I just found, in researching some of the finer points of detail for the new Advocate cover story on Star Wars, what happens when you really let your Boba Fett mix with your Jabba the Hut. I mean, I too wish for my own personal landspeeder, light saber and Millenium Falcon, but should you really go so far as to catalogue the number of frames required to deploy or retract a light saber across all the Star Wars films?
I’m not quite sure of anything about this, except that I admire the writer’s considerable passion:
A number of people have written to me citing a canonical incident from ”The Phantom Menace” where a sabre blade is seen to ”melt” a metal door.
THIS DOES *NOT* PROVE THE BLADE IS *HOT* … if the action of the blade in destroying the fabric of the metal EXCITES the molecules around the point of destruction, then heat will be INDUCED from this excitement. The door is actually MELTING ITSELF.
This is NOT such a strange notion … after all, INDUCTION COOKTOPS exist that heat metal saucepans without being ”hot” themselves … MICROWAVE OVENS cause heat in food without actually pumping "heat" at them, they simply EXCITE the molecules within the food … if you apply a metal-file to a work-piece of metal, BOTH get hot, but NEITHER was hot to start with!
