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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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Date: 
Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:45:20 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Dave Schuler writes:
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!

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 solved by 'movie magic' that must be accepted as 'real' for
the purposes of argument.



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  Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
 
(...) 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...
 
(...) 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)

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  Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
 
(...) 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)

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