[RightDeve]

I was thinking it was a normal mortar, hoping to score an impact-hit with its curved trajectory. That's just silly!

Now, that parashute thing is ingenious!

Well, in war soldiers need to be ingenious. Like what the Russians did by attaching hooks on their grenades so camouflage nets might catch them (airburst grenades!). Or an official recommendation by Hitler that troops use artillery fires and grenades to break up the steel-hard ice, for digging foxholes. Ah yes, they even lit up campfires under their trucks to thaw off oil & gasoline so it might "ignite."

But even weirder is the stories from the East Timor war, where rebels used magic and mystic rituals so bullets and knives won't affect them. Incredibly, these shenanigans work! Captured rebels were shot point blank with no effect whatsoever; ditto with bayonets & knive stabs. Nothing would do the trick except hanging; it is said the magic "wears off" if the person is lifted from the ground.

Atheists and evolutionists would offer "stories" for that, but I wouldn't buy it. There are supernatural things in this world, it's a fact.

Sorry for the OOT.