Originally posted by LandoSpeeder2
lol, yeah, why are we discussing this, next thing we know we will be trying to figure out why the Jedi have the force power and if it's logical, lol.
No no, absolulety not. There is such a thing as SW logic and the Force is part of that.
But we never saw people sliding to one side when a ship did.
And yeah, I read the novel... but then it would mean that'd have to start floating I guess... Then again... Han and Leia didn't float in the space slug's belly.
I think Lucas got his ideas from our nature, electromagnetism and gravity are forces that provide an energy that no one knows where they come from. gravity exists, but what provides that force. Law of energy conservation is that energy can not be created nor destroyed. Our galaxy is close to the star wars galaxy, except they figured out a way to use magnestism alot better. Although gravity generators would be very complicated because they would have to be regulated because gravitation forces change throughout space because of large masses. Lucas also violates Einsteins theory that a ship travels faster then the speed of light.
Anyway, if you can have a hyperdrive, then a providing gravity on a ship would be easy.
Space doesn;t seem much like a vacumm in star wars either, General Grievous went out to space and he was all right. wouldn't his organs crush or something?
Space must not be much of a vacuum in the Star Wars universe, otherwise we couldn't see lasers shooting through space -- to be able to see an energy source without looking directly at it, one needs there to be some kind of atmosphere to scatter the energy -- much the same way our blue sky is a result of sunlight being scattered by the earth's atmosphere. One thing Lucas got right was R2D2's ability to wheel around on the exterior of Anakin's ship when it was traveling at great speed -- there is almost no friction or other forces in space to slow down R2 -- thus he will maintain the speed of the object he is on. However, Lucas goofs moments later when the attacking droid pecking on the ship is blown off -- as if a sudden gust of wind in space blew his remaining pieces away. This "wind" somehow did not affect R2
I think you mean when R4 got his head torn off by those droids on Obiwans ship. yes, with no friction R4's head should have just floated away rather than a wind like gust. Although, those attacking droids could have provided that thrust of force. A sudden burst in the ship could have made that attacking droid fall away, because it wasn;t attached.
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Since when did SW science ever make the remotest sense?
I see no reason why this does not fit into the fuzzy logic of Star Wars. The ship was veering out of control therefore they lost their footing, just as if they were in a big zeppelin- and every ship in SW has always acted like it was in an atmosphere, from the way the X-Wings bank to having a top speed.
This fits that exactly.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
...Since when did SW science ever make the remotest sense?
I see no reason why this does not fit into the fuzzy logic of Star Wars. The ship was veering out of control therefore they lost their footing, just as if they were in a big zeppelin- and every ship in SW has always acted like it was in an atmosphere, from the way the X-Wings bank to having a top speed.
This fits that exactly.
It does make science sense, just not always, like the plot