28th July 2003, 11:07 AM
It's a LASER! Length means NOTHING to it! MY theory is when it's turned on, instead of JUST light, a super hot metal rod telescopes out of the handle and glows. At least that makes sense. Fairies!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)