flights of fancy

[cellio]

"Existentially speaking, is there such a thing as half a piece of cake?" -- kayre

This evening at dinner the fundamental dynamics of lightsabres came up. Specifically, how does the color encoding work? Is Luke's blue because Luke prefers blue, or because any lightsabre Luke uses will channel Luke-specific force, which is blue? If so, do the admission criteria at Jedi University include "sabre does not glow red" (and if not, why not)? Are there important qualitative difference between blue and green sabres, both of which appear to channel the light side of the force? Surely these are important research topics for someone out there who has, you know, seen all the movies.

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Re: lightsabres

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

Of course, it's silly to argue this when they have even bigger contradictions of known physics, such as FTL travel. :)

And let's not even get into the whole sound of Tie Fighters (and planets!) exploding cunundrum!

Re: lightsabres

[sethg]

The sounds of the explosions are generated by the X-Wing fighter's navigation computer. When the sensor array detects an explosion, the computer generates the appropriate sound in the pilot's headphones, so the pilot can tell where the explosion was without taking his eyes off his targets.