From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: How to handle missiles?
Date:	Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:11:56 +0200

>> "WHAT?!? A missile heading for me? No problem - I reach into my pocket,
>> pull out the shredded tinfoil I never leave home without, and throw it in
>> the air ... what do you mean, 'resist'?
>
>Actually, it may just make the missile aim at something besides them.
>However, given the likely range you could throw shredded tinfoil, that
>something is probably about a meter away... oops. :)

It might just work -- a missile with an impact fuse would fly through the
tinfoil and miss the character (though you'd likely get burned because of
the missile's exhaust at the very least :).
A proximity-fused missile OTOH will blow up no matter what when it gets
close enough to the target...

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