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Tens of thousands of years ago, Man hit Man with rock. He also hit Man with sharp stick, and then spears. Eventually Man figured how to throw rock, and throw stick. And then came the sling and bow, with which Man could throw rock and stick much harder, faster and farther. Man also sharpened rock, for stabbing.

This was how it was for millenia. Man would sometimes build devices for throwing much larger rocks and spears, and sharpened metal, but it was all the same principle. Then Man developed gunpowder. He put a rock in a tube and propelled the rock by a contained explosian. There was also the bomb, which was an exploding rock. Over the following centuries, Man refined this, making the rocks go faster and be deadlier, but it was still a rock shot from a tube.

Man turned the tube around, and put a rock at the end, and made missiles and rockets. Nuclear bombs are rocks being split at a sub-atomic level. Lasers are rocks focusing light. Online research shows me experimental weapons. A railgun propells a rock with magnets. An asteroid as a weapon is basically rock falls, everyone dies.

But in the end, it comes down to Man being unable to rise above his primal nature. Man hits Man with rock or stick, and one Man dies, and the cycle continues.

As it seems the past few days have been dedicated to what can only be described as "hypothetical" questioning, I am now going to attempt to steer the community in a different direction. Polling.

How old is the average poster here? If you feel uncomfortable divulging your age, you may pick a range.