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xkcd #2865: The Wrong Stuff (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why the Trojan horse? It was made out of what they had available.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

That's what I came in here to know about. Like, wasn't it wood? Didn't it do a great job?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Trojan horse wasn't made of Trojans, like the Spruce Goose wasn't made of Spruce. Nor was it made by Trojans nor filled with Trojans.
The name is misleading.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Usually horses aren't giant, nor are they made out of wood and Greeks.