Timeline for Superheated bullets and the damage they would deal
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| May 16, 2018 at 11:34 | comment | added | Ruadhan | More likely severe burns and thermal shock, leading to complications from sepsis and a painful death. Cauterising is rarely as clean as fiction makes out or armchair enthusiasts of lightsabers like to believe, and dealing with third-degree burns over a column through your torso is optimistically in the extreme end of what modern medicine is likely to be able to cope with. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | pipe | Wouldn't a heated bullet cauterize the wound, preventing internal bleeding? Maybe that's a little too optimistic. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | Ruadhan | I was questioning why blasters were being discussed right up until I saw the name..Question retracted :P Get outta here sithlord! | |
| May 15, 2018 at 12:39 | comment | added | Darth Vader | You do realize that, if this is true, then it is basically just as effective as a blaster. Because blasters don't use metal bullets at high temperature, and instead use tibanna gas that is in a plasma form to do damage, blasters are more efficient. Waste of metal alloys is what I think of bullets when you can have a good blaster instead. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 11:58 | comment | added | Blade Wraith | @Baka-Mastermind, Even bullets made from Tungsten would struggle to perform this action. the only thing that could do this would probably be Uru, the mythical metal that Thor's Hammer is made from. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 10:35 | history | edited | user26494 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
corrected for non-soft hot metal
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| May 15, 2018 at 9:38 | comment | added | Baka-Mastermind | The question states that we use metal that in this heated state is similar to a normally fired lead, so the efficiency against armor should be about the same. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 9:35 | history | answered | user26494 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |