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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i don't know much about star wars, but wouldn't gravity be weaker near the centre as you'd have less mass below you and more above you

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 months ago (6 children)

The construction of the first Death Star

Cross-sections of the DS-1 Death Star.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/DS-1_Death_Star_Mobile_Battle_Station

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Since it was 3d structure (a sphere), i think both of them are true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They filmed it on earth

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's no way they used that much of the interior. Where do all those giants pits go?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Logic says B but LEGO says A

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Get your science out of my Star Wars

[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (21 children)

I know we'd all like some scientific actualisation of Star Wars but I mean:

  • They made noise in space 'cause that's fun.
  • There was always gravity on pretty much any ship.
  • I don't really recall any spacewalks so we don't see any instance of 'no gravity'
  • There's hyperspace since lightyears is a bit of a long time.
  • Stormtroopers seem very scientifically and inefficiently accurate

At this point I think the Star Wars movies (the oldies) pretty much ignored a fair bit of the science.

But if it was a death star literally put there in our universe, I think there would be a bit of structural considerations for gravity, but not huge due to it being quite hollow. Gravity is pretty strong when the sphere is entirely comprised of dense rock and no air. A mostly hollow sphere of air where air is something close to 1/1000 that of rock (yes, used the density of water lol) is not going to get much of a rollicking from gravity.

Edit: an interesting 'expose' on the moon landings claim one thing: why were the photos so relatively boring? Because they were real and that's all they could get for all the limited resources they had at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

they made noise in space cause it’s fun

Like the famous Bass Wars

https://youtu.be/utFRqsT61-k

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is just my head canon, but the noise actually comes from speakers on board the ship /in the cockpit, to help give the pilot an audio cue as to where hazards are around them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This is just my head canon, but the noise actually comes from speakers on board the ship /in the cockpit

I'm pretty sure this was explicitly addressed in at least one of the pre-Disney novels, and was somewhat entrenched with a part of the fanbase afterward.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

One of my gripes with star wars is a pilot can fly any ship from any faction without prior flight experience on that ship. They just go in flip some switches, push some buttons then jumps into the pilot seat and off they go.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's one of the many things Andor gets right, at least with that shuttle they steal near the start of the series. Cassian basically chews his crew out for planning to just jump into an unfamiliar ship and wing it.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don’t really recall any spacewalks so we don’t see any instance of ‘no gravity’

in The Last Jedi, Leia gets blasted into hard space and experiences weightlessness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't there a space fight with horses on the wing of a star destroyer in the rise of Skywalker?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol yes but that was within a planetary gravity well

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (6 children)

And then it really gets accurate.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Good call on it being hollow and mostly air.

FYI for soil, air is ~1/2000 the density.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Lightyears measure distance, not time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Quantum Physics joined the chat

When time is measured in meters you know you're in for one hell of a ride.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don’t really recall any spacewalks so we don’t see any instance of ‘no gravity’

Leia did one in the sequels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Spacewalks are a bad example anyway. A ship's artificial gravity could extend outside its hull. Conversely, the lack of spacewalks doesn't mean we aren't shown the absence of gravity, since we see the ships themselves maneuvering in a way that suggests a lack of gravity.

Gravity in SW is still kind of fucked, but not "gravity in deep space" fucked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I don't deny the star wars universe is getting a bit more of an update in the cinemas, especially post-Interstellar and whatnot, but space opera in the 80s was really intent on ignoring the stark reality of space for both constraints of filming and viewership. Goddamn fun though.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I imagine they were shaping gravity anyway they wanted to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, faster-than-light travel is an older technology in Star Wars than agriculture is in the real world.

I'd expect a little thing like artificial gravity to be a solved problem.

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