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Designing a Light Sabre
Looking to design a light sabre the same as those found in Star Wars? Dr. Michio Kaku reveals how we could one day build a light sabre using products found on Earth.
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Now, THIS is something I'd croud fund without skipping a heartbeat.
Even if it doesn't have any practical purpose (what sword does in today's world ?). The awesomeness factor alone would sufice.
It might have a few practical purposes, truthfully. Something hand-held that could cut pretty much any manufactured thing we made regardless of size? Someone would find a use :P
The issue I see is power and heat. Sure, even this nanobattery tech comes around, there's no way it could power something like this for more than a few minutes at a time. Plus, once you turned it off... these ceramics that have been hotter than the sun are now collapsed back inside the handle you're holding, roasting it and all it's components :P
Still... the most achievable design I've seen so far