Is How Stuff Works a Reliable Source? Lightsabers for Smoking and Toasting?

[JamesU]

I can't be sure that how stuff works is such a reliable website after this:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm

Lightsabers to light cigarettes, slice toast, serve cake? It it's hot enough to light a cigarrete, won't it burn your food itemsTrim hedges? your hedges would be dead.

 

[Mk]

Howstuffworks is a realiable site with correct information. But that article is a joke. It is supposed to be funny.

 

[Mk]

Besides, lightsabers aren't real! and you can see the power of Photoshop CS2 in that article. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html

 

[FredGarvin]

I have seen mistakes in How Stuff Works. Most notably (even after I sent in suggestions that they change it) the proper operating prionciples behind tandem rotor helicopters.

I saw the lightsaber bit too. It was a joke. I got a chuckle out of it.