Okay. Let's turn up the nerdiness a few notches and do a underpants gnome analysis of Kim.

The "alien horn spear" is quite easy to dismiss, so I do it first:

The probability for finding extraterrestial life - that has a horn - closley resembling the "alien horn spear" - and that actually can be used in combat - in less than 100 years is simply staggering.

The laser sword is actually more interesting, even though it as of today is not a practical issue.

The reason that the most practical combat application of laser is for targeting is not that a "death ray" laser demands a lot of juice, but that the energy losses is staggering. Laser light is actually ionizing the atmosphere. So if you discharge a strong laser in a room with really clean air (no dust particles that the laser can ignite) the laser will reveal its presence by telltale sparks.

There's this Airborne Laser (ABL) (http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/abl/index.html). But the ABL won't shoot down missiles with a single blast, but rather cook them until they deform and rips apart from aerodynamical stress (something that is possible beacuse of the missiles low angular velocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_velocity).) The ABL might see combat one day, but as of today it's the AA-equivalent to Schwerer Gustav (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav).

There is actually real laser knives, but the "business length" of beam is restricted by something as simple as a lens that disperses the beam.

The most interesting idea for a sword with (most of) the properties of the light sabers in Star Wars is actually found in System Shock 2 (if I remember correctly.) The blade is made of some polarized material that on impact will release the high-energy light. Too bad that the blade can't be retracted.

Poor Ashida Kim. Peddles bullshido by the weight and hasn't even the most basic understandings of science.

From a swordsmanship point of view, a light sabre would be arse to handle. The only weight would be in the hilt, as light weighs nothing (I assume, unless a pysics buff wants to correct me). Imagine how odd it would feel...

From a swordsmanship point of view, a light sabre would be arse to handle. The only weight would be in the hilt, as light weighs nothing (I assume, unless a pysics buff wants to correct me). Imagine how odd it would feel...

That's exactly why we need people like Kim to teach us how to use them!!!

But he doesn't teach light sabre techniques with aliveness, which is why it is unrealistic.

But he doesn't teach light sabre techniques with aliveness, which is why it is unrealistic.
Lightsaber practice with aliveness leads to deadness.

So maybe Ashida should try it. Then he could truly be one with the force.

From a swordsmanship point of view, a light sabre would be arse to handle. The only weight would be in the hilt, as light weighs nothing (I assume, unless a pysics buff wants to correct me). Imagine how odd it would feel...

"The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together"


That's exactly why we need people like Kim to teach us how to use them!!!

"The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded."

If you fought with light sabers which can cut just on contact, you wouldn't need to swing the sword, that would just be wasted movement. The fighting would probably be more like fencing.

The Broussard guy he's training with has a disability alright; he hangs around with Ashida Kim playing Jedis.

You would have to admit though, that a light sabre with a 50' room clearing beam, would have to have a handle about 35' long. That's a lot of C cell batteries for that kind of power. The belt clip would have to include a shoulder harness and you will probably need some assistance to avoid trouble going through doors. If you dropped it, forget that automatic "will the thing back into your hands " stuff. You're going to need to bend over to pick that sucker up. So you better carefully pick your assistents or at least keep them in front of you. It's all covered in the book most likely. A ninja would have all of this **** figured out. Except for those rotating door things. Yep, those would be a bitch for sure. Anyway, you probably should order that book right away because some day, someone is going to invent that stuff,

I can only hope Ashida Kim follows this up with a book on groundfighting while wearing twenty-story tall mecha robot armor.

The Broussard guy he's training with has a disability alright; he hangs around with Ashida Kim playing Jedis.

"Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"

If you fought with light sabers which can cut just on contact, you wouldn't need to swing the sword, that would just be wasted movement. The fighting would probably be more like fencing.
they do have lightsabers called "triggersabers" which have the ability to turn on and off the blade quickly, bypassing a parry strike.

to be certified for this Master Kim asks merely an additional $50 recognition.

From a swordsmanship point of view, a light sabre would be arse to handle. The only weight would be in the hilt, as light weighs nothing (I assume, unless a pysics buff wants to correct me). Imagine how odd it would feel...The weight of light is neglible. (Wave-particle duality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-particle_duality), gives me headache.) However, laser can actually be used for propulsion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion), but that's not the same thing as being able to go corps-à-corps with laser beams.

If you don't stick with the solution proposed in SS2, there's the "Star Trek" solution. The blade consists of: Hologram, forcefield (and something that "makes hurt".) But this doesn't makes anything easier. Why go through all this fuss when you can stab your enemies with a invisible, conic forcefield a couple of decimeters wide and a couple of meters in length?

And we are not even close forcefields...

Poor Ashida Kim that has no grasp on basic-basic science, much less critical thinking. He is the MA equivalent of those who gets high on string theory. (Yeah, they laughed at Einstein, but his theories produced nuclear reactors and weapons.)
I can only hope Ashida Kim follows this up with a book on groundfighting while wearing twenty-story tall mecha robot armor.That would actually be more useful than being able to fight with nonexistant energy weapons and body parts from undiscovered beings.


But given Kims firm grasp on about just everything, I think that he would blow it on something as simple as hyudralic pressure.

Poor Ashida Kim that has no grasp on basic-basic science, much less critical thinking.
The man has no grip on reality, I think expecting him to have grip on basic-science is a lttile too hopeful.

And here is a question. Why the hell would I want to learn the"Alien Horn Spear" if people have lazer swords? Seems like a bad idea.

"Never bring an alien horn spear to a lazer sword fight" is what my grandma always told me.

The man has no grip on reality, I think expecting him to have grip on basic-science is a lttile too hopeful.

And here is a question. Why the hell would I want to learn the"Alien Horn Spear" if people have lazer swords? Seems like a bad idea.

"Never bring an alien horn spear to a lazer sword fight" is what my grandma always told me.I like your grandma!

And if we only could smuggle Kim into Iran, Pakistan or North Korea and totally destroy their weapons programmes...

Anyway, I think it's better that he writes completley bogus non-fiction, rather than he soils the legit fiction.

I like your grandma!

And if we only could smuggle Kim into Iran, Pakistan or North Korea and totally destroy their weapons programmes...

Anyway, I think it's better that he writes completley bogus non-fiction, rather than he soils the legit fiction.

Not only were grandma's lazer sword fighting skills razor sharp, but her cookies were delicious.

Each country would have to throw down $10,000 before he would go destroy their weapons programs.

I think he should be banned from writing anything, ever.