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Originally Posted by binky9
So, the only reason the tracers look like lasers is that George Lucas decided this was how a laser shot would look, if you could see one?
This whole debate is an incredible waste of time.
binky9
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Not entirely correct, real spacefights would be really uncool in a movie theatre, as would real laser beams be.
So George Lucas decided to use the cool flight mechanics and tracers from wwii combat footage, just replace the background with space and the corsairs with x-wings / zeros with tie-fighters -> voilá: a cool spacefight!