A helpful guide...

[A Black Falcon]

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm :)

[Dark Jaguar]

How interesting...

Yes, it is true, that site though often dead on accurate in a lot of info does take time to tell a good joke now and again. That's fine, but I think that it's best made clear that it IS a joke. It's not a matter of "if they are stupid enough to believe it they deserve it", so much as "this meme will spread rapidly like wildfire and will never be stomped out completely".

The only issue I take with that site is their unadulterated blatent advertising. Sometimes they explain stuff like "How Microsoft works" or something else that doesn't exactly make sense just to get those advertisements in there. I understand they need to pay for it and all, but they can be informative AND not sell out so completely. Just stop writing those stupid articles, or at least label them AS advertisements. The rest is fine...

I like The Bad Astronomer, namely because he actually takes the time to point out exactly how STUPID some of the advertising that pays for the site is. He uses Google advertising, which attempts to "target" with similar ads that SHOULD relate to that. Too bad he's the bad astronomer, because that means half the ads are for horoscopes, the very thing he believes is a major downfall of society (and it is, it really doesn't make any logical sense, and this is by doing favors like going with the idea of a force that isn't effected by size or distance). http://www.badastronomy.com/

Anyway, other than that it's a pretty informative site. I just hope their "selling out" doesn't go too far. I'll know it has when they start supporting "batter life extending foil" or some clap trap like that. The key will be when they only say how in theory something SHOULD work, instead of going into the actual proofs.

[A Black Falcon]

"if they are stupid enough to believe it they deserve it"

In this case, this is definitely true. It's awesome. Saying "THIS IS A JOKE" would ruin it... it wouldn't be funny if it was clearly noted as fake!

"selling out"? I highly doubt that anyone paid them for that. I'm sure they did it for fun... must have taken some rescearch too, that information is pretty detailed (and all based on real facts that you can learn from looking at enough Star Wars material).