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@Axel: In order for a lightsaber to work, it would have to be plasma. There is no way to keep light from stopping like a lightsaber does. It would go on indefinitely (ignoring black holes). Also, when two lightsabers met, if they were light/lasers, they would simply pass through each other. As plasma, they would clash the way they do. Also, the blasters would have to shoot plasma, as a laser would be a near-instantaneous, constant stream of light. The blaster bolts move much slower, and are simply little bolts, not huge streams.
Actually, photons seem to be solid objects. So, theoretically, one could make a solid material out of them
Although it wouldn't emit any light since the photons aren't leaving the lightsabre XD
well… not really. Having some characteristics of a particle and being solid are two different things. It would probably not be feasible or useful to attempt to create a bounded “solid” photon beam. By their very definition, photons are both massless and chargeless, so any attempt to create “solidity” in the manner that we typically experience it today would be inherently impossible. Although photons do have momentum (related to their frequency) and are therefore capable of imparting a force on objects that they come in contact with, this force is very small. The intensity of photons necessary for a beam to have substantial “solidity” would be energy prohibitive. And you would have to expend the same amount of energy interfering with every photon to bind it inside the beam (if a technique were even created whereby you could control interference in this manner). Futhermore, when you attempted to use one of these lightsabers against another, rather than resist each other, they would most likely interfere chaotically and unpredictably. Also, the energy of a photon is imparted in the direction of the photon, not tangentally to the sides as would be required here.
Wow both of these guys need to get laid or get out of the house every now and again….i my holy shit
amen
kryptonite can probably be used as a lightsaber crystal. If you looked it up on wookiepedia, lightsaber crystals come a variety of different sources. Considering its effects on Superman it's probably safe to assume it is able to manipulate the Force. Not to mention the total badass factor of a lightsaber made from kryptonite, kryptonite caaaan be used in a lightsaber.
As for the discussions on whether or not a lightsaber uses light or plasma, it uses light. The fact that this is impossible (because light would go on indefinitely, light can't cut through solids, etc.) should be disregarded because it's fiction.
Buuuuuut, now that I think about it, there are no instances of a lightsaber having a kryptonite core and since they don't exist, they can't be counted as Jedi lightsabers, meaning the whole kryptonite argument can't be used (Occam's Razor).
Thats pretty much the point of the light saber the infinite powerful weapon of the Jedi that is explained how to make it, but they never explain exactly why it works the way it does. Most likely some technology they have in that time period to bend or restrict light. Hence the whole crystal for power that goes though a focusing beam in the light saber. But you can imagine what you want. Its not plasma!
I fucking love this tread.
Jedi for the win
Jedi Batman for the Epic WIn!!!!
*thread
What if kryptonite was used as the lightsabers crystal?
So what youre saying is, "I didnt read any other comment before I posted."
omg your all so very sad, so very very sad, step away from the laptop go outside an interact with actual humans!
At least us "nerds" know how grammar is meant to be used.
Matty, you're my hero.
wow REALLY
This is a WIN. Whoever posted this as a fail has just failed, themselves.
The idea that a Jedi could use the Force to cause Superman to be unable to breath or to restrict the flow of his blood fail to take into account the well-established fact that Kryptonian biology is super-powered down to the molecular level when it has absorbed yellow sun radiation. Superman draws his power from solar energy that is stored with his cells. As such, it would be a hurculean task, requiring a Jedi Master on the level of Yoda to stop the flow of his supercharged blood cells, and even then it would require his absolute concentration, similar to the concentration needed to raise a ship into the air for example. This need for concentration would afford Superman a free attack, albeit one he would need to do in say a little under a second. Of course, considering that Superman can move at light speed, and that his heat vision moves at nearly light speed, it would be easy for Superman to get off an attack of some sort that would disrupt the Jedi's concentration and release his blood to flow normally once again.
As to the stopping him from breathing argument, even though the above counter argument would apply just as well, it is irrelevant because currently Superman can go without breath for a period of around two weeks or so. So unless the Jedi can maintain his force grip on Supes windpipe and manage to fend the big guy off for longer than two weeks that method is extremely inneffective.
Both the question and answer are fails. Most comments to the post are also fails. The right answer is: shut up, nerd.
i thought that the lightsaber was controlled in it's length and such by focusing the force?
i obviously don't know much but wouldn't that make sense?
I think the question AND answer are pure epic win to be honest. Without the question there would be no answer.
It should really be clarified which Superman, but let's just straighten some things out here. Superman IS so fast that HE can go back in time (Superman, 1978). Anyone who knows anything about physics can tell you this means he must be able to travel faster than the speed of light. Thus a Jedi would never have the chance to cut Superman with a light saber and the well is poisoned right there. However, if a Jedi did get close enough I have to say that superman's heat vision seems to be in essence plasma or at least as powerful as a plasma light saber, it's the power of the sun harnessed directly into a form of energy. There are instances in the comic books in which superman uses the aforementioned heat vision to shave. Thus the conclusion we come to is that a light saber could cut superman's hair, but only forms of kryptonite can actually penetrate his skin.
''hitting superman with a red ligthsaber is like hitting a normal human with a wet noodel''
best quote of the 09
Wait a second… He asked about a JEDI light saber, but the jedi don't use RED light sabers.
EPIC WIN
These answer and arguements are just amazing but they forgot one factor, han shot first.
Couldn't the jedi just use the force to scramble and or tear apart superman's brains inside his head? If the force resides within all things, it shouldn't be any sort of trouble to use it to manipulate matter in a limited distance in an area as small as the interior of someone's head.
i can't believe i actually read all that
the irony of all this is the fact that the guy who answered using al this logical crap, has no proof whatsoever of what a light saber is really made of.
the bare principle of a light saber is it can cut through ANYTHING period in exception of another light saber.
And just ti further dis that answer, the color of the light saber makes no difference whatsoever its just a color, for a light saber color only emphasises personality and stuff like that, makes no change to the actual blade
Wait… Wouldn't this all depend on the colour of the nearest star?
Only so far as the speed of Superman's loss was concerned. Without his power from a yellow sun, he would be tagliatelli in moments, but under a yellow sun the timeframe is less clear.
Light Sabers disrupt the the subatomic coherence of electrons and neutrons and protons. This is obviously that is like that of a electron particle beam weapon.
A neutral particle beam weapon ionizes hydrogen gas by either stripping an electron off of each hydrogen atom, or by allowing each hydrogen atom to capture an extra electron. When hydrogen gains electrons it forms anions; when hydrogen atoms lose electrons they form cations. A particle beam weapon that accelerates anions uses a traveling wave type particle accelerator. In this kind of ion accelerator, the negative ions are released inside a cylindrical ion acceleration chamber. This chamber has an electrode with an alternating electric charge of up to 1,000,000,000 (109) volts inside it.
These stages happen:-
1. While the charge on the electrode is positive, the ions are attracted to the negative charge on the electrode, and thus bunched around it.
2. The alternating voltage switches the charge to negative on the accelerating electrode.
3. The negative charge electrostatically repels the negative ions and accelerates them to near the velocity of light.
4. The resulting high energy beam of anions passes through a chamber filled with low pressure gas.
5. There, collisions with the gas strip the extra electrons from the anions, and thus make the particle beam neutral.
6. The particle beam proceeds straight to its target, and damages it by running into it, and by disrupting the structure of the target with its kinetic energy.
Furthermore using krypotanite as a means for creating a saber is pointless and the chemical properties of this foreign substance has to be carefully studied. One thing is certain about it's property is that krypotanite is effective has krypotanite in full property.
No need, Just having the handle made out of kryptanite is enough to disrupt the proton hydrogen bonds in Superman. Thus making the saber penetration more feasible.
omg… nerds have hit a new low
why dont you all go hit eachother with your little red lightsabers nd test it out
you will be doing the world a favour
some of the replies here are way bigger fails than the original question or answer. epic thread fails indeed!
dude…but what if super man is already weakend by kryptoknite and then some uberjedi used the uberforce and held them down while some other uberjedi cut him down…yeah…just think about it
o yeah zac
or maby the keebler elves could dilever the kryptonite in a spiked cookie and then the uberjedis one using the uberforce to hold him down and the other to kill the mofo…KEEBLERS FOR THE WIN!!!
I’m not sure if I’m more depressed that I actually read all of the posts, or that I’ve understood all of the particle physics behind the explanations…
Though if we’re going to go with particle physics, all Superman would have to do is measure either the placement or the speed of the photons emitted, thereby nullifying the other variable, and rendering the entire project useless.
it can in Ireland
I proved that guy wrong on Yahoo answers…
seriously, I did it.
i.e. Lightsabers are far *far* hotter than the sun.
There's no way this guy is a virgin.
OK U GUYS!!! Stop arguing about the stuff that doesn't exist…
instead… tell George Lucas to make another sequel… STAR WARS VIII : ASTROPHYSICS FOR DUMMIES… lol….
I could have totally come up with an answer that cool with the help of my friend, marijuana.
but you didn´t
and that what makes it modern art
Dead thread, but I feel the need to make this point–
Regarding the arguments about attacking Superman with the Force. The Yuuzhan Vong novels pretty clearly establish that the Force only permeates the Star Wars galaxy. The Yuuzhan Vong come from another galaxy, and since they're not connected to the Force (no midichlorians, thogh I think the books were written before the midichlorian concept existed) they're completely unaffected by the Force. Thus, unless Krypton was in the Star Wars galaxy, Arguments about whether or not the Force counts as "magic" are moot–Jedi ain't got shit on Superman.
cant believe i read this whole post, watching you fags go on like that has restored my faith in being a bully
I love the number of nerds trying to show off their (lack of) penis size by one upping the original domination by the turbo nerd JimM.
it's quite humorous, actually.
I'm nerdier! NO I'M NERDIER!
How is this in any way a fail?! JimM, you are my hero.