Block That Kick
From the same species of animal that built beautiful Mayan pyramids only to throw virgins from the top of them, the flying dual machine guns, with handheld bomb dropping action.
Noting that some pilots used far more ammo than expected to kill each other, great big brains (who, surprisingly, didn't actually shoot at each other in planes like the lowly pilots did) invented the incendiary bullet, which only required one or two to strike a fellow human's plane to set it aflame. Balloons were even more dramatic to blow up, shoot down.
Parachutes were invented much too late in the opinion of shot down WWI pilots, who very patriotically kept complaints about falling to death while burning to death to themselves for the most part.
Fortunately, after this brief and terrible period, everyone realized that war is truly fucked up, and no one ever participated in another one again.
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Ted Opderbeck gave props (14 Jun 2009):
You would have hoped that aerial combat would have gone in the same direction as trench warfare after WWI. Truly an ironic term: "The Great War" unfortunately never became the "War to End All Wars"
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Rob Case gave props (21 Aug 2009):
We humans really CAN see the errors of our ways! I guess that's what makes us so smardt?
