Poll: Adamantium vs Lightsaber

[The Chemist]

my friends and i are currently discussing if you are sliced in half wether you would be cauterized (sp?) right away or if you'd just bleed out. we came to the conclusion you'd be cauterized. i then posed the the question of a light saber vs Adamantium and no one had a real answer just who they think. can you help us Escapists?

 

[webby]

Clearly the lightsaber. Sure, adamantium is an impressive metal but can it compete with pure, focused energy?? I think not. Lightsabers cut through reinforced metal like butter, sure, the adamantium might pose more resistance but it would still lose.

 

[gigastrike]

I actually heard somewhere that a lightsaber wouldn't actually cauterize you. I'm not sure why though.

 

[Rednog]

I actually heard somewhere that a lightsaber wouldn't actually cauterize you. I'm not sure why though.

In the movies it cauterizes, but I remember reading somewhere that in theory the heat needed to cauterize while slicing would be so hot that the person wielding the weapon would have his/her hand cooked just by holding the darn thing.

 

[GeorgW]

Well, lightsabers work with super charged ions, if I've heard correctly. That wouldn't cauterize a wound, but they do in the movies. So I guess the answer is whatever the writers need?

 

[Flauros]

The question is, does a lightsaber cut through EVERYTHING?!?!?! It always seems to, but im supposing it should have a limit, or you could just throw a lightsaber at a death star and slice through it like a hot penny through butter.


In the comic there was an adamantium door, and they tried to open it with a super welding laser. After an hour, it had a scratch on it like on a cd.

 

[Queen Michael]

I love you for discussing this. Lightsaber wins.

 

[RazgrizInferno]

I think adamantium would win that one. Wolverine has deflected all kinds of crazy beams and energy shit with his claws (somehow)

 

[Gruevy]

assuming that adamantium can't be destroyed by a lightsaber, the weapons would simply phase through each other, potentially killing both combatants.

winning here comes down to who's savvier about the application of force, say if one of the combatants figure out the above scenario they could attempt to use less resistance and simply allow the opponent to phase through and counterattack.

 

[Braonan]

SABER

 

[DelphiSantano]

Adamantium is awesome, but Lightsabers would blatently win this one.

 

[Samwise137]

I actually heard somewhere that a lightsaber wouldn't actually cauterize you. I'm not sure why though.

According to some of the Star Wars novels on the creation of a lightsaber, although the blade is initially created using extreme heat, the saber itself does not generate any heat of its own. That's why I cringe every time I see Qui-Gon cut through that door in episode one. Friction alone can't generate THAT much heat.

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

you seem to be asking (at least) two separate questions here, so i'll answer both of them. first, a lightsaber would cauterize even a bisection, but the shock would still kill you. as mentioned above, the heat required for that would never work in the real world, but these are frakkin' lightsabers we're talking about. nothing about lightsabers would work in the real world.

second, lightsabers don't cut through everything. even in-universe, lightsabers are stopped by a material called cortosis. by extension, we could imagine that adamantium might have similar properties.

 

[Scarim Coral]

This has been done before but to the answer to your question, I voted Adamanitum. I read that in one of the comic Thor Hammer can only dent Captain Shield (which is made of Adamantium) at best. So what chance does the Lightsaber got if the Hammer created by Odin (great big God) couldn't break it? I think the Lightsaber at best can only make a burn mark on it but not break it.

 

[Gruevy]

This has been done before but to the answer to your question, I voted Adamanitum.

Wrong.
Cap's shield is actually made from a very special kind of vibranium.

/nitpick

 

[Nova Helix]

It always bugged me how "Indestructible" translated to "cuts through anything". I think Wolverine is the biggest middle finger to basic kinematics in comicbooks.

Also I once read a comic where Wolverine was sharpening his claws with a whetstone, WTF. Why do people like his comics?

 

[Sarge034]

Unstoppable force VS immovable object anyone?

I vote draw, but you don't have that button..... Good day sir, I SAID GOOD DAY!

 

[Burck]

i then posed the the question of a light saber vs Adamantium and no one had a real answer just who they think. can you help us Escapists?

Only if Adamantium shares qualities with the material cortosis from Star Wars lore.

"Cortosis ore was a very rare, brittle, fibrous material whose conductive properties caused lightsabers to temporarily short out upon contact, although the wielder could solve this problem by turning the blade back on after a couple of seconds. This effect made cortosis a useful material for anti-lightsaber melee weapons, though with repeated strikes, a lightsaber could still cut through it." -Wookieepedia

Otherwise, you can't stop the power of a lightsaber. >

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

The question is, does a lightsaber cut through EVERYTHING?!?!?!

The geek in me thought you'd like to know about Cortosis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_substances#Cortosis].