Re: Lasers can't be defended against?

In a message dated 4/26/00 7:40:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
nyrath@clark.net 
writes:

<< Heh.  I remember in the old E.E."Doc" Smith LENSMAN novels
    (circa 1940) they use magnesium "star shells" in their space
    battles, in order to illuminate the combatants in the
    darkness of deep space.
  >>
"Doc"'s PhD was in Agricultural Chemistry - not physics. I have a
numbered 
and autographed first edition of his second lensman book with a tattered
but 
intact dustcover if anyone is seriously interested.