system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Wars] If you dropped a lightsaber pointed straight down, would it keep drilling its way down to the planet's core?
gpt
No: the beam is narrower than the hilt, so it wouldn't be able to penetrate past the hilt until the blade's energy melted the rock and earth the handle it would have to pass through, at which point the molten rock that process created would proceed to melt the handle and destroy the saber.