At 12:47 PM 7/28/01, "Erik Reuter" wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:19:43AM -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
> > Now you got me thinking. In SW all they have basically are laser
> weapons and
> > they seem to be as effective as guns, just they shoot photons instead of
> > bullets.
>
>Of course, they use special, low speed photons in their laser weapons.
And in both the ST and SW universes, space must be always filled with so
much dust & fog that you can _see_ the entire laser beam rather than just
the dot where it hits a solid surface . . .
(Anyone else recall Arthur C. Clarke's parody of weapons with visible beams
in _A Fall of Moondust_, and why what he describes is (intentionally) also
physically impossible?)
--Ronn! :)
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