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Pretend lightsabers are real. What would really happen to Luke when that lightsaber sliced through his hand? Would he feel instantaneous pain? Would the stump bleed? Or is the move pretty realistic in how that is depicted?

>> No.10332178

>>10332175
How does every other character's body react when impacted? Seems to instantly cauterise.

>> No.10332181

>>10332175
I highly doubt Luke would scream or feel any instant pain in that moment considering how quick it is. Maybe shortly afterword.

>> No.10332195

>>10332175
There maybe a delay due to shock before the pain really hits him, but lightsabers aren't particularly precise tools (think the blast door Qwi Gon stick his lightsaber into and melted around the lightsaber) so it will definitely cause damage to the stump, cauterising the wound perhaps, which will trigger an assload of nerves.
Yeah, it'll hurt like fuck. Perhaps crying out was too soon, but it could also be explained by reflex, like how you say "ow" when you bump into something before you realize it didn't actually hurt. Because you see it coming you react automatically before actually analyzing it.

>> No.10332333

>>10332175
The plasma in the blade would cause all the water in his arm to expand, making it explode

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10332636

I’m more confused as to why they amputated more of his arm when he only lose his hand.

>> No.10332650

>>10332175
according to some star wars novel i read when i was 9, the lightsabers cauterize the wounds, hence no bleeding. use that hypothesis as you will, it may be a cannon explanation, but who knows what the actual logistics of these things would be.

>> No.10332653

>>10332175
>Pretend lightsabers are real
stopped reading

>> No.10332685

https://youtu.be/cQx5pFI_M44

When the plasma cutter slices through stuff it actually sounds kinda like a lightsaber from the original movies, nifty.

>> No.10332689

>>10332636
Probably because the end got cauterized

>> No.10332692

>>10332175
Pretend something fake is real. Answer my question. Well assuming biology is the same you'll have severed nerve endings so yes it'll hurt. Pretending you're magic is real, it may or may not rant be an issue and he could probably use the force to prevent the signals from getting to his brain but he's not that sophisticated. Plenty of other things you could do if you pretend magic and fake toys are real too.

>> No.10332785

>>10332175
>is the move pretty realistic
Oh my...
It's fiction. Whatever it shows is realistic within that framework. Check what you have left of a brain at the door when you walk in and just enjoy the movie.

>> No.10332956

>>10332175
>hot plasma slices through your wrist
I think you'd have more problems than just at the amputation site.

>> No.10333046

>>10332692
autism

>> No.10333061

>>10332636
Because 90% of the muscles and tendons that control your hand are located in the forearm and it's easier to just have a plug into the nerves than connecting each and every surviving tendon to a mechanical tendon in the hand.

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10333168

>>10333061
Adding to this. High temperature plasma is unpredictable. It may burn through tendons or flash boil blood. It wouldn't be a constant wound, but pretty ugly with fragments of gore. They would have to cut this all off to find good tissue to graft to.

>> No.10333187

>>10332685
so it can't actually cut off anything if there's bone and shit?

>> No.10334391

>>10333187
It'll cut the bone if the temperature is high enough, but the heat transfer would probably damage your whole arm

>> No.10334442

>>10334391
>>10333187
You people should remember the scene from terminator where the resistance soldier is hit with plasma cannon fire. Blows them apart.

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10334537

>>10333168

>> No.10334564

>>10332685
>that fucking bubbling when it first starts
Christ that would hurt like hell

>> No.10334846

>>10332175
>hot enough to instantly melt meter-thick scifi steel
nigga's on fire.

>> No.10336713

>>10332685
This was morbidly fascinating...

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>>10334537
Nice!

Thanks, I didn't have that one.

>> No.10336954

>>10332181
The Force conveys the sense of pain instantly.

>Arguing the science of a magical situation.

>> No.10337675

>>10336737
>THE_ARK
>D:

>> No.10337721

>>10336954
>The Force conveys the sense of pain
Correct. Luke's minty chlorines instantly told him it was gonna hurt.

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10337746

>>10332175
I kind of doubt there would be clean cauterization within the brief time it sliced through, so it would probably be bleeding some.

>> No.10337806

>>10336737
Could you dump somewhere?