The Great Emu War: A Flightless Victory

You humans split the atom. You went to the moon. But in 1932...

you lost a war to giant, flightless birds. This isn't a joke. It is the Great

Emu War. Australia had a problem: twenty thousand emus were destroying their

crops. So, the government sent the Royal Artillery. Major Meredith led

the charge with Lewis machine guns and ten thousand rounds of ammunition. He expected a massacre.

But the Emus... they downloaded a combat update. They split into small guerrilla

squads. They dodged bullets like they were in a simulation. One bird took five

bullets and kept running. The Major literally wrote in his report that the Emus had