| tarheel91 said: Yeah, I know all about plasma. Heck, neon signs give off a crapload of light. However, we all know people like to use cool sounding terms like plasma in the SciFi realm without actually meaning to refer to the actual thing. I mean, if that's really ionized gas like plasma actually is, it'd half to be in some sort of container to prevent its dissipation. However, there doesn't appear to be any container (I don't think hitting someone in full armor with a glass tube is going to cut them apart) and the gas isn't dispersing, so we can already assume this isn't the actual plasma we've come to know and (possibly) love. As a result, we can't assume anything about its properties. I like to simply think of it as fancy alien tech that doesn't conform to our normal laws. |
Plasma is highly responsive to magnets due to its ionized nature. All they really need is technology to shape a strong magnetic field and it would do the job just fine. So real plasma would work just fine. But you're right it doesn't mean it has to be "real" plasma.
In either case even if we assume its some alien technology the fact remains that since we cannot look past it means it blocks light. If it doesn't cast a shadow then we should see the ground behind it because the only reason we see anything is because light bounces off of it and into our eye.
Not trying to be contrary, but really it makes no sense for alien technology to just up and decide to block some light sources and not others even if we assume it can choose to do it in the first place. =P
PS - Yes I am a geek, and I proudly admit it...but then again isn't anyone who posts on a video game forum?
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