Timeline for Implications of a Lightsaber on the Middle Ages
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 13:19 | comment | added | Jay | @tom "a long time ago" Yes, I was thinking if we were supposing that Terrans will invent something like a light saber someday. And yes, it's quite possible the writers of Star Wars never even considered what the power source was or how long it was supposed to last or anything of the kind. They might well have just said, Hey, here's this way cool weapon. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 8:45 | comment | added | Tom | I'm reasonably sure they just handwaved it. Also, nitpicking, not "hundreds of years from now", Star Wars is set a long time ago in a galaxy far away. ;-) | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 19:07 | comment | added | Jay | @Tom (shrug) There's little point debating what might have been in the heads of script writers that neither of us have ever met. More productive would be to discuss what is physically possible. But even there we're rather stuck: How much power does a light saber use? And what will battery technology be like hundreds of years from now? Are there inherent limits? Even if there are, who says they use batteries per se, and not, say, fuel cells or a small fusion generator or who knows what? | |
| Oct 10, 2018 at 18:08 | comment | added | Tom | @Jay - I have seen at least one such movie. And people running out of ammo is a regular plot point in movies. You'd think in 8+ movies, they'd have come up with the idea at least once if it were a thing. | |
| Oct 10, 2018 at 15:31 | comment | added | Jay | @tom Wellll.... I've seen plenty of cop shows where there was never a scene where the police car stopped at a gas station. I don't conclude from that that police cars don't need gas. Just that they don't clutter up the movie with boring scenes of people doing mundane tasks. | |
| Oct 10, 2018 at 13:32 | comment | added | Tom | I've never seen someone in any of the Star Wars movies to change the battery or go to a lightsaber charging station, so I guess we can assume the batteries last - for all practical purposes - forever. | |
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| Apr 7, 2016 at 6:21 | history | edited | Jay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2016 at 15:54 | history | answered | Jay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |