Would you be able to see the blaster bolts in Star wars?

[Smythe]

Discussion GO!
EDIT: Made question less retarded.

[Slapzy]

Still retarded.

Possibly, it depends on the energy really. If it's based on heat, then no, but you could see effects from the rays. Similar to DEW's. Even if it were lazer, it would not be seen without a catalyst, such as smoke, or dust particles. The only real way to see it, would be if emitted light reflected on the particles around it. IMO.

[kiddten]

or they could be made of plasma, like the covenent weapons

[Modzy]

or they could be made of plasma, like the covenent weapons

Which would dissipate in the air feet in front of you.

[Smythe]

Covenant plasma is contained which is why it travels so far without disappearing.

[Amy]

Light.


Just look at one of the tags for covenant plasma, it has no mod2, but the mgs2 and light are what gives it it's look.

[Pielogist]

Would you be able to see the blaster bolts in Star wars?

yes. because if not, the audience would be confused. We have things such as directors, to make sure you see the bolts.
;D

[Slapzy]

Except that there's no perfectly logical way to "contain" it, to which it would still be perfectly effective for that particular instance to function as a lethal projectile. What Modzy said is correct.

[Fortune]

well take lightning for instance. Nothing contains it, yet it is visible and it hits shit. So I think instead of being shot, the projectile is being pulled towards the target by magnetism or something else like gravity, which causes it all to focus on one spot thus appearing to us like it is one ball of matter.

[tokage]

Except that there's no perfectly logical way to "contain" it, to which it would still be perfectly effective for that particular instance to function as a lethal projectile. What Modzy said is correct.

Contain plasma? Plasma is super heated gas that reacts to, and can be manipulated by, magnetism.
But Even so, it's a long shot for that kind of thing to ever work.

There's probably little specks of... some kind of reflective material. If this material were very magnetic, firing it along with a... um... Puff? Puff of plasma could light it up and contain it.
Now the question is how the changed the color O_o

EDITORY:

well take lightning for instance. Nothing contains it, yet it is visible and it hits shit. So I think instead of being shot, the projectile is being pulled towards the target by magnetism or something else like gravity, which causes it all to focus on one spot thus appearing to us like it is one ball of matter.

Then the soldiers would stop making magnetically attractive armor O_O

[Fortune]

Then the soldiers would stop making magnetically attractive armor O_O

They did that in x-men when facing magneto.
And i didnt say it HAD to be magnetism. Possibly just different polarities. just thought of this: What if one end of the plasma was say, positively charged and the other side was negative? that might be able to hold it together.

[Scrappy]

Only 1 explanation to this. Clone Trooper shoot LED lights at the enemy, which is coated with nitroglycerin or any other highly reactive explosive...

Clone troopers have no brain what-so-ever.

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[Moxus]

Except that there's no perfectly logical way to "contain" it, to which it would still be perfectly effective for that particular instance to function as a lethal projectile. What Modzy said is correct.

Covenant weapons use sophisticated magnetic fields to contain and shape the Plasma, providing a means by which to turn the ionized gas into a projectile. However, since the weapon can only maintain that field for a certain distance, once the projectile passes outside the range of the weapon, the magnetic field fails and the plasma dissipates (producing the effect we see in Halo:CE if an overcharged Plasma Pistol shot goes too far without hitting anything).

-=Moxus=-

[Modzy]

In real life, plasma cannot be contained because its heat is quickly lost, and therefore is dissipated into the air. There is no practical way of containing plasma as a projectile, it's pretty much physically impossible. There has been talk of "cold" plasma, but what is a cold plasma gonna do if it hits you? Perk you up?

[Moxus]

In real life, plasma cannot be contained because its heat is quickly lost, and therefore is dissipated into the air. There is no practical way of containing plasma as a projectile, it's pretty much physically impossible. There has been talk of "cold" plasma, but what is a cold plasma gonna do if it hits you? Perk you up?

If it was cold enough, it could have a similar effect as liquid Nitrogen. Besides, we're trying to apply reality to Science Fiction.

-=Moxus=-