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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 year ago by Allero@lemmy.today to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Star Wars universe does have lasers of all scales and power levels.

Yet literally no one uses them well on a personal scale.

The Jedi (and Sith for that matter) imbue it with a power of magical stone, and then...use it as a saber.

To balance this stupidity, stormtroopers, clones and droids all use slow, non-continuous energy blasters. With actual lasers, they could insta-kill any Jedi, but they cannot, because otherwise the movie wouldn't exist.

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

As I understood from the legends material, lightsaber blades are an arch shape. It extends out, bends at the tip, and returns to the handle. That's why they're near infinite, They're 99% efficiency recycling energy and only energy lost is energy imparted is through impact.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Huh.

I do not recall ever reading or hearing about what is now the 'legends' version of the canon... that lightsabers form some kind of self recycling loop, in that manner.

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But anyway, that also makes no sense in our real world physics.

It... still net expends energy to maintain plasma in a contained space.

Said plasma would want to basically explode outward in every direction, and a real world magnetic field would have to be stronger than that (real world) force, and ... also... it would be absurdly thermally hot that any wielder of a lightsaber would basically oven cook themselves within seconds of turning it on.

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As of yet, nuclear fusion in a tokomak style, contained plasma loop... is still a net energy loss, and that is the closest real world equivalent to a 'self cohering plasma bolt' that I can think of...

Barring I guess 'ball lightning', maybe, which is theorerically proposed to maybe be some kind of naturally occuring instance of something similar, but to my knowledge, no one has ever like, made a ball lightning generator to test those theories.

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