A real Star Wars seems impossible.
We still are far behind in terms of technology that has been shown in Star Wars.
And travelling to space from a planet's surface and then back to the Planet's surface is not so easy as shown in the SW movies, because this kind of travelling in real life a very risky thing as we have seen a "Space Shuttle" blown up in the Earth's atmosphere due to some minor issues about 3 years ago on its return.
I find it quite possible in the next 500 years. Our technology has increased 10 fold in the last 50 years with the creation of computers, which are becoming increadebly advanced. lightsabers and blasters are only a small step away, and faster then light speed travel will follow only a little while after.
Originally posted by Council#13
I honestly don't know why we would build laser weapons where you can see the bolts flying at you, when you could have a perfectly good gun where you can't see the bullets.
According to some book I read on the weapons and technology of the SW saga, those red and green bolts aren't actually the laser beams, but are simply side effects of some chemical reaction or whatever within the weapon.
A load of crap when you consider the jedi deflect the coloured bolts away, not some invisible energy source or whatever....