Working Lightsaber revealed

[NHawk19]

Well first we had the hoverboard now this:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/16/working-lightsaber-the-most-dangerous-laser-ever-created/

guess the warp drive cant be far off.

 

[Red Mask]

Not convinced.

 

[Mrh7448]

not a lightsaber. It's a laser designed to look like a light saber

 

[TNC9852002]

Gettin' close..

 

[Gamma Ray]

It's an impossible technology. Never going to happen.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I'll let you know how it works. I just ordered one.

 

[katie_girl09]

^Nerd.

 

[Spider-Who?]

It's an impossible technology. Never going to happen.

i remember watching some documentary a year or so ago saying that they can make a "plasma" light saber, but the machinery needed to do so at this current time fills a 3 story building. everything gets smaller over time. so in a hundred years, we might have something that truely does resemble a lightsaber. but a real, true and blue lightsaber? yeah, never.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

^Nerd.

i wonder if it'll undo bra straps. wanna come over for a scientific experiment?

 

[Motown Marvel]

this sounds extremely dangerous. im so glad its for sale.

 

[The Squirrel]

"Hong Kong company Wicked Lasers has manufactured “the most dangerous laser ever created,” a lightsaber with a blue beam that can burn retinas and set skin on fire."

Let's sell it!

 

[The Battousai]

There's a reason lightsabers aren't practically feasible. They come from a movie series that's far closer to a fantasy than any kind of science fiction. In fantasy, there is no reason to come up with ways that things within that world would work in the real world.

 

[bored]

Not really a lightsaber, is it? Isn't that just a really strong laser pointer?

A real light-based "saber" can't work, because you can't just make a beam of light stop abruptly after a foot and a half or so and hold in place.

 

[Mister J]

So, really, it's just a portable laser, grafted onto a base resembling a lightsaber. Eh.

The beam is a thousand times more powerful than sunlight on skin and the manufacturer warns it could cause cancer.

Warning: Extremely dangerous is an understatement to 1W of laser power. At close range, this Class 4 beam will cause immediate and irreversable retinal damage. Use with extreme caution and use only when wearing proper safety goggles with an O.D. of 3+ is required and 4.4+ for longer exposures.

For your convenience, the Arctic comes packaged with free safety glasses.

All this, at a shade under $200. I wonder if the order form includes some sort of liability waiver that the buyer has to sign off on. Give it three weeks until the story of two drunken frat boys, thinking they were on Mustafar and now with severly impaired digits, launch a lawsuit.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Not really a lightsaber, is it? Isn't that just a really strong laser pointer?

A real light-based "saber" can't work, because you can't just make a beam of light stop abruptly after a foot and a half or so and hold in place.

Could if you had a flux capacitor connected to an inertial dampener.

 

[huskerwebhead]

Give it three weeks until the story of two drunken frat boys, thinking they were on Mustafar and now with severly impaired digits, launch a lawsuit.

^^^This...OR....

Some narcissistic, jackass, emo f**kstick just decides to point it into some random crowd for no other reason but "because he can."

 

[bored]

Hmmmm, that gives me an idea: Pass them out at an ICP concert.

 

[Maximum Carnage]

Lol, Husker!

 

[webhead731]

That's a piss stream-sized blade.

 

[Lord Valumart]

So... Why sell this thing if it can set skin on fire? Surely this isn't the kind of thing you have at home to heat up a cold sausage roll on a sunday afternoon. This is clear some weapons grade lazer. Low level weapons grade I'll admit but still...

 

[The Geek Vault]

sharks with lazers on their heads anyone?

 

[Manic]

Could if you had a flux capacitor connected to an inertial dampener.

You can't just go tossing around random sci-fi terms like that. It doesn't make any sense.

 

[Shemtov]

Could if you had a flux capacitor connected to an inertial dampener.

Aye, but you would have to realign the Matter/Antimatter pods first.

 

[\S/uperman]

A light saber has a solid laser that only extends a few feet.

This is not a solid laser, and I assume the laser would keep extending until it comes into contact with an object.

 

[Manic]

I think the only conceivable way to create anything resembling a lightsabre would be to make something similar to Travis Touchdown's beam katana.