Reply #68: oh, this is precious [View All]

[northzax]

Detailing a gun as simply a machine to propell a projectile at high kinetic energy in a specifed direction is ignoring the essential nature of that projectile, which is to destroy what it hits. Technically, of course, you are completely correct, but it is like describing a gps-navigated bomb as 'a way to ensure an object, using only gravtiyy for propulsion, lands in a specified place.' you are ignoring why you would want such an object to land there, and what it does once it hits, which is destroy. When people start ignoring the essential purpose of a device in describing its technical specs, I wonder what they are hiding from.