[Repo Man]

Re: Splitting tech. It sounds like a good idea to split between an expensive item and a cheap item until you do the math. You get the expensive item in the exact same amount of time. By splitting tech, all you are doing is delaying the cheap item.

Re: Wave motion. It predates Star Blazers. Unless I am dreaming, it was first used on Bugs Bunny when our favorite rabbit encountered the martian, … the one with the broom on his head. That brings the wave motion gun to the 1950s or so.