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    Re: A couple stupid SW questions... —Dave Schuler
   (...) Just for my own physics-illiterate curiosity, what laws specifically do you consider the Death Star to break? Dave! (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: A couple stupid SW questions... —Mike Petrucelli
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: A couple stupid SW questions... —Dave Schuler
     (...) Yeah, that's what I figured you were talking about. Maybe Alderaaaaaan had a core of highly unstable material just itching to explode, and the Death Star simply set it off... Nah! Dave! (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: A couple stupid SW questions... —Selçuk Göre
    (...) As I know of DS1 and DS2 diameters are 120 and 160 km (or thereabouts) respectively. Where do you get these numbers? Of course I could be wrong, but I just want to learn about your source, since the diameter of second one extremely large with (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: A couple stupid SW questions... —Mike Petrucelli
   (...) than (...) only (...) its (...) you (...) 600km (...) The 120 and 160 km numbers are arbitrary ones created by offical sources. If you hang around the newsgrourp alt.startrek.vs.starwars long enough you will find many references to people to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
 

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