#6, RE: Lightsabers
Posted by Polychrome on Oct-10-01 at 04:18 AM
In response to message #1
>Aside from that, and the fact that I suspect the plasma temperature is >much higher (we've seen the things pierce blast doors >without appreciable difficulty), I have no objections to this as aIndeed. 2000 C is not sufficient to vaporize iron, much less some of the tougher things out there. I suggest upping it to 7500 C, which is hot enough to boil tungsten and let you cut through steel like it was butter. Polychrome
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