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- kiheimac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Invest in prosthetics. How many Star Wars geeks will lose their limbs rein-acting scenes from Episode 3.
- Zorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Diggers... I find your lack of faith disturbing.
- bubba9999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It sounds like a good way to put a magnetically shielded field around your virginity.
- emiles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I brush my teeth with a plasma cutter.
- lswinney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A chainsaw would be cheaper, and use less fuel.
- krazikamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We cut some parts for our robot on a handheld plasma cutter once. Pretty sweet tool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cutter - silvertiger1981, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would just like to introduce myself by saying that I'm starting construction on a fully functional lightsaber. It's something that's taken me six years to research and come up with a design. Anyway, I figured out how to ignite a plasma into an electromagnetic field through hysteresis. It should sever objects like a hot knife thru butter by operating with an AC sinewave frequency of about 1.5 GHz. I hope it works when I'm done! It should make a good story if I fail and fry myself, but it will make history if I succeed.
- timewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/LightSaber/LightSaber.html
- Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Helpseeker
It was a UV light or laser, and if it melted your tooth you wouldn't have been happy about it because it would melted half your face as well. - Vladek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The amount of energy required to power plasma at atmospheric pressure will most definately require a WHOLE LOT MORE than a couple of AA batteries in the handle. I'm not even sure if the wall outlet would provide enough power.
- TheRealDeal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Real lightsabers?! Where do I sign up?
You got my digg! - camtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0not quite there yet. maybe if the current version of a light saber can be compacted :)
http://www.exn.ca/news/images/a/aerospatiale-plasmagum.jpg
that won't fit in my hand. - JoeG254, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It would be kind of useless. If you wanted to use it as defense a gun would be more effective.
- crazzy8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's the old saying? "The laser pointer is mighter than the lightsaber."
- jpesicka2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0my professor got together with 5 other scientists & made their own lightsabers with plasma, the only problem is that you have to plug it in
- Cameleopard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quoting one of the posts at EXN:
"You're forgetting the major thing here, guys. A lightsaber was nothing more than a crude, flawed instrument of science unless it had been completey bathed in the Force. Unless it is created by a Jedi who is perfectly attuned to the Force, the lightsaber will fail whoever wields it." - clumsyninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That wouldn't just simply cut someone, though. Your enemies would be very badly burned, if still alive.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey i was at a dentist out of the country and he used this blue light which was either a laser or a plasma canon type thing to melt my tooth. It was crazy!
- sam3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The pictures sucked on that article.
- vaxguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hahaha, that would be a cool idea, but probably not the smartest, when placed in the hands of Star Wars fans (myself included) =D
"Good against remotes is one thing, good against the living - that's something else..." - thetruth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This idea may be theoretically possible, but it's so far away from implementation as to be fantasy, anyway. You might as well just posit a retractable column of 80 trillion nanobots that radiate energy and say you've invented a lightsaber.
Flunk. - mad1stl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had an idea for a lightsaber design that used a telescopic mirror protrude from the handle. Laser light would be emitted from the handle toward the mirror on the end of the telescope. The mirror would be concaved just enough to reflect the light back into the handle, maybe to be recycled. The telescopic part would have to be insanely tough/thin/part of the recycling as well as the mirror. Any ideas or comments?
- tdkme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just what we need. another reason for dummies to hurt themselves....
- Zhay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These lightsabers would go through each other.
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One thing nobody seems to ever mention when this topic comes up. Even if you could get one to work like in the movies, it would be extremely difficult to use with no weight on the end. Remember, when the actors are swinging them around they have an actual rod sticking out of the handle, so there's weight on "tip" of the sword. Imagine swinging a stick around and then try exactly the same movements with a flashlight.
- sgtkillmore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Diggers... I find your lack of faith disturbing."
indeed - PradaPete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0star wars fans could try it on their genitalia first cause they have no use for it anyway.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For those of you who think the commenters are dumb here, go ahead and read the comments on this story on exn. Rocket scientists they ain't.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Have I been black-listed or something? When I submitted this link, it was simply ignored. Oh well digg++
- Hawk4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wow, the point is not that it is very, very difficult to achieve. It's a really good thing the world isn't totally made up of idiot naysayers.
- ronaldpoi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I want a real lightsaber... =)
- tmcleroy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0cool
- MadChicken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Great article, lousy Digg.
- phrstbrn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I thought lightsabers were solid? Last time I checked, a plasma isn't solid. This is more like a glorified flamethrower than anything.
No digg. - retawd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If you keep it in the original packaging and talk like Yoda you'll get ALL the girls...
- Swampthing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OMG alphgeek... you must be a genius! You are the first person on digg to realize that comments follow stories at the bottom!!!
what a dumbass... - ninjakarl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This article is quite old seeing as I read it many years ago in my sordid quest to find out if lightsabers were actually possible to build...
- BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Bunch of fat ***** Internet nerds sitting in front of your computers eating Doritos...have you nothing better to do?!
- MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So will these lightsabers reflect laser blasts too. I started reading the article but became uninterested after the first few paragraphs.
- Massif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It was cool in the movies...let's just let it be...
- Darknesswalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I dugg it.... nice interesting piece of BS
- XenonofArcticus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://www.amazing1.com/star_wars_light_saber.htm
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0One hell of a light saber that would be, i think it exedes luke skywalkers budget and it would be hell to carry around on your belt. Just buy a gun...gang war style screw star wars style.
- StickWST, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1With this kind of technology, they make effing light sabers?
- Vector713, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"With this kind of technology, they make effing light sabers?"
HAHAHAHA, my sentiments exactly. -
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