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↓ TranscriptPanel 1:
Bink (to PooPal): Hey PP. Maybe you can help me. I'm trying to construct a lightsaber. Not some stupid glowing PVC toy. A Real, working lightsaber.
Panel 2:
PP: I'm afraid that the scientific obstacles are currently insurmountable.
Bink: What obstacles??
Panel 3:
PP: For one thing, real laser beams go on forever.
A lightsaber appears in Bink's hand. The beam goes on forever.
Panel 4: PP: I suppose you could build a mirror to make it shorter...
Now there's a mirror attached to the lightsaber.
Panel 5: PP: Then there's the issue of overheating and power.
The lightsaber in Bink's hand now has a flame at the base.
Panel 6:
PP: You'd have to carry around a generator and install a cooling system.
Generator and cooling system. Installed.
Panel 7:
PP: Maybe it CAN be done!
Bink looks annoyed.
Panel 8: Bink walks away. The lightsaber disappears.
PP: Where are you going?
Bink: To get some PVC.
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PP = Party Pooper or what ?
You obviously came in late to the strip: PP = PooPal, a robotic cat litterbox.
I’m still not convinced. Granted they probably wouldn’t be “light”-sabers, I feel confident that, in the infinite glories of science, there exists another form of energy other than light which can achieve most of the necessary prerequisites of a lightsaber. Perhaps in the distant future… or past… and far, far away…
Or… you could just give Bink a laser pointer and say “there ya go”. You KNOW how cats love playing with your laser pointer, right?
You can get around the infinite length thing (and the lasers would pass through each other rather than block) if the lightsaber is thought of as plasma in a containment field. However this still leaves the heat and power issues.
Dangit. I was going to say this. Lasers wouldnt work. Using highly ionized gas + magnetic bottle would give the correct shape. But like Chex said, heat and power supply are still a ways off
For now that is the case. I recall people saying that 1GHz CPUs would run so hot that they could not be cooled fast enough. I think before multi core CPUs, we got to 4GHz on a single core. All we need is time & people to seriously work on the issue.
Lightsabers have never been lasers. The blade is plasma held in place by a containment field. Yeah, you still have the problems of power and cooling for a real-world application. See http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber
I’m glad someone else pointed this out.
I thought it was common knowledge that they were plasma not lasers.
Early Star Wars books said they were “self-reflecting lasers”, however that’s supposed to work. It’s only the more recent and updated books that correct that by making them contained plasma weapons.
Of course, the thing with lightsabers being plasma generators that bind the plasma using some form of field is: if you’ve got the tech to make portable and powerful plasma generators and can direct them with fields, why make a sword? Why not create a more powerful and unstoppable hand-held weapon?
“why make a sword? Why not create a more powerful and unstoppable hand-held weapon?”
They do their called blasters. Blasters are plasma based too
I’m too young to know the earlier books I guess. I figured that Plasma had always been the formal text behind it.
Like using the light saber power source in, say, blasters and the like? yeah, the Star Wars tech does kinda fall apart at times.
Refracting the beam to a point where the rest does little/no damage, the combined amount becoming powerful (like a prism kind of) is one thing to shorten the beam.
next bit for the power and cooling, input.
I don’t think that the plasma-in-a-containment-field is any easier to build right now than the laser thing, guys… regardless of power and cooling.
Yea both r hard and a ways off, but at least he all ready have high powered lasers
i think Bink’s face in panel 3 is my favorite part