This was a mystery percolating for almost fifty years

[DaveC426913]

: slaps forehead : OF COURSE!!

 

[BWV]

does it also make laser beams travel slower than light?


https://www.wired.com/2012/05/star-wars-blaster-speed/

• A Jedi deflecting blaster bolts with a lightsaber is about the same as a baseball player hitting a pitched ball.
• Playing with Nerf guns and plastic lightsabers in the backyard isn't too terribly different than the movie.

 

[DaveC426913]

does it also make laser beams travel slower than light?

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/star-wars-blaster-speed/

Well this one is way easier to debunk.

They're not lasers; they're blaster bolts.

 

[Flyboy]

does it also make laser beams travel slower than light?


https://www.wired.com/2012/05/star-wars-blaster-speed/

Iirc, they’ve retconned the actual weaponry from lasers to some sort of handwavium plasma. Yes, heavier weapons are called “lasers” or “turbolasers” but it’s a plasma bolt.

 

[BWV]

Iirc, they’ve retconned the actual weaponry from lasers to some sort of handwavium plasma. Yes, heavier weapons are called “lasers” or “turbolasers” but it’s a plasma bolt.

Saw that and according to the piece I posted they travel about as fast as nerf gun darts

 

[Hornbein]

• Playing with Nerf guns and plastic lightsabers in the backyard isn't too terribly different than the movie.

You can say that again. That may have been the basis for that series' broad appeal. Lucas deliberately adopted a B movie style. Viewers like it : it's fun.

 

[diogenesNY]

Now if a Jedi could deflect an inside slider or a knuckle-ball, I would be genuinely impressed.

 

[Hornbein]

Now if a Jedi could deflect an inside slider or a knuckle-ball, I would be genuinely impressed.

Use The Force, Luke.

 

[Office_Shredder]

c=39 km/h, laser speed problem solved.

 

[DaveC426913]

c=39 km/h, laser speed problem solved.

But now you have to explain why Luke's busted-ass landspeeder doesn't have a hyper-drive.

 

[Office_Shredder]

But now you have to explain why Luke's busted-ass landspeeder doesn't have a hyper-drive.

Hyperdrives are for going fast, he was just going a couple of cs.

 

[Chicken Squirr-El]

As soon as I realized that Star Wars is fantasy and not science fiction, all of these issues went away and it became even more enjoyable.

 

[diogenesNY]

As soon as I realized that Star Wars is fantasy and not science fiction, all of these issues went away and it became even more enjoyable.

Many years later, when I watched Kursawa's _Hidden Fortress_, a whole lot of things began to make a bit more sense. Also, the trench run is nearly shot for shot from the climactic sequence of _633 Squadron_.