• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I’ve had Star Wars fans argue vigorously that a Jedi could deflect a cloud of buckshot with a lightsabre. I’m a Star Wars fan myself but that’s a sure sign of someone who’s gone completely off the deep end. It’s a very basic question of simple geometry - you can’t intercept every pellet in a three-dimensional cloud with a two-dimensional rod regardless of how fast your precognitive reflexes are.

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      11 months ago

      I’d sooner accept stopping all the pellets using the force, like Neo did in the second Matrix movie.

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      11 months ago

      it’s not even two dimensional, it’s one dimensional!