On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:48:00 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Fri, 14 May 2004 22:09:14 +0100, "Gareth Slee"
wrote:

http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/psa/

...Old news. It's the next generation version of that "soccer ball"
they tested for outside inspection of the Shuttle a few years back.
All it needs is a stun laser on it, and for the DoD to finally start
lightsaber development.

OM


Speaking of lightsabers (I'm sure you can see where this is going)
Has anybody ever figured if it's even possible? Anything I can think
of would still act like a flame when you tried to cut something with
it that wouldnt' give. Not to mention if you took two of them they'd
pass through each other. (And yes I'm aware that not everything in
Sci-Fi is even theoretically possible in the real world).