Edge weapons replace guns. Impossible?

I am a firm beleiver that history will repeat itself and we will all go back to living off the land and farming crops the way our ancestors did. That is when knives will prevail. Survival of the fittest, i.e. us (knife people) will rule the world!

The rantings of a 15 year old. :rolleyes:
 
Keep on suggesting books and movies, I've always thoguht about this stuff on my own and wondered what kind of stuff was out there to read. :D I guess I can now understand the trekkies and others
 
SilverFoxKnows said:
penetrates the shield? ;)

Frank
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I was just thinking this very thing. But I can't remember where its from?

edit: just remembered...Dune...Good stuff. :)

Mark
 
As much as I like swords it isn't going to happen. That genie isn't going back in that bottle...
 
A friend of mine's father (at about age 90) said he was born 100 years too late and he wished he could go back a hundred years prior to his birth. The only things from modern times he thought worth keeping were interstate highways and hair spray.
 
Chemical pulse lasers, microwave guns, and proton guns (blasters). These are the weapons of the future. Lets see the bad guys pull off a "Jihad" while their bodys' are being incinerated. "Hey Bob, You smell that? Smells like someone's cookin' pork." :D
 
Wunderbar said:
Chemical pulse lasers, microwave guns, and proton guns (blasters). These are the weapons of the future. Lets see the bad guys pull off a "Jihad" while their bodys' are being incinerated. "Hey Bob, You smell that? Smells like someone's cookin' pork." :D
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"Smell that, smells like somebody died." Johnny Ringo ;)
 
Minjin said:
I was just thinking this very thing. But I can't remember where its from?

edit: just remembered...Dune...Good stuff. :)

Mark
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Stargate SG1 featured this Idea in one particular episode
 
"Not as clumsy or random as a blaster...a more elegant weapon from a more civilized age."
 
Can someone, anyone, answer me this about the Starwars Lightsaber (and keep in mind that I've only see the first movie (sorry, but Movies are expensive (though I did see The Hitchhiker's Guide last weekend, but it was worth it)) (actually, I'm part of a government program: there was to be at least twelve Americans who have never seen each movie to form a non-bias jury in case there's ever a case involving that movie, and I'm one of the twelve for the rest of the Starwars movies. It's a tough sacrifice, but I do it for my country)): This thing is supposed to be made of light, right? Therefore, it is virtually massless, right? So why do they always seem to take a two-handed grip?
 
Gollnick said:
Can someone, anyone, answer me this about the Starwars Lightsaber (and keep in mind that I've only see the first movie (sorry, but Movies are expensive (though I did see The Hitchhiker's Guide last weekend, but it was worth it)) (actually, I'm part of a government program: there was to be at least twelve Americans who have never seen each movie to form a non-bias jury in case there's ever a case involving that movie, and I'm one of the twelve for the rest of the Starwars movies. It's a tough sacrifice, but I do it for my country)): This thing is supposed to be made of light, right? Therefore, it is virtually massless, right? So why do they always seem to take a two-handed grip?
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Preface: I'm NOT a Star Wars fan

Well, a rod of light wouldn't be a very effective weapon, IMHO. So, I would say that the only way it could DO anything would be if it were highly concentrated. If you concentrate enough photons such that they touch head to toe (physics people, please don't kill me), I'd imagine it would have some substantial mass? The question is, how would a light (photon) saber compare to an electron saber? ;)

Mark
 
Gollnick said:
Can someone, anyone, answer me this about the Starwars Lightsaber (and keep in mind that I've only see the first movie (sorry, but Movies are expensive (though I did see The Hitchhiker's Guide last weekend, but it was worth it)) (actually, I'm part of a government program: there was to be at least twelve Americans who have never seen each movie to form a non-bias jury in case there's ever a case involving that movie, and I'm one of the twelve for the rest of the Starwars movies. It's a tough sacrifice, but I do it for my country)): This thing is supposed to be made of light, right? Therefore, it is virtually massless, right? So why do they always seem to take a two-handed grip?
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Maybe that way there is less of a chance of lopping off your other arm by mistake. :D
 
Lightsabers are two handed because George Lucas rips off his small spaceship battles from WW2 dogfighting footage and his sword fights are right out of classic samurai movies.

Therefore lightsabers being two handed has more to do with theatrical kendo than it does with physics. :D
 
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