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"One can see the free software movement as a precusor for a "free hardware" or "free wetware" movement--one that will provide free libraries of designs for biological or nanotechnological products that replicators can be programmed to churn out."
- Charles Stross

Moon Weaponized  
  A military application of moons, planetoids and asteroids; dropping them from space.  


(Buck Rogers: the rocket ship gets in position)


(Buck Rogers: the rocket ship pushes a moon)


(Buck Rogers: the moon spirals in)


(The moon becomes incandescent as it hits Mars' atmosphere)


(Then, with a crash that shook the entire planet, it struck!)

Technovelgy from Buck Rogers, 2430 AD, by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins).
Published by Not Known in 1929
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