In their defense, it was a LONG time ago, and like REALLY REALLY far away…

Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this page of text, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone’s day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not “eyeball it!” This is a paragraph of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!