# How Stuff Works: Lightsabre! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131 "2005-05-09T23:22:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/21 "2005-05-10T16:56:35Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > It would save me the 30 seconds it would take to get a new cup. It would also get you to the front of the line to get a fresh cup. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/22 "2005-05-10T17:30:44Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > An elegant weapon from a more civilised age, as the man said, shortly before hacking some drunk’s arm off in a bar. [hijack] I watched EpII last night, and I was struck again by my favorite “maybe not an in-joke.” In the club when Obi-Wan and Anakin are looking for the changeling, she comes up behind Obi-Wan, blaster at the ready. Obi-Wan lightsabers that gun right out of her hand. To me, this implies that in EpIV, he takes that guy’s whole arm because he’s out of practice. I always find that so funny, although I can’t explain why. [/hijack] But yeah. Gotta get me one of those. I always have a hard time getting english muffins to separate … _no more!_ Separate _and_ toast at the _same time!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/23 "2005-05-10T17:32:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > It would also get you to the front of the line to get a fresh cup. The coffee guy has one now. Uses it to enforce the queue. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/24 "2005-05-10T17:33:32Z")
Aw, hell. Now that I scroll down on the site, I can see that I wasn’t the first to make the “cut n’ toast” joke. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/25 "2005-05-10T17:35:19Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > You know, my cup of coffee is getting a little cold. I really wish I had a lighsabre to reheat it with. Pah! A _real_ Jedi would just concentrate on moving the molecules in the coffee _really really fast_. So much easier than trying to remember where you left the light saber, then levitating it over to the coffee cup, then positioning it _just right_ so that you don’t accidentally poke out the bottom of the cup … 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/26 "2005-05-10T21:42:17Z")
Lighting a cigarette. OMG. That’s hilarious. That photo is fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/27 "2005-05-10T22:12:33Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > How is it this never occured to me before? Your powers are weak. Anyway, that old guy was full of it. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/28 "2005-05-10T22:56:41Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Always exciting to get in on the ground floor with something like this… Actually, if you point the lightsabre towards the floor, and then slowly move 360 degrees in a full circle, you will definitely get on the ground floor in a hurry, no matter where you started. I have the pen knife version. If anybody needs a mole removed, or a circumcision, or tattoo removal - let me know. And I am still looking for some volunteers to practice my Lasik skills. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/29 "2005-05-10T23:23:58Z")
\Ah do dee-clare! That’d be sum’ punkins fer whittlin’ down ter th’ barbershop, Ah suspect!\ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/30 "2005-05-10T23:30:08Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > \Ah do dee-clare! That’d be sum’ punkins fer whittlin’ down ter th’ barbershop, Ah suspect!\ I know who **I** will start carving o…oh. Never mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/31 "2005-05-10T23:33:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I know who **I** will start carving o…oh. Never mind. > 🙂 HEY! I live in Tennessee, & I have to put up with mugs like that. Exactly like that. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bag_of_mostly_water/32/1029_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/32 "2005-05-10T23:48:19Z")
To ask the obvious question: Can a lightsaber cut a mirror? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/33 "2005-05-11T00:03:44Z")
> [@Euthanasiast](#): > > Do not deal with these people! Their light sabers are assembled in third world worlds by non certified Jedi (those who were banished from the Jedi order). The Kyber Crystals are fakes and none of them are as rigorously tested as the genuine Jedi models. Buyer beware! Oh sure, make people feel bad for trying to ge tthe best deal - those Jedi would do better business if they’d have decent hours and a good selection. This is just the free market, pure and simple, and people know what quality they’re getting for the price they pay. Why do you hate the Empire? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/34 "2005-05-11T00:10:20Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > And I am still looking for some volunteers to practice my Lasik skills. Uh, no thanks, I saw what happened when Luke tried it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/35 "2005-05-11T00:21:45Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > HEY! > > I live in Tennessee, & I have to put up with mugs like that. > Exactly like that. > :smack: Maybe I’ll get [pissed off](http://www.undergroundozarks.com/dogpatch.html) after all… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/36 "2005-05-11T00:29:25Z")
> [@Ex\_Chemist](#): > > To ask the obvious question: Can a lightsaber cut a mirror? If you put a strip of masking tape on it. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/37 "2005-05-11T02:18:42Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > If you put a strip of masking tape on it. Did you mean the mirror or the lightsaber? I mean, I’m down a hand and half a leg here. . . ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/38 "2005-05-11T03:04:42Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] [hijack] I watched EpII last night, and I was struck again by my favorite “maybe not an in-joke.” In the club when Obi-Wan and Anakin are looking for the changeling, she comes up behind Obi-Wan, blaster at the ready. Obi-Wan lightsabers that gun right out of her hand. To me, this implies that in EpIV, he takes that guy’s whole arm because he’s out of practice. I always find that so funny, although I can’t explain why. [/hijack] QUOTE] [hijack scene two] The “hacking off the arm” scene was inserted after the fact to prevent the movie from receiving a “G” rating, on the theory that no one would want to watch it if it had the same rating as “Bambi”. [/scene two] ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/39 "2005-05-11T03:05:57Z")
aw crap. [sub]… mumble, frumble, coding, grumble …[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131/40 "2005-05-11T13:32:18Z")
> [@Ex\_Chemist](#): > > To ask the obvious question: Can a lightsaber cut a mirror? Only if it’s a _vampire_ light saber. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stuff-works-lightsabre/303131.md?page=3)