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Re: Ewok Holocaust
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:55:11 GMT
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in article G7s3Cx.6C1@lugnet.com, Bryan Hodges wrote:
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> Not only dust but our planet is constantly barraged by meteors and space
> junk. Most of the stuff burns up in the atmosphere without any detrimental
> effects, the stuff that does hit the Earth is typically so small that it
> causes very little damage.
True, but the Death Star blew up over a small area, so a tightly
concentrated area of vaporized Death Star might be a bit different in
effect. IANAS (I Am Not A Scientist) so I can't say for certain.
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> Of course, there's also the aspect of the gravitational fields produced by
> something of that size. Everything produces a gravitational field; the
> higher the mass, the stronger the field. Just having something like that in
> orbit would effect the winds, the tides, the atmospheric pressure, etc.
> When it gets destroyed the gravity field is dissipated and that alone could
> have very strange effects. Imagine if the Moon were to blow up... the
> planet would probably survive and a good amount of life would survive as
> well, but the loss of the Moon's gravity would do some odd things to the
> global climate.
True, but the DS wouldn't be anywhere close to the mass of the moon. While
very large, it's nowhere near as dense, because it's a honeycomb of
machinery and space for troops, TIE fighters, etc. Again, IANAS, so who
knows?
Now, the alien mothership in Independence Day would have seriously affected
things, because they actually say "It's 1/4 the mass of the moon" But then,
there were all sorts of crazy things going on in that movie. ;^)
~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
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Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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