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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaldfont" data-source="post: 2742935" data-attributes="member: 1472">Waaaay back in junior high English class, I read a scifi short story about a scout sent to explore new planets. The R&D guys sent him along with an experimental disintegrator pistol. When he arrived, he was attacked by a pack of space-wolves. He disintegrated one of them, and when the rest of the pack kept coming, he remarked that a regular pistol shot probably would have scared them off. In the resulting fight, he ends up stuck in a hole made from a missed disintegrator shot. When he gets out, he finds that his shots have neatly sliced open his spaceship's fuel tanks.Months later, a rescue crew arrives. They find him living happy in a handmade log cabin with a nice stockade to keep out the local fauna. They ask him how the pistol worked out. He shows them the hammer he's using to pound in a fence pole--its the disintegrator.Sorry for the aside. This thread just reminded me of that story. I wish I could remember its author and title. The main character would much rather have had a hunting rifle.</blockquote>