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    Boing Boing‏Verified account @BoingBoing 4 Sep 2015

    Adam Savage proves Star Wars blasters can't be lasers http://boingboing.net/2015/09/04/adam-savage-proves-star-wars-b.html …pic.twitter.com/9iPAEV1IFm

    8:27 AM - 4 Sep 2015
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      1. Michael Kudron  🍍‏ @MKudron 4 Sep 2015
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        @MythBusters @BoingBoing Yes, they can. Star Wars is a work of fiction, It's not real.

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      1. Panettone Munching System™‏ @PrototypeCube 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis i'd have thought the fact that you can see the bolt moving would be enough evidence of that

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      1. Tiotags‏ @tiotags 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing dude, light travels at light speed in void, inside superheated gas it can travel at 130mph :P

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      1. Entropy‏ @entropy11 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis kinda blows your whole 'Star Trek wins because lol lasers', doesn't it?

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      1. Giancarlo Ubaldino‏ @TheGCU 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis In the Expanded Universe books you find out they're not lasers. The basically fire a bolt made of gas.

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      1. Pestis‏ @pestis1 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis pretty sure they are supposed to be encased tibanna gas

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      1. Maxwellelvis‏ @MaxwellElvis 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @MythBusters Isn't it superheated plasma?

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      1. JJ Flash‏ @jjflash572 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis I've never heard them called 'laser blasters' and I'm old enough to have seen originals in theaters.

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      1. Scinzon‏ @Scinzon 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis *Nerd Mode ON* EVERYONE knew that...

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      1. Nick Sayer‏ @nwsayer 4 Sep 2015
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        .@BoingBoing @donttrythis It seems to me like an ordinary Earth firearm is, frankly, a better weapon. It's just less photogenic.

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      1. /dev/dull/alastair‏ @dev_dull 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis I sorta' thought it went without saying that they shoot some sort of plasma. ya'know, kinda like lightsabers...

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      1. Andrew‏ @AirborneYYC 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis wouldn't bullets be more effective, then? Can't dodge those after they've been fired...

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      1. JohnnyBoy (Offline)‏ @SilverComrade26 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis I already knew blasters don't fire lasers. They fire high energized particle beams, actually(Wookieepedia)

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      1. Rizzo Campbell‏ @RizzoCampbell 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis what are you doing to me, Adam?! Killing my childhood, that's what.

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      1. Skost‏ @necropant 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis Its almost like it's sci fi!

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      1. jenny‏ @Jendem13 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis Adam,i suck at the maths, but i have to say you are the 1st ever really help me appreciate it in an artistic way ;)

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      1. Matt Baldo‏ @mattjbaldo 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis I can't be the only one who reacted to this still thinking "I don't remember David Hasslehoff in Star Wars."

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      1. Hervé Simard‏ @herve_simard 4 Sep 2015
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        @BoingBoing @donttrythis @JamieNoTweet You are just awesome. *Respect*

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