Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!sun!jsc From: jsc@sun.uucp (James Carrington) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Decline and fall of the StarWars Empire Message-ID: <2682@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 15:46:41 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2682 Posted: Tue Aug 20 15:46:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:28:44 EDT References: <3140@topaz.ARPA> <234@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> <3497@dartvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jsc@sun.UUCP (James Carrington) Organization: SUN Microsystems Workstation Division Lines: 16 > >On this silly subject, what did the armour in Star Wars ever do? All I >can recall is that it provided comm facilities, blast protection for >the eyes, and looked funky. Did any armour *ever* turn a shot? What's If you look carefully, or have the aid of a slo-mo button on your vcr, you can see a shot bounce off the helmets of two Rebel defenders aboard Leia's courier ship, before ricocheting into a wall in SW I (or IV, actually). That's the only instance I know off, and note that it happens with the /lightly\ armored rebels, not the almost-encased imperials. -- James Carrington Sun Microsystems Inc. Associate Engineer (Co-op Student, UCBerkeley) 2550 Garcia Ave. MS1-40 Workstation Division Mountain View CA 94043 NFS Department 415-960-7438