what would an energy sword do to you?

JNDreher wrote:

If a skillet is hot enough, water on it beads up and dances around instead of instantly vaporizing. This is because the water molecules that vaporizes on contact creates a barrier between the hot skillet and the rest of the water.

A similar thing would happen with the energy sword through a person's body. It would burn/boil the flesh around the cut, but would not cause the person to explode.

FestivHunter wrote:

I believe it’s kind of like a Lightsaber. So it would boil the insides

Sedrin wrote:

It's been described as deadly enough to slice ODSTs in half and gouge open Titanium-A armour. John narrowly avoided being killed with one in First Strike and it still resulted in static in his visor due to the intense heat along with the material of his MJOLNIR armour being sawed through. Needless to say you don't want to get attacked by one of those weapons.

Orion Crux 9 wrote:

Thel Vadam4201 wrote:

FestivHunter wrote:

I believe it’s kind of like a Lightsaber. So it would boil the insides

I wish it blew people up :(

please don’t take that the wrong way

Not going to lie if I slashed someone with a sword and they exploited, I'd die of laughter, double the laughter if Grunt Birthday Party is on.

JNDreher wrote:

Thel Vadam4201 wrote:

JNDreher wrote:

If a skillet is hot enough, water on it beads up and dances around instead of instantly vaporizing. This is because the water molecules that vaporizes on contact creates a barrier between the hot skillet and the rest of the water.

A similar thing would happen with the energy sword through a person's body. It would burn/boil the flesh around the cut, but would not cause the person to explode.

Dang IT!! I wish they did :(

ah well. thanks. still a really cool weapon. know anything else cool about plasma weapons??

The Youtube channel "Hacksmith Industries" has a video where they test the cutting ability of a real-world Proto-Lightsaber.
It actually does a lot more setting on fire than it does cutting.

Interestingly enough, that's why the Covenant's Energy Projector/Ventral Beam includes super-accelerated particles to blast away the barrier that forms from the surface being vaporized, allowing more of the heat to get through to the rest of the material, increasing the effectiveness of the weapon.

Skywalker935 wrote:

No idea, but it must hurt a lot as your insides vaporize, although in halo movies like Halo Forward Unto Dawn people are still alive for several seconds already impaled

JNDreher wrote:

Skywalker935 wrote:

No idea, but it must hurt a lot as your insides vaporize, although in halo movies like Halo Forward Unto Dawn people are still alive for several seconds already impaled

That's actually accurate. The idea of people instantly transitioning between being living and dead upon being wounded isn't true to reality.
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An experiment was done after an execution by beheading, in which the name of the executed individual was called after the execution, and he continued to respond to his name being called, looking at the speaker each time his name was called, for several seconds after being beheaded.

JNDreher wrote:

FestivHunter wrote:

JNDreher wrote:

Skywalker935 wrote:

No idea, but it must hurt a lot as your insides vaporize, although in halo movies like Halo Forward Unto Dawn people are still alive for several seconds already impaled

That's actually accurate. The idea of people instantly transitioning between being living and dead upon being wounded isn't true to reality.
Precautionary: example being put in a spoiler, because it's a bit morbid.

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An experiment was done after an execution by beheading, in which the name of the executed individual was called after the execution, and he continued to respond to his name being called, looking at the speaker each time his name was called, for several seconds after being beheaded.

That, is super odd. I always thought that you could were alive for a few seconds after beheading etc. And with body wounds, you will not instantly die because of shock (correct me if I’m wrong)
but say your head was blown off/up, you would instantly die

Apart from getting blown up, I don't think there is an instant death, just quick and slow ones.