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Re:The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors by notTyler on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:45AM (#19700482)
A working lightsaber would make you rich for a week until people started accidentally chopping off their limbs and suing you.
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Re:The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors by ben_w on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:39PM (#19701402)
“It’s a sword. They’re not meant to be safe.”

Probably be a really useful piece of industrial equipment, not just a really strange weapon.

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Re:The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors by jandrese on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:20PM (#19701726)
It's just a fancy plasma cutter. The defining feature of a light saber--being able to stop other light sabers from passing through it--seems of limited utility in an industrial setting.
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