From: | "Paolo Falco the FoxMaster" <FaLCo@****.iT> |
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Subject: | LASER what??? |
Date: | Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:18:37 +0200 |
shadowdawn -Reply:
> > Last time I looked it was rather tricky making a laser go around in
> > curves with a mechanism that would survive a couple of good solid hits.
>
> Just put the laser generator along the shaft, and have a
> prismatic mirror at the head of the axe, attach a motor to
> spin the mirror to cover the prescribed arc.
So that the axe goes *BZZZRRTTT*, *BZZZRRTTT*? :)
> > Look at the picture. It's got a great big solid thing that looks a heck
> > of a lot like an axe head to me.
>
> The crescent looks more like plexiglass to me. The big lumpy
> thing on the back of the axe head is probably where the laser
> is.
Actually, I have always thought that a laser axe/sword was a pretty
pointless and an un-scientific idea at best. IF you can make a
portable laser of sufficient power to be able to punch through armor
and flesh, then you have the most perfect 100-or-so-metre-long
lightsaber that you have ever imagined. You know, laser light is
pretty coherent, so that it doesn't scatter around as much as normal
light. This means that as soon as you have your "generator", you also
have a theorically infinite length laser beam of HUGE power. In fact,
the axe you were describing, would be something that actually gives
off a fan of laser light that "stops" (ie actually drops in power to
an extent to which it doesn't hurt except for minor burns and retinal
damage) at around, let's say... 1 metre? (to be optimist). You know,
FASA got it really, really, really wrong with having laser light that
stops and suddently goes down to zero potence where and when you
want. You could have lightsabers if you could simply tell EM
radiation of any given frequence to do what YOU want. To solve this
really un-scientific paradox, I have simply ruled that the laser
crescent axe is an axe with an especially fine blade cut and
perfected with a laser scalpel (not that any of my players goes round
with an axe, but, just in case...)
I will have to ask my pals at the CSELT laser labs more info, but
that means waiting until October or so, so for now my lowly
basic Electrodynamics and optics, plus a hint of laser-building
lessons, will have to suffice.
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