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How Hot Would a Light Saber Really Be?
Datagod asks: "Has anyone ever calculated the temperature you would need to be able to slice through steel like it was thin air? How hot would a light saber really need to be? Also, I am assuming that at least some of the metal would be vaporized and the expanding gas would fling bits of molten metal at the saber wielder. Wouldn't your average Jedi be horribly scarred from all this."
april fools! it's first.
-gjr
Buy one and point it at a thermometer.
http://wickedlasers.com/
O.K. so these aren't really lightsabers.
not as hot as the pink on the site
Not necessarily, Padawan. If a Jedi cuts through a door/bulkhead/vehicle with a light saber s/he could avoid getting splashed with melted metal by applying a subtle Force push along with the slicing motion of the saber. To Saber 101 class you should return, youngling. ;)
Quantum mechanics: the dreams that stuff is made of.
More importantly, could a Jedi make a light sabre so hot that he himself could not wield it?
The light saber would need to be 6241 F to cut through metal. At that temperature, the metal would be separated into sub-atomic particles called 'fooltrons'. As I'm sure you are aware, fooltrons are far to small to cause damage to the human body.
If only I had mod points. I wasted them all just before the pink crap showed up.
I submitted this as a serious question 24 hours ago (or so). Just my luck, the only time my question gets accepted its april fools, and the whole site is pink! LOL
You know, it's just a sci-fi movie right? These things don't exists, so why are you explaining how they actually work?
MABASPLOOM!
Mace Wendu: I don't want no muthafrakking metal bita coming at my muthafrakking eyes! I will not be some blind-ass ...and this the JEDI adopted OSHA standards.
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Stevie Wonder jedi.
It is a time of great eye protection in the republic.
Eyeprotection worn by leading scientists without the force powers to deflect metal bits from their eyes.
They found the lightsaber:
Was developed from an ancient bread-slicer / toaster.
Contains 1.21 gigawats of power between recharge of it's flux capacitors.
Ranges from 350F to 50000F (battery life may suffer from extended operation, and overheating may occur at high temperatures.
Still makes a tasty grilled cheese sandwich in a pinch.
It was a dark time in the Republic.
Mainly because light sabers are really, really bright at high temperatures.
So bright as to be blinding.
Hence the recall.
*sigh* and so the 100th episode of the Star Wars series aired... in gravity distorting 3-D.
1138 left to go.
Luke warm maybe, but Leia in slave-dress is hot.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
It's not the heat...it's the humidity.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
"Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?"
No, he could always eat the burrito, no matter how hot. He would just suffer while eating it. Horribly. For all our sakes. (And of course, since a Jewish man prepared the burrito, we Christians would hold the Jewish people guilty of this for the rest of time, or at least for a millenium or two...)