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[Star Wars] why do blasters shot so slow that you can seem their blast traveling and follow it with the naked eye?

It seems like the guns of today shoot faster and would
Be harder to block than blaster blasts? Is this a plot hole or is their some explanation?
gpt
They're still not easy to dodge for *normal* people; you can see arrows and crossbow bolts with the naked eye, too, but good luck dodging 'em reliably. Blasters aren't designed to gun down Jedi, since Jedi aren't exactly common occurrences. They're designed to kill normal people, and for that purpose it's better to have raw damage output than a little extra speed.

Slugthrowers exist in the Star Wars -verse, but military-grade armor (like what stormtroopers wear) is extremely effective against such projectiles, and even civilian vehicles are made of things like durasteel that will shrug off flechette cannons and the like but can be turned to slag by a high-powered blaster.

Look at what Leia does to the vent covering the garbage compactor on the Death Star in *A New Hope*: one shot literally **vaporizes** a big chunk of durasteel. Try that with one shot of a handheld rapid-fire modern gun.