Bullets and lightsabers (Page 1 of 2)

Well, because of the scene where Qui-gon cuts through the blast door with a lightsaber, I surmize that the bullets would simply disintegrate (or whatever the technical term is) completely on contact. Not much of a contest there really, but the lightsaber couldn't deflect the shots back at anyone so...

When fighting a Jedi your best option is usually a slug thrower simply because unlike blaster bolts they do not richochet. Sure they get melted into slag...or nothing at all. Plus you can have a shield on and slugs'll pass right through it without having to turn it off or bounce back.

Since both lightsabers and blasters are energy weapons and a bullet is a projectile. The lightsaber is able to deflect the energy of the blaster shot but if you were to used a large enough round then not all of the bullet would melt as it passed through the beam of the lightsaber and would cause damage to the person on the other side.

Excactly what I was gunna say, which is why I think Nym was so keen on using his slugthrower most of the time.

ya, or deflect them like Vader does to Han's blaster bolt. I never really liked that part though, because it made it look like it was really unnessicary to use your lightsaber as a tool againt blasters.

yeah, and besides Vader's arms are robotic with that outer covering of armor which is really strong, strong enough to survive in space.

Sence laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and light is faster than a bullet, I would say the laser is faster.

It says on wikipedia that it was only Vader's specially armored gloves that deflected the blaster bolt, and implies that it's not a force ability. I think that makes more sense, as we never see any other force users doing it. (Except for maybe the Witches of Dathomir in The Courtship of Princess Leia?)

...but ever since I've heard Draco go on about how you can't trust wikipedia...

I think the best firearm to use against a Jedi would be a shotgun. It would have to be one crazy Jedi to be able to deflect something like that, or get close enough to slice it without getting blown away.

I can believe blocking a rifle however fast it's going. But stopping each and every slug from a shotgun shell...

Lasers dont look like they arfe going very fast plus you cant see bullets.

True, but then you can't take scientific standards for lasers and apply them to these blaster bolts can you?

Really what I'm trying to say is that you can't use science to explain things in a fictional world. Because The lasers emitted from the space ships would be (in real life) invisible as there is not enough matter to scatter the particles in the vaccuum of space. But that is not true in the movies, so lets just let Fiction be fiction.

Here's how to avoid shotgun shells in one simple direction:

Head for the hills and cover your butt.