The first snag you run into is that battery. “Although real-life battery technology is coming along great,” Gluesenkamp writes, “we are a long way off from creating handheld batteries with capacities like that the ones found in the lightsaber’s diatium power cell.” In Star Wars, Jedi didn’t have to worry about that because “diatium” is a convenient bit of fiction and are attuned to the Force, so, really, they could do anything.
Still, let’s say we did have such a battery. There’s another problem in getting a focused, powerful blade of plasma with an exact length and shape, which is where the concept of a lightsaber gets “really convoluted,” according to Gluesenkamp.
“There are also no crystals that can ‘direct’ a plasma,” Gluesenkamp writes, noting that today we use magnetic fields are used, but are limited as the machinery involved has to enclose the plasma. “In fact, a plasma ‘being directed’ by a crystal lens doesn’t make any physical sense anyway. A plasma is really just an ionized gas — a gas in which the electrons have been stripped from their atomic nuclei.”
Once again, let’s say we could direct a powerful plasma beam. That would require a huge difference in voltage, which means we’d need something along the lines of a powerful laser — or plain ol’ lightning. Given the amount of energy that would be required, it’d be “extremely difficult to control the plasma’s shape” using either approach, according to Gluesenkamp.
“An electrical arc can have wild shifts in direction, and it can hardly be controlled without being surrounded by magnets,” he writes. “A laser will go in a straight line, but of course it doesn’t stop. A laser-based lightsaber would require a block or a couple of mirrors floating in midair, moving in sync with the hilt — which is of course largely impossible.”
Legend Of Zelda Rap- 1986
Holy Morly that was horrible, although I really want a cheeseburger right now, 2 more after jump
Original:
Fresh beats from THE LONELY ISLAND “Boombox (ft. Julian Casablancas)”.
Link to MP3 = Lonely Island – Boombox (feat Julian Casablancas)
(right click save as)
Plus the longest waterslide ever!
“It’s based on a Zotac IONITX-A-U motherboard, and is equipped with a Dual Core 1.6Ghz Intel Atom N330, an NVIDIA GeForce9400M on NVIDIA ION chipset and 2GB of DDR2 RAM. In comparison, the original NES had a 1.66 MHz CPU and 2KB of RAM, a thousand times less powerful than this HTPC.”
So in theory, you could load this thing up with an NES emulator and download all the ROMs you want and you could treat this just like an old NES. But this NES would also be able to surf the web and play videos. Not a bad upgrade! If you want it, it’s up for sale on Etsy now for $475. But hurry! This is a one-of-a-kind object.”
