25th January 2003, 3:47 PM
Heh, it is obvious with it's buzz and it's devicelike nature that it's basically something from Star Wars, but Star Wars wasn't the first to have a sword made of pure energy. They were just probably the first to make it technological instead of magical.
"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)