Timeline for Could a drone work as the reflector endcap of a laser sword?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 4:18 | comment | added | KerrAvon2055 | Mandatory xkcd: xkcd.com/1433 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 22:46 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 16, 2020 at 21:48 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=69935 by developer User.Id=8554 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 20:41 | answer | added | Nuclear Hoagie | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 20:17 | comment | added | user69935 | @NuclearWang I didn't think of all the energy being absorbed, good idea, that definitely makes it safer and gives more energy to the drone to push back on a stronger laser. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 20:15 | comment | added | user69935 | @JBH Haha, thats a cool idea, could have a light whip or curved light sword also. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 17:47 | comment | added | JBH | Now that I think about it, using this idea for a set of Nunchaku might be cool beyond belief - especially if you could keksi a way to add some elasticity to the light so the other end of the Nunchaku would swing out and around the neck of your foe. Hah! Then you could look philosophical about it, like Bruce Lee, and your opponent would have died with honor. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 16:00 | comment | added | user6760 | Why sword? your laser is going through everything including another "laser sword" but nice thinking! ;D | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 15:57 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 15:54 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | Why bother reflecting the energy, instead of just absorbing it? It's unclear why you'd want to reflect the beam back to the hilt, when you could just have an opaque object at the desired length to stop the beam. As it is now, the hilt must be designed to both emit and absorb the energy beam, but you could easily separate those two and never have to point a potentially dangerous beam at yourself.. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 15:46 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 15:23 | comment | added | JBH | This is a clever idea, but the drone becomes the weakest part of the sword. Destroy the drone - destroy the sword. Any manufacturing that makes the drone impervious begs the question "why not make the whole sword out of that stuff?" Could a drone reflector work? Sure. Does it make logical sense? Sure. Is it practical? Maybe not. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 14:58 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 14:57 | comment | added | user69935 | @Halfthawed the drone is what will give it its sword length by being at the tip to reflect it back and the drone could change its length. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 14:48 | comment | added | Halfthawed | The modern interpretation of a lightsaber is actually a plasma sword bound within a magnetic field. And you're better just using it as a laser gun if you can project a laser beam. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 14:46 | history | asked | user69935 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |