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From: BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #367
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 09:46:12 EDT
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From: Bard Bloom <BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA>


> Fourth and finally, consider how unlikely it is that even a Jedi
> knight could react to blaster fire fast enough to deflect it.  Far
> more reasonable that he (or she?) can "pull" the bolt towards his
> (her?)  sword.
> 

And, from a previous posting that I'm too lazy to find, words to the effect
of ``blaster bolts go so slowly that you can almost walk away from them.''
Sounds like a fast person could move a (virtually massless) sword to catch
them.

Since they are so slow, they don't sound like either energy or normal
projectile weapons.  Perhaps they're something really eccentric, like some
plasma wrapped in a magnetic field.  Or perhaps a large kamikazi mosquito
with a force field.  (Then the use of the Force to deflect them would be
mind control, which is probably a lot easier. 8-)  

> (Boy, does all this seem silly.)

But isn't it a lot more fun than fighting about DHALGREN?

Bard, whom the Force is _not_ with these years.
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