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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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lugnet.starwars
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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