Bishop Steiner, on 29 March 2017 - 07:46 AM, said:
Yes, now look up how a vibro blade works.
A motor of some sort vibrates the blade so fast it heats up. Sound like it's going to be durable or even terribly effective against heavy armor?
Plasmacutting came to my mind while thinking about the "possible working" of a vibroblade while writing the quoted message .
Also : Metal is never mathematically perfect homogenous, so it will have weakspots that might be found ... or not .
Furthermore : If something as brittle as ceramics can be used to cut/mill/turn/grind even some of the strongest metal alloys then there is a good chance those BT nerds gonna have some chain of thought hammered to fill in the technological blank spots for Vibroblades (see zero-gravity production method needed for FerroFiber).
Lastly : Concentrated and directed vibrational sources can disrupt the molecular bonds of any material in such a way that it just disintegrates or loses all coherence .
See: US Army/Army of the former Sovietunion playing around with sonic disruptors and stuff ... as a pointer towards the massive damage soundwaves alone can inflict, ask some of the whales that have recently stranded due to reason unknown (oh wait, we cant, cause animals are stupid, have no language and dont feel...wait what? /sarcasm off), for which I guess some naval testing of ELF radios could be assigned blame to ( ELF= extreme low frequency . Basically the sound emitted will hug the curvature of the earth and travel way further than anything else under water . And to generate sounds so low and so powerful you need GIGATONS of output power ... which will turn sensitive innards to mush and kill stuff that is just in the way by bad luck or attraction to it) but that is only guesswork from my part, since I haven´t really heard of any sickness that mostly afflicts whales, dolphins and other kind of water creatures that rely on some internal way of pathfinding .
Sorry for the digression, 18 years as machine tooling engineer and an all-encompassing interest into everything made me do this to y´alls
Edited by The Shortbus, 29 March 2017 - 08:27 AM.