Who Knew "The Nub-Nub Song" Was A Funeral Lament?
While reading something else entirely, I learned a very welcome fact. If the second Death Star was actually as close to Endor as it was depicted in Return of the Jedi, that is, a miles-wide sphere of metal, advanced polymers, and vast nuclear and future-tech reactors orbiting a mere 500 miles above the surface of the moon, then the debris and radiation fallout from its destruction almost certainly sterilized the planet and killed all the Ewoks still living there shortly after the Rebel forces departed. In an ideal world, Jar Jar Binks and his family would have crash landed on the far side not long before this incident.
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The author of Irregular
The author of Irregular Webcomic (also featuring LEGO characters, found at http://www.irregularwebcomic.net) has some fascinating data about the basic physical problems that the Star Wars universe has yet to explain. Besides the obvious (sound in space, ships that bank to turn, etc.), he details some of the more complex problems like the waste heat generated by the Death Star's superlaser and how the heck Coruscant can even exist.
Instead of rehashing them all here, I'm just going to point you to this link:
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=130&theme=7&dir=next5
And tell ya to just keep reading the Star Wars theme. Some of these will have you rolling on the floor, unless you're a bona fide Star Wars geek, in which case you'll be foaming-at-the-mouth mad.
EDog
These sorts of flaws are
These sorts of flaws are common in movie sf. But Star Wars, more or less, kept the physics howlers at least somewhat in the background, and they didn't affect the plot all that much.
Star Trek, on the other hand, sheesh. Like no one ever realized that, in the transporter, they had a machine that could make an infinite number of clones? You'd think someone would have played around with that at some point in the hundreds of years they had it.
B,
B,
Similarly, there was a Next Generation episode that discussed the Picard Maneuver, whereby young ensign Picard used a split second warp-speed jump to make his ship appear in 2 locations at once, confusing his enemy and winning the day.
Yeeeaaaahhhh, that pretty much would've been done the first time ftl warships actually came to blows. Or at the very least, it would've had amusement/recreational applications. But to have "discovered" it after 2 centuries of ftl vessels was goofy.
And that's just one example- pretty much every episode had one.
But hey, so long as you can
But hey, so long as you can reverse the polarity, it's all good in tha hood, yo.
EDog