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From: sher@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: YASTF (Yet Another Star Trek Flaw)
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Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 22:08:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 22:08:53 1983
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About phasers, Someone talked about a phaser beam proceeding at one
foot per nanosecond.  Who ever said that phasers were fast?  What if a
beam proceeded at one foot per millisecond.  Would you notice the
difference?  Phasers were always rather strange anyway.  They seemed
to do what ever you wanted them to do.  I am not sure but I believe
that they even made differently shaped holes in the wall to the
convinience of the user.  This has led me to believe that phasers are
at least partially psychic devices.  Federation officers were so much
better at shooting than Klingons and so much harder to hit because of
this. 

-David Sher (ofttimes AI project)