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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:04:07 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mike Petrucelli writes:
Ha Ha.  Star Wars is actually closer to following the laws of phyisics than
Star Trek on most points.  Hyperspace and the Deathstar are really the only
laws of phyiscs SW breaks.  ST on the other hand breaks laws with most of its
technology and it is still weaker.

Just for my own physics-illiterate curiosity, what laws specifically do you
consider the Death Star to break?

     Dave!



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(...) Even if the Death Star used its entire structure (160km diameter for DS1, 600km diameter DS2) to fuel its hyper-matter reactor it still would not have sufficent energy to blow apart a planet. I'd say that is a major physics problem that was (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) have (...) The Agamemnon would be blown apart in a matter of seconds. One LIGHT Turbolaser bolt imparts roughly 30 terrawatts of energy on a target. (let alone the kinectic energy imparted by the plasma) The Agamemnon's main weopons impart a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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