible. And I really did enjoy that first series and to be fair the second wasn't bad, just tried.

@Purple Dave: Now you've got me wondering about shot gun shells...

@EtrnL_Frost: fair enough. I'm not really qualified to speculate, but what the hell this is the internet and everyone's an expert right?

@Steve Climaco: It's on the internet. I'd elaborate, but as the Zuckster already summarized it best with two words, I don't have to.

@bzr: that, I did not need to know.

@Purple Dave: We are basically agreeing, except on the rifling. (Since we're taking about cannon balls and shells, we're talking about an era while shells were still being developed and cannons were not rifled).

Why did I watch the video, before reading the text?

@Cleesox: yes. yes it does.

@Bustout: I look forward to meeting my evil twin. I plan to grow a goatee and then shave it off; then repeat each week. It will be fun to see how evil me reacts.

I have to call these biologists on their misappropriation of the word Fossil.

@FrequencySpike: Its not the re re re releasing that has me riled. It's that he's re releasing in (gasp) 3D!

@EtrnL_Frost: no the Hawking radiation is the energy escaping.

@Bustout: that's the one million 42 thousand dollar question, isn't it? No one can tell until we meet your naked faced twin.

@PlaidNinja: Ha! punny.