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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."
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A nanotech style light saber would be the best way to go. Nanites could burn through their target and work on a whitelist principle: a friend's DNA would be ignored.
Quite literally you could ram your nanotech light saber through a hostage taker and the nanites would decline to harm the whitelisted hostage.
I can't believe no one else thought of this. PATENT!!!!!! OMFG I am teh pwnz0r take that George Lucas!!!!!!
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Light sabers work at the subatomic level, disintegrating matter. However, heat is generated within resistant materials, giving the impression that the sabers themselves are actually hot. Don't the slashdot guys know this?
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. ;)
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OK, since today the weirdest stuff happens out here, can I get this comment modded up? Looks like there just has to ask. Thanks alot.
You just got troll'd!
Very, very cold.
As the anti-protons move at uniform speed and the temperature is defined by the relative speed of particles wrt the flow.
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Dunno about you, but I've never seen "steel" on my periodic table. Maybe I have the unpatched version...
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
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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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."
"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...)