Solar Death Ray

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:45 am

Some guy used mirrors to create a Solar Death Ray.

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Boys and their toys.

missy · Post by **missy** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:46 am

no ants????
(sorry.....)

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:53 am

missy wrote:no ants????
(sorry.....)

No ants, but there is a chocolate easter bunny...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:55 am

jsluder wrote:
missy wrote:no ants????
(sorry.....)
No ants, but there is a chocolate easter bunny...

Looking at this, I feel no compuntion about pointing out that there may not be ants now.... but just wait a few.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:06 pm

Well, I do hope that my son doesn't hear of this...
...there was enough trouble over the potato gun!

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:07 pm

So, if he gets within 2 feet of you, you're a gonner. Imagine if the Romans had put those on their shields. I think the Atlanteans did.
Tony

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:13 pm

Good thing we deposed Saddam!

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:48 pm

Oh, that thing is for wimps.

Wimpy, wussy, wuss wimps.

What you really want is a giant fresnel lens.

Seriously, if you can't reduce a pile of coins to slag, you're just not trying hard enough.

Caj

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:54 pm

Denny wrote:Well, I do hope that my son doesn't hear of this...
...there was enough trouble over the potato gun!

You had a potato gun too? Ours is still lurking somewhere around here!
My kid would really dig the solar death ray concept as well.

He also poses this question, and I'd love to know if any chiffgeeks can answer satisfactorily:
Why, in a world of Jedi who battle with light sabers, could you not deflect all blows by wearing mirror armor?

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:30 pm

Depends on if you are talking about light-sabers or blasters. Light-sabers wouldn't really be light. They'd be a controlled plasma discharge (and would cut throught the mirrored armour like butter). The blaster might reflect initially, but would cause the armour to superheat so quickly that it would melt, then evaporate, and then you'd start to melt/evaporate soon after.

djm

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:57 pm

djm wrote: Light-sabers wouldn't really be light. They'd be a controlled plasma discharge

Oh, so it's a misnomer then. They should be called Plasma-sabers.

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:44 pm

Depends on if you are talking about light-sabers or blasters. Light-sabers wouldn't really be light. They'd be a controlled plasma discharge (and would cut throught the mirrored armour like butter). The blaster might reflect initially, but would cause the armour to superheat so quickly that it would melt, then evaporate, and then you'd start to melt/evaporate soon after.

I always wondered why the sabers didn't just pass through each other or flare up and destroy both combatants. Oh yeah, The Force. I forgot.
Tony

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:00 am

emmline wrote:They should be called Plasma-sabers.

Since its all fiction, one must consider the effects of the words themselves as far as story-telling goes. "Light sabre" evokes a feeling of brightness, goodness, the correct side in a moral dilemma. "Plasma sabre" sounds technically cool for tech geeks, but carries no subtext, and does not evoke any emotional response. Delivery is 80% of good story-telling, and sci-fi is all about telling tall stories.

djm

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:04 am

emmline wrote:
djm wrote: Light-sabers wouldn't really be light. They'd be a controlled plasma discharge
Oh, so it's a misnomer then. They should be called Plasma-sabers.

Well, of course it's not light...we already have the technology to make a stubby cylinder emit a beam of light.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:04 am

Death ray? Hmmm.....temptimg, but I'm still paying for my Vortex of Doom.