You will see why after this histogram for just the space shots except for the Death Star shot. The blaster shots from spacecraft are just in a whole different speed range than the ground-based shots. There is one way to show them together -- it is sort of a cheat. If I take the natural log of the speeds, you can see all the velocities in one histogram.
The red circle shows the data from the Death Star Shot. Yes, there is some overlap in speeds for the space and ground shots. Well, there are a couple of far-away ground shots and a couple of close-up space shots like when they show R2 in the X-wing fighter with shots whizzing past. But it still seems clear that these ground and space shots are different.
One other quick point: Why are there green blaster bolts in space, but for handheld weapons, they all fire red blaster bolts? I am not sure if this shoots "blaster fire" or not, but I analyzed it anyway. If the Death Star has a diameter of km, then I can get a rough estimate for the speed of these things coming out as it destroys Alderaan which is a peaceful planet without weapons.
Here is a plot of the stuff before it combines into one beam. The units here are in kilometers. Once the beams combine, I get a speed of 9. You have no idea what I am talking about here? Here is a shot:. Here is the odd part: In the next shot, the beam is shown to travel toward Alderaan a peaceful planet.
It takes about 0. If the speed of the shot is constant, this would make Alderaan a peaceful planet only km away from the Death Star. I'm not sure how big Alderaan a peaceful planet is, but the space station is about km away from the surface of the Earth Don't worry, I am not completely delusional.
I know that Star Wars is just a movie. I know that Han's blaster doesn't really shoot anything except maybe blanks. Human beings have to actually draw these blaster bolts on the screen. Humans tend to draw things consistently on the frame independent of the setting. I should have done this the first time I went through these scenes, but let me make a plot of blaster speeds according to their angular speed on the screen.
I will just assume the width of the video is 1 unit. Here is what I get. So, the artists in Star Wars are just humans making human mistakes. Yes, but is there any way to fix this? First, let me comment on the ground base's blaster shots. The average for these things is just However, its status as of remains classified. The temperatures achieved in such devices so far are up to a thousand times hotter than the surface of the sun.
With enough plasma in each bolt these would cause huge amounts of damage, so the blaster as presented in the Star Wars films looks to be quite feasible indeed. But how would these real life blaster weapons fare against the other iconic Star Wars weapon, the lightsaber?
A blaster bolt is essentially equivalent to a lightsaber blade, just without the hilt. This is the case when two lightsabers collide, causing explosive destruction of both the weapons and the people holding them. However, with a blaster you are far away from that explosion — leaving you totally unscathed. How a real lightsaber would fare in a Star Wars-style lightning attack.
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Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Though highly destructive, blaster bolts could be deflected or absorbed through various means. Magnetically sealed materials also caused blaster bolts to ricochet off of them.
Lightsaber blades similarly deflected blaster bolts, leading Jedi and Sith alike to often send blaster bolts back at their attackers. The most effective blasters had a variety of power settings. Lower power blaster bolts are the most commonly seen in the franchise. In almost all cases, a single, low-powered, blaster bolt hitting a droid or humanoid in the head or torso kills them instantly depending on the blaster, this applies even to armored opponents.
Low-powered bolts caused minor wounds when grazing or hitting limbs, but the damage was often easily remedied. When hitting metallic or stone materials, however, they did minimal damage, typically leaving scorch marks or shallow craters.
Higher settings were far more damaging, brutally melting or immolating organic materials. High powered blasters had the same effect on inorganic materials as well. While disguised as Stormtroopers, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker blasted Imperial security cameras, causing small explosions that melted the devices. One of their blaster bolts exploded near an unarmored Imperial officer, killing the assailant.
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