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Post by Darthchrist111 on Aug 17, 2006 10:23:21 GMT -5
lightsaber would be the ultamite weapon but can it stop the bullets that are shot out today?
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Post by LockHeed on Aug 18, 2006 14:29:25 GMT -5
It's not that difficult to create a laser. It is just concentrated light. If you want to be Fancy put a colored lens in front of it ,lol. Lasers are very real, right now there are lasers that can burn wood , sure it takes a while but, it's here.
Lightsabers like i stated in my very first post: There is no way to bend light in a manner that would create a "Saber" blade effect. The energy needed to maintain it would , it would have to be plugged to a wall. No battery in the world could maintain it for long. Not yet anyway. .I'm sure someone is looking for a way to concentrate energy into a compact size. Although if I may breach Universes and galaxies here. Transformers tried to do the same and look how huge "Energon Cubes" were and I am pretty sure if you stood next to one it would give you some type of radiational effect.
Lasers are already here, it's how to use them and manipulate the photons that's the problem, not just energy.
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Post by Xanatos on Aug 22, 2006 23:03:17 GMT -5
Two biggest problems in making real lightsaber are: 1)How do you plase such a POWERFUL laser in such small hilt? 2)How do you make laser ray to be short, not endless?
I don't know how to solve these two questions.
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Post by Commanderbly47 on Aug 26, 2006 10:18:25 GMT -5
One would have to develop a pulse laser that would have a power source small enough. Yes, lasers are the real deal. Sabers on the other hand couldn't be light at all, but some focused form of plasma. IMHO of course. Yeah I heard about some guy who actually does make plasma sabers.The only thing was that is was encased is some type of really strong plastic.It looked cool though, but he was charging 500 bucks for it. Apart from that, even if we did have the technology to make lightsabers, we wouldn't be ready for it and lightsabers would probably be used for the military anyways.So lightsabers..not likely.Now Starfighters....it could happen.
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Post by Chewbacca on Aug 26, 2006 12:36:46 GMT -5
Toy 'Plasma' sabers are indeed already a reality. They look great but couldn't cut butter, and are even more fragile than LED strip sabers. As for 'real' sabers... I am no physicist, but as I understand it, a 'Star Wars' style blaster is not likely to be a laser weapon, but a plasma weapon. Same goes for a lightsaber. Plasma is superheated gas that actually appears to defy the laws of locality, and acts almost as though it were alive. Apparently, it is possible to create a 'beam' of plasma, contained magnetically, but both ends have to be 'capped', and the energy source required is the size of an average house. The first big problem with making a lightsaber by this method would be making the beam stop at about 4 feet. You can contain the plasma in a cylindrical magnetic field, but the plasma would 'leak' out of the end, burning everything it came into contact with. Even if you could get over that problem, the radiation would burn everything around it anyway, so Luke would need an asbestos, lead lined suit to wield it even for a very short time. Then you would need a nuclear reactor the size of a walnut to fit into the hilt in order to power it. A blaster would face similar problems, and although you would not have to maintain a 'beam', you would still have to find a way of 'launching' the plasma from the barrel (again, perhaps magnetically). Sorry to be a killjoy, guys, after all, I would love to play with a real lightsaber as much as anyone, but with current technological understanding, at least, it is just not possible. On second thoughts, judging by the amount of times I have whacked myself in the leg with my FX sabers, maybe I will be better off in a world where they don't exist. At least if they ever do exist, maybe I will be better off if I am not allowed to play with one...
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Post by Darth Nihilus on Aug 27, 2006 14:03:51 GMT -5
In my opinion, they are not possible. In order to make a lightsaber, the light must stop at a certain point or it would keep going on and on, making it like a flashlight. Even if someone figured out how to make a lightsaber type weapon, it would not be like Star Wars in the fact that if you tried to fight saber to saber with them the light would just pass through one another.
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Post by Lord Vader on Aug 27, 2006 14:11:39 GMT -5
i agree. with blindside15
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Post by Xanatos on Aug 30, 2006 6:21:40 GMT -5
Actually I would better play with a hologram lightsaber(you know, what I mean), than with real lightsaber, because you can cut you legs and arms off by accident. It's really dangerous kids. We are not Jedi!
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Post by Sithlord1971 on Aug 30, 2006 16:38:40 GMT -5
i agree it would have to be some form of plasma instead of laser but hey who know where technology would end up 100 years from now. i mean look at the changes in tech in just the last 100 years
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Post by Jedi Knight Daniel on Aug 31, 2006 23:26:02 GMT -5
Ok, lets say we accomplished building a functional saber (from lasers, plasma, whatever) You must understand it would be completely silent. Prehaps our good friends at MR would allow the use of their sound boards.
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Post by Darksidelaw on Sept 18, 2006 0:00:41 GMT -5
I am beyond technically challenged, but, I'm sure years ago, the lasers they are using for surgery were far outand no one believed they'd ever see it. Those lasers don't go on forever, to my knowledge, or else they'd cut right through the patient. THey can be manipulated to varying strengths, I'd imagine...which would then place light sabers or something of the like within reach, possibly in the near future. Science and technology is increasing by leaps and bounds daily...it's not too much of a dream to think weaponry will keep up. As for being available to the public...in America!? I'd imagine the liability would be wayyyyyy too great...that's a law suit and headline waiting to happen... Young padawan dies at hand of own lightsaber...
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Post by Garyn Fett™ on Sept 29, 2006 18:21:55 GMT -5
Honestly, it would be impossible to power a lightsaber at present given our technology. I read a "how to" on lightsabers by a physicist, and the only problem was energy. On the subject of "laser weapons", I would have to say no. Satellites with lasers? Big Yes...in fact they already exist. Given the physics of lasers, it would be impossible to create a hand held device that shoots "laser beams" that would dissipate after a certain distance. If you missed, your shot would travel on forever until it hit something. Remember, a laser is essentially a highly concentrated beam of light. So if you missed your target, you could hit something else in it's path, or it would go into space. Also, it wouldn't be like your standard Star Wars blasters. No getting shot and leaving a burn mark on your chest. A laser would most likely burn a hole through your entire body. Those are just my thoughts...and...this is my first post! i have a few things to well, slightly correct in here. you are correct about powering the saber...that is well nigh impossible with current tech unless you had a backpack battery or something of the like. even then, it would run out incredibly quickly. about the laser weapons, such as blasters, it is possible. what powered them was basically excitable gas. power was routed through this, then focused through a lens. this produced a laser beam, not unlike those seen currently. the difference was, the laser had such a high concentration of energy that it would almost instantaneously vaporize the liquid within a person, expending its energy, and leaving a burn mark. about it going on forever, you are correct. but it loses enough of its cohesion after a while to not be lethal, or to not do anything. lightsabers are created with a flux field, drawing the energy back into them, a loop. so it is possible, though unprobable.
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Post by Krex Tonobie on Oct 29, 2006 23:12:22 GMT -5
I would love t osee a real lightsaber and i do think its possible to make one but i dont think it would ever happen in my life time
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Post by General Phi on Nov 10, 2006 8:26:15 GMT -5
umm..any one watched " the science of star wars" on discovery channel? theres was an episode about star wars-tech weapons..it did mention that the US government had a working rifle which emits a green laser. it does not kill its target, just disorientate and blinds them temporarily. its still under going research though. I'll take it that the light saber is entirely possible. its a matter of time before someone make a working light saber. wouldn't mind owning one though
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Post by Derek Skirata on Nov 10, 2006 10:09:26 GMT -5
umm..any one watched " the science of star wars" on discovery channel? theres was an episode about star wars-tech weapons..it did mention that the US government had a working rifle which emits a green laser. it does not kill its target, just disorientate and blinds them temporarily. its still under going research though. I'll take it that the light saber is entirely possible. its a matter of time before someone make a working light saber. wouldn't mind owning one though Too bad there isn't a video on Youtube about it. I'd like to see it.
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