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Lightsabers ultimate weakness??
Apr 21 2004 08:18am

o2b
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o2b
What would happen if you put a mirror in the lightsaber beam? being light it would reflect...correct?

Discuss :D

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Apr 25 2005 05:59pm

Mindrith Pride
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 Mindrith Pride

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guys lol, why u guys thinking aobut it so much :P tbh its simple :P just check out the anatomy of teh saber, ive seen them hunderds of times, its simple how they work :). some of the rust stuff i dont think george lucas cares :P

pffffffftt dont u hate it when he is right all the time? :P
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Apr 25 2005 05:31pm

Duffman
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 Duffman

*chuckles*
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Apr 25 2005 04:33pm

NotSoLittleCaesar
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 NotSoLittleCaesar

guys lol, why u guys thinking aobut it so much :P tbh its simple :P just check out the anatomy of teh saber, ive seen them hunderds of times, its simple how they work :). some of the rust stuff i dont think george lucas cares :P
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Apr 25 2005 04:21pm

Dunn'Canni
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 Dunn'Canni

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I think it has some sort of "standby" mode where it turns on as soon as you hit the button


Actually, that's another thing; Jedis' sabers turn off automatically when they get killed (see Qui-Gon or Obi Wan's death), yet I hardly think that the greatest thing on your mind when in your death throes is turning off your saber...
My point is, they must be in some way tied (through the force?) to their masters so that they turn off when the master dies.
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Apr 25 2005 04:41am

tarpman
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 tarpman

As far as the Episode I thing, Qui-Gon mentions that if you turn off the lightsaber's power source beforehand, water doesn't affect it. I think it has some sort of "standby" mode where it turns on as soon as you hit the button, and then a full-off mode for recharging, where it won't turn on by accident.
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Apr 25 2005 12:40am

Vasper Ba'xian
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its called Sci-Fi m8! they have everything we don't.
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Apr 24 2005 10:28pm

Dunn'Canni
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 Dunn'Canni

In Ep. I, Qui-Gon/Obi Wan swim through water with sabres on their hilts and it does them no harm...

Which begs the question: why don't sabres rust? Are they covered by an aluminium oxide coating - or is there some special metal that doesn't corrode available only in the SW galaxy?
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Apr 23 2005 06:11pm

R2D2
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 R2D2

Well Kit Festo didnt have a problem with water.
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Apr 23 2005 04:24pm

monkai
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Water would screw it up fool! :D

Apr 15 2005 01:30am

Akkarin
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 Akkarin

well the blade is made of plasma, and so if the field was disrupted, then out comes the plasma, and ok maybe no explosion, but definatly no more jedi :P

Apr 15 2005 12:34am

tarpman
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 tarpman

Disruption of a magnetic field does not automatically lead to an explosion - although it depends what you mean by 'disruption'.
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Apr 14 2005 07:06am

Akkarin
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 Akkarin

i don't think lightsabers use magnetic fields to contain the balde, because firstly, if that were true, when 2 sabers clash, wouldn't the magnetic fields be distupted by on another, causing the saber to blow up? and second of all, to defeat a jedi all u would have to do is throw a magnet at him and it will disrupt the field and blow him up.... right? i think...

Apr 11 2005 03:09am

tarpman
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 tarpman

Originally it was the one posted at the top here, but it evolved into a discussion of whether a lightsaber is physically possible and, if so, what is involved. I think it's pretty much dead though. :(
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Apr 05 2005 12:37am

Mic Den Octela
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 Mic Den Octela

... what was the question again? (:P)
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Apr 04 2005 04:55pm

SaZ
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 SaZ

well maybe but its would be dumb to watch your "jedi" punching siths one by one.
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Apr 04 2005 04:57am

tarpman
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 tarpman

Not when my character's STR is 34. :D
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Apr 03 2005 08:39am

SaZ
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 SaZ

i was thinkin about this reflect problem again.
you know in kotor you face sith soldiers.
and their armor is as reflective as mirror :P .
so if this reflect busines would work... we would be sqrewed coz there are so many of them... like stormtroopers :P
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Apr 02 2005 02:38pm

.
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The lack of defense against a Death Star? lol:alliance:
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Mar 29 2005 09:49pm

tarpman
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You don't know the half of it... when you have a few days, go and read this thread from the beginning :P
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Mar 29 2005 01:09pm

Limana D'Kana
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 Limana D'Kana

err.. Why think of a nutsy idea like that!?
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Mar 23 2005 06:17pm

tarpman
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BAM!!
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Feb 27 2005 01:18am

Fire
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 Fire

I love Scotty.

Feb 27 2005 12:47am

Jaiko D'Kana
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Aye, that be true. There be whales here!
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Feb 27 2005 12:34am

Buzz
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 Buzz

magnetic materials obviously exist. Its blatantly clear when Threepio and Artoo are picked up in ROTJ. also if you read the novels 'durasteel' is a very common building material there. Most of the glass in Star Wars is also called 'Transparisteel. Its a transparent derivative of steel, obviously stronger than glass. And don't say "that's not possibly" because: 1. Its a fantasy world and if they can think it up then its quite possible there. And 2. There is a secondary Sci-Fi precedent for transparent metal forms from Star Trek. In Star Trek IV, Scotty shows a factory on earth how to create transparent aluminum for use in transporting the whales back to the future.
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Feb 26 2005 06:05pm

JavaGuy
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I don't find it plausible that iron and steel do not exist in the SW universe. And aluminum is not strong enough to build the stuff they have in SW. I can believe that they also have much stronger synthetic materials, but I don't buy that ferrous (sp?) metals aren't around. They are way too common in the universe. A lot of the stuff on Tatooine, for example, looked like it was made of iron or steel and had the telltale signs of reddish-brown rust, like the sandcrawler. That says iron/steel to me.

So yeah, that's a pretty good point about the blade drawing every metal thing to it. The magnetic containment field would have to be monstrously strong too.


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