Squid can fly.

Not that far, mind you. And it doesn't happen often. But that's probably what they said about the ancestors of Archeopteryx.

It's official canon that a lightsaber is a short beam of very powerful destructive force, like a chainsaw or a blowtorch. Only Jedi (or Sith) can use them because you need the skills of a Jedi not to injure yourself or someone else with such a powerful weapon.

But what if it's the opposite?

It actually makes more sense to me if the blade of a lightsaber is an extraordinarily weak, but extremely precise force. The Jedi are so attuned to the Force that they can find the spaces between individual atoms and sever the bonds holding a wall or an arm together. Similarly, they can find the force of another lightsaber and block its passage. But a non-Jedi like me or Admiral Ackbar would find it easier to injure someone with a laser pointer.


This idea is based on the Taoist text Cutting Up an Ox in which a butcher explains that his skill at ox-dividing is due to the Way. He sees the "spaces in the joints" and makes so little effort that his blade is still sharp after 19 years of use.

A small octopus at the Santa Monica Pier aquarium disassembled the recycling system valve at the top of her tank and flooded the building with 200 gallons of seawater.

The tiny octopus, which is about the size of a human forearm when its appendages are extended, floated lazily in the water that remained in its tank.

It watched intently through glass walls and portholes as workers struggled to dry the place out in time for the day's first busload of schoolchildren to arrive on a 9:30 a.m. field trip.

The only significant damage was to new flooring in some offices.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-octopus27-2009feb27,0,3764268.story

Scientists discover first-ever single-element ionic crystal. It is made entirely of boron.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128215130.htm