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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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Date: 
Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:48:20 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mike Petrucelli writes:
In lugnet.starwars, Dave Schuler writes:
Just for my own physics-illiterate curiosity, what laws specifically do you
consider the Death Star to break?

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.

  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!



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