Can a Death Star weapon actually be built?

[DaveC426913]

If I proposed the Death Star is powered by magic, I'd be deluged with "everybody knows there's no such thing as magic". But I replace "magic" with "infinity stones", now suddenly everything's OK.

I get the irony, but it's not as illogical as all that.

"Infinity stones" are a reference to an acknowledged fiction - the MCU.

"Magic" has no such implicit reference (or too many), and thus it is ambiguous as to whether you mean it as a fictional canon, or if you actually believe it.By rights, instead of being deluged with "everybody knows there's no such thing as magic", thoughtful readers should instead be deluging you with "to which universe's magic do you refer? Vader's? Potter's? Gandalf's? Highlander's? "

 

[Klystron]

[...snip]
Speaking of conventional. I reviewed the concept of laser like lasing, what is the maximum megawatts a laser source like death star can give? And what manner of lasing can produce big size laser beams. What lasing source do they use in the navy?

Real world answers would be classified data but the upper limit on laser power output probably occurs when your apparatus melts or vaporizes. The movie "Real Genius" describes a single-shot chemical laser and a rotating mirror on gimbals necessary to direct the laser beam and protect the optics from meltdown.

Spoiler: Climax to Real Genius

The film climaxes in a laser shot from the upper atmosphere at a rotating prism that distributes the heat to cook popcorn instead of blasting a military convoy. The laser destroys itself but not the aircraft that carries it aloft.

 

[Vanadium 50]

thoughtful readers should instead be deluging you with "to which universe's magic do you refer? Vader's? Potter's? Gandalf's? Highlander's? "

Clearly the Evil Stepmother, given that like Star Wars (and Infinity Stones) it's a Disney property.

 

[lucas_]

Real world answers would be classified data but the upper limit on laser power output probably occurs when your apparatus melts or vaporizes. The movie "Real Genius" describes a single-shot chemical laser and a rotating mirror on gimbals necessary to direct the laser beam and protect the optics from meltdown.

Spoiler: Climax to Real Genius

The film climaxes in a laser shot from the upper atmosphere at a rotating prism that distributes the heat to cook popcorn instead of blasting a military convoy. The laser destroys itself but not the aircraft that carries it aloft.

Oh yes. I will watch Real Genius again tonight.

Infinity stones and Death Star rays were so ingrained deep in the subconscious of the public because many legends spoke of them. For example. Edgar Cayce described big crystals with death ray that destroyed the civilization of Atlantis. In fact, the Bible started right after the destruction (the Flood) with Pyramids already existing. It didn't mention how the Pyramids were built for example.

Just for fuller historical and mythical context.

 

[DaveC426913]

Infinity stones and Death Star rays were so ingrained deep in the subconscious of the public because many legends spoke of them.

Er. What?

I guess you're talking about post Star Wars and post-MCU millennials?

For example. Edgar Cayce described big crystals with death ray that destroyed the civilization of Atlantis.

Is this Edgar guy a mythical figure who has become ingrained in our subconscious?

In fact, the Bible started right after the destruction (the Flood) with Pyramids already existing. It didn't mention how the Pyramids were built for example.

So ... the pyramids were built by a Grand Moff Tarkin/Thanos team-up?

 

[jim mcnamara]

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