Zap! Krack! Fizzle...

Tiny Wolf is kyooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'One of the symptoms of mercury poisoning is mania' ......THIS EXPLAINS A LOT!!!!

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it.

i honestly had the "fluorescent tube light saber" idea back then too, but had the sense not to try it

OhmWrecker looks unimpressed. and neither does the teacher.

If only the Jedi were more specific on how those things were made?

They're made by using the Force. I thought it was well understood. LOL.

So the metal hilts were made by using the force? Interesting.

according to the lore, everything but what makes the lightsaber actually, well work is mundane tech to them in that universe.
There is a crystal though in each lightsaber, one that is em/force sensitive, part of the jedi or sith training is to use the force to shape and 'tune' the crystal so that the device makes a blade, instead of a bomb.
Which ironically is what no one ever tries to exploit.

Why of course. The Force is all powerful and can make a person who knows how to control it anything that person needs.

So the Force can do anything excuse.

Yup. LOL.

Usually right beside the old "A wizard did it" excuse.

owo

little wolf is cute >w<

Star Wars was after HS for me, but I did impress a couple classes and instructors by lighting one up with a small circuit and a 9 volt battery (would last a little less than two hours - by which time the battery was almost too hot to touch!)

I have absolutely no idea as to why they'd do that, Wolf. It isn't like mercury vapor is dangerous or anything.

Not so fun fact.
My brother an I are just old enough that we just old enough to catch the toy craze of return of the jedi. So when we got those 80's style collapsing tube lightsabers, we used them as they were intended to be used.
We staged lightsaber battles, our dad though, he didn't like that. He took them from us, and made us watch as he broke them over his knee and threw them away for playing with them in that way.
So i kinda sympathize with wolf here.

I think the real question here is how has Wolf made any friends with antics like this.

*Ahem* They're now called SDS sheets!

Explains where it all started with him!

Think the other problem there is the tiny little glass shards on the floor too with them being barefooted...

XD well at least Wolf has been consistent :D

Oh yeah, this wuff has had a couple run-ins with those bulbs back in his active duty days. All involved "shenanigans", but sad to say, none of those were light-saber related. *grin*

One was pressurizing a plastic canister used to ship fresh film strips (10 INCH WIDE film - these were pretty large!). Put enough air through a little hole in the bottom, and the lid pops off. Makes a LOVELY *BANG!!*. *grin*

Makes even more noise when the lid sails up into the overhead fluorescent light sets. Only that sounds more like "BANG! CRASH SMASH tinckel tinckel tinckel "Oh Sh$$t !" "
Ooops!

The other time was playing target practice with a home-made high-powered "blow gun" comprised of a 4ft section of boiler sight glass, high pressure air compressor, and finishing nails fletched with some 000 gauge wire insulation. We could drive those darts half way through a 2X4.

Found out that if you accidentally trigger it while carrying it to the "gun rest", you can also put a finishing nail clean through an overhead florescent tube without shattering the whole tube! It was funny watching the air rush in and all the white coating swirl down to the ends of the tube in the "slip stream", leaving the center clear. Interesting lesson in physics and lamp tubes.

It was a bit more difficult to explain that failure mode to the boss later. *snickers*

That's a cute bunny <3

guys it's a really long version of a plasma torch... I remember the first one I had it was a golf club tube on the end of a red flashlight... the later ones had a gel filter on the flashlight... and I still have it...