Warning. Beware. Danger!

[Squeaksmyalias]

That one is nice! What color did you get?

[ApolloSZ]

I got the RGB version of this saber

Oi, sis. *Points*


The RGB has three buttons, one for each colour, and they can all be turned on/off separately to get different colours.

[Andara Bledin]

I think for the ones your hoping for, the only option would be lasers. The beam would stay focused enough to keep the shape (regular light would scatter and fan too easily) the only problem would be getting the beam to stop/go invisible at a certain length.

Which means that lasers are not, in fact, an option, as they are infinite and would just continue to go.

The obvious answer is a clear outer tube with an end cap of some sort that would block the laser from continuing, somehow.

They are not, in other words, a uniform thickness from one end to the other, as lasers would be.

Hope that makes sense.

What you are talking about is the fact that a light saber is a graduated tube, conical in nature. All you would need to do is have the laser point slightly inward.

Jester, the only hope I see is Hologram technology. Since we are already capable of 3D, it may only be a matter of time before we get true hologram technology (if it doesn't already exist but is too cost prohibitive for now). As I experienced virtual reality more then 13 years ago (but the machine was bulky, etc) who knows what is coming around the bend.

Well, we've got LEDs being built into contact lenses, already.

^-.-^

[Squeaksmyalias]

Oi, sis. *Points*


The RGB has three buttons, one for each colour, and they can all be turned on/off separately to get different colours.

Oh.....shut up I just came in from shoveling! My brain hadn't melted yet....*grumbles*

[shankyknitter]

I want a lightsaber! However my SCA group doesn't let me have anything smaller than 5 and a half feet long. I hurt myself with swords and short swords and one handed weapons, I hurt OTHER people with pole arms.

[Squeaksmyalias]

I want a lightsaber! However my SCA group doesn't let me have anything smaller than 5 and a half feet long. I hurt myself with swords and short swords and one handed weapons, I hurt OTHER people with pole arms.

But these hurt less and if anything measure and get a double bladed one so it's as close to five and a half feet as possible.

[shankyknitter]

hmmmm... you bring up a good point. I could do all kinds of shit with a double bladed saber. Hell I already whip my pole arm around like I think there's a blade on the other end. (Drives my marshals crazy)

[Squeaksmyalias]

hmmmm... you bring up a good point.

I do my best to help/cause trouble.

[ApolloSZ]

Three sessions training quater staff, and the steel weapons group pointed even newer people at me and Al and said "Wanna learn quater staff? ask them"
Twirling is a bad habit for me too.

After seeing all the replies and people getting wanting sabers, I think I created something really dangerous...


I'm so proud.

[Jester]

The obvious answer is a clear outer tube with an end cap of some sort that would block the laser from continuing, somehow.

Ah, but you see the point of our discussion was the idea of a light saber WITHOUT tubing, one that did, at least in appearance if not in function, what the Star Wars sabers do. I.e., form a saber of light without any physical matter.

What you are talking about is the fact that a light saber is a graduated tube, conical in nature. All you would need to do is have the laser point slightly inward.

Not quite. The light sabers I have seen (filmwise) bow in the middle, but are tapered at both the hilt and terminating end. Sort of like an extremely flattened football, if you get my meaning. They DON'T look like a cone tapering out from the hilt. To create a holographic version of this, the light would have to somehow bend further out towards the middle of the saber, and then bend back in at the end. And therein lies the rub: by definition, lasers don't bend.

[Squeaksmyalias]

After seeing all the replies and people getting wanting sabers, I think I created something really dangerous...


I'm so proud.

Me too!

[zombiequeen]

So, Right here and now, is the start of the Lightsaber club of CS
Hubby is still calling dibs on the silver one, but he might get me the RGB
After we get our own place and then we will be the evil reverse-trick-or-treaters every halloween, walking around the trailer park handing out candy.

[Squeaksmyalias]

Yay we are a club!
Look what I found!
Star wars bears!
I want a clone captain rex bear to go with my Piper cub bear!
Btw am I the only one who was sad about the clones having to follow Order 66? I was sad..I'm a big baby but they seemed so nice...*sigh*