Laser gates and why you shouldn't lick them

I got to thinking today. So those laser gates in the Naboo power complex in TPM. They're strong enough to BLOCK a lightsaber. But what's the effect on less powerful stuff... like humans?

Imagine Obi-Wan tried to just run through the gate. What would happen?

(1) It'd be like running into a big lightsaber. He'd just lose the entire front half of his body, fall down dead like one giant cauterized wound.
(2a) The force of the wall would block him, but not hurt him -- he'd just fall down.
(2b) Same as the above, but if he concentrated very hard, he could use the Force to push the electrons away and make a hole big enough to leap through
(3) Comedy third option


Either way, if we were hanging out on Naboo, and you dared me to lick a laser gate, I'd say no, no matter how much you teased.



Rick McCallum loves you!

 

Go on, for all times sakes!!

 

I'm pretty sure if anyone hit one of the laser gates it would kill them.

Either way, if we were hanging out on Naboo, and you dared me to lick a laser gate, I'd say no, no matter how much you teased.

No,me neather.

 

While options one and two are viable, I would have to say the best would be three simply out of sheer comedic value.

 

Apparently, the lasergates were there to keep varmints out of the molten pit. Lucas was going to show a rodent getting zapped by the gates, but ended up not.

 

Even if you were triple dog dared?

I mean, that's how the kids in "A Christmas Story" get the kid to lick the flag pole.

 

Maul:"Hmm,I wonder if this gate tastes like cherry?....Ow!"

 

An essential design feature of any power facility is the have the walkways studded with sequentially-activating force field generators. This will at least impede the flow of personnel in the facility and will probably result in a lot of deaths and injuries.

I guess the Galactic Republic never had an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

 

Think about it... Maul's saber hit the beam. It didn't cut through the beam and the saber blade wasn't damaged in any way.

I'd bet that Obi-Wan would just smack into the beams like Wile E. Coyote into a mountainside painted to look like it has a tunnel.
It would probably hurt (and sting abit), but it wouldn't kill him... unless he was caught in the beam as it was activated.
THAT would suck.

 

I figure if Obi-wan tried running through them, we'd get what would be the equivalent of a large BugZapper.

 

Option 3 - Obi-Wan is disintegrated, but his boots inexplicably survive and have smoke coming out of them.

 

it cuts off his face now we call him "Scabface".

 

Option 3: He´d run against it and be thrown back all the way into the hangar because of the newly improved rubber laser beam doors Amidala bought for her palace.

 

Lick them??? Well, they can repair hands, so why can't they repair tongues? Heh heh, artificial tongue...

 

Adam Bertocci of the Jedi Council Forums, will you defer your motion to allow a commission to explore the validity of your accusations?

 

You woulda thought licking energy binders would have done more than make your tongue go numb, too.

 

c'mon AdamBertocci, lick, lick, lick, lick