OT (sort of): India, Monkeys & Illwinter

[Autochthon]

As my old mentor once told me, "start w/the fundamentals".

Terrorist monkeys are like any other terrorist group (except furry and occasionally Sacred) - go after the head, and the body dies or loses focus.

Find the white monkeys. That is all.

[DigitalSin]

Hmm, does this make Aus safe? IIRC, theres no killer kangaroos or anything in dom3..

[Gregstrom]

There are spiders of all sizes in Dom3, though.

[Sombre]

I haven't noticed any small spiders in dom3. They all appear to be bigger than horses.

[DigitalSin]

Whew, we just have the extremely deadly ones

[HoneyBadger]

So the moose jumped through the window? and then everyone fled in panic...seems like a reasonable reason for panic.

Was that a 1st floor window? or was the moose wearing a cape?

Are the Indians planning to arm the tiger-riding monkeys?
If so, are we talking small calibre rifles, or uzis and rocket launchers?

What kind of military/industrial base does the smaller monkey opposition have access to? And are they to be considered terrorists or freedom fighters?

And do they possess armored rhino technology to counter the giant snake weapons?

[Autochthon]

HoneyBadger said:
So the moose jumped through the window? and then everyone fled in panic...seems like a reasonable reason for panic.

Was that a 1st floor window? or was the moose wearing a cape?

There was some mention of a jet pack, but I advise waiting until the investigation is concluded.

Are the Indians planning to arm the tiger-riding monkeys?
If so, are we talking small calibre rifles, or uzis and rocket launchers?

There have been some debate about giving them single-shot Explosively Formed Penetrators to allow the gov't. some deniability, but the Indians are reconsidering that due to Iranian EFPs still falling into the hands of the Coalition forces en route to use in Iraq.

What kind of military/industrial base does the smaller monkey opposition have access to? And are they to be considered terrorists or freedom fighters?

I prefer to use the ideologically-neutral terms, "insurgent" or "guerilla" (gorillaz? /rimshot) myself.

Great taste AND less filling!

And do they possess armored rhino technology to counter the giant snake weapons?

A waste of money, IMHO. It's been a well-established fact that the only creature than can defeat a genetically-engineered python is another genentically-engineer python.

[Sombre]

If you'd ever seen the hit film Python vs Anaconda you'd know that isn't true.

[HoneyBadger]

I believe that we've already done considerable groundwork on this forum towards establishing that even a Very-Large-And-Dangerous (VLAD) class snake will have a lot of trouble dealing with a similarly VLAD-class crocodile.

Naturally, a good deal remains to be speculated as regards the, so-to-say, "nature" of any genetic mutation that may be involved.

And regarding whether or not it's a good idea to put armor on rhinos, let us recall for a moment the words of Abraham Lincoln:

"In the course of human events, it need not be necessary for armored rhinos to be the solution to all our problems, it is only that we ask ourselves the question, "well, what about armored rhinos?" that matters."

[lch]

Zylithan said:
I was bitten by a moose once.

I was bitten by a monkey once when I was in India. I guess I was undermining his alpha status and he had to take action.