If you looked it up, "Yes, lightsabers were fully adjustable for any need. The length could be adjusted as well as the thickness of the containing shield. In legends Luke was able to change his into a piton to climb down a curved stone roof, or it could be shortened to become a shoto saber."

It sure was - in the end when the Nostromo detonates there’s no sound just blinding light until the shock wave hits the escape pod. It’s the shock wave rippling through the escape pod that makes the noise.

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The light sabers stop after a certain length due to being contained by a field similar to a magnetic field. As for the lasers they're superheated bolts of plasma not beams of light.

Because they’re not lasers. The ammo for firearms is a charged gas (like tibanna from Bespin). Lightsaber blades are plasma.

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Great. Our first contact will be an AI Chatbot watching an alien version of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

I think it's a wonderful picture. You captured the alignment quite well!

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Engines burn fuel to propel the spacecraft. They could be chemicals, nuclear reactions or unobtainium. When the spacecraft suffers an unscheduled rapid disassembly, the burning just accelerates to the point of maximum exothermal energy.

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Venus and Jupiter look amazing when they are in conjunction.

There is oxygen in space. That's what makes a nebula glow green, it's oxygen.

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I understand that reference.

I don’t know Jack shit about any of this stuff but I come to the comments hoping someone does and has some fun insight

Spaghettification by a black hole now in the act of being observed, LIVE. As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating."

Well...it was probably dragged into it thousands of years ago.

The explanation is even the most true to life scifi movies something like Interstellar, trample all over true science, at least as far as we understand it, were talking about a world that has ships that can travel faster than light and not just be reduced to atoms

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this sight the last several mornings at 5am... Magical. Never mind the 9 degree weather with -10 windchill, as I slipped into 110 degree hot mineral water. YES. Adventure Nerding.

The lasers you see are actually 2 projectiles bouncing the light of the laser back and forth between each other in order to contain the beam in a more compact space.

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Ha, and this comment is your contribution?

I always liked to think the lightsaber was like a plasma torch.

This past Thursday at 6:26pm in middle tn