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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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lugnet.starwars
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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.
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> Just for my own physics-illiterate curiosity, what laws specifically do you
> consider the Death Star to break?
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> 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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| (...) 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...
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| (...) 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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