# Sci-Fi weapons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-weapons/356428>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 11, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-weapons/356428 "2006-05-11T21:47:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-weapons/356428/41 "2006-05-15T16:30:51Z")

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> [@Reply](#):
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> Also, in regards to lasers, are there currently portable units powerful enough to blind people? If human eyes are sensitive enough, maybe the power requirement wouldn’t be so great?

I’m almost positive that there are international treaties that ban weapons that seek to blind their victim.

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-weapons/356428/42 "2006-05-15T17:57:43Z")

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> [@Sleel](#):
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> Sorry for the double post, but after looking for a while, I finally found a site that I saw long ago that had a metric tonne of information and theories about lightsabers, [Robert Brown’s](http://web.archive.org/web/20000815220747/www.synicon.com.au/sw/ls/sabres.htm) now defunct web page.

**Sleel** , Thank you! I’ve been searching for that page for over an hour (my search skills really suck). you da’ man.

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