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Have you ever noticed how everything blows up in Star Wars? I mean everything. Shoot the control panel, BOOM! Shoot an AT-ST, BOOM! Shoot a Tie Fighter, BOOM! Never mind that it's not possible for fire to exist in space. Explosions are cool!
I mean, the only explination for this is that Uranium has replaced Iron as the chief metal in building materials.
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Blow-Upy Explode.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 12:38 PM
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 01:27 PM
Yes, you're absolutely right... let's add that to the list of 7,000 other things in Star Wars (and come to that, most action movies) which violate the laws of physics. SW was always intended as fantasy rather than serious sci-fi; besides, most people aren't scientists, and are willing to suspend disbelief to some extent if it makes for a more exciting film. As you say, explosions are cool! And so are lightsabers, blasters, the Force, spaceships which fly like jet planes... 
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The sandpeople had women and children. We know this because Anakin killed them how could he tell? The children might be smaller but I never saw a sandperson with breasts. Did they hike their skirts and show him some leg or something?
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Also, I can see the point of wanting to kidnap a human and use her as a slave, but they didn't. They tied her to a flimsy easel for a month. It's assumed they had to feed and give her water. What for? Was she purely ornamental? I can understand them wanting the droids, you can sell those for a lot of money, but a chick who's only skills are finding non-existand mushrooms and getting randomly pregnant, you're not going to get much.
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 04:23 PM
Jar JAr better blow up.
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 02:01 AM
Guys, I'm not really a physics expert, but I think that explosions CAN happen in outer space or underwater. The only issue is that it doesn't last too long.
What kind of fuel do they use in Star Wars, anyway? I know that rockets have been using special rocket fuel ever since the 1930's (and World War 2 when they finally starting working right), and that fuel is mixed with oxygen so that it can burn even when there's no air outside to help its combustion. That's how spaceship can still proppell themselves in the void of space. They can explode, but I SERISOULY doubt it's to the level shown in most movies...
What kind of fuel do they use in Star Wars, anyway? I know that rockets have been using special rocket fuel ever since the 1930's (and World War 2 when they finally starting working right), and that fuel is mixed with oxygen so that it can burn even when there's no air outside to help its combustion. That's how spaceship can still proppell themselves in the void of space. They can explode, but I SERISOULY doubt it's to the level shown in most movies...
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 07:47 AM
QUOTE (Paladin @ Feb 22 2005, 08:01 AM)
Guys, I'm not really a physics expert, but I think that explosions CAN happen in outer space or underwater. The only issue is that it doesn't last too long.
Yes, I think they could happen, but not on the scale we see in the movies because the oxygen would escape too quickly. And you certainly wouldn't get an explosion every time a panel on the outside of a spaceship was struck, or anything like that.
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 11:48 AM
Come on guys. You should know that the ships shields and plating convert blaster fire to simpler molecules, most of them a volatile mixture of glowing and extremely flammable substances, not to mention oxygen. And with all the tachyon particles escaping the intraspeludic reaction the explosions actually slow down. Duh, and you call yourselves fans... 
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 12:46 PM
QUOTE (HK 47 @ Feb 22 2005, 05:48 PM)
Come on guys. You should know that the ships shields and plating convert blaster fire to simpler molecules, most of them a volatile mixture of glowing and extremely flammable substances, not to mention oxygen. And with all the tachyon particles escaping the intraspeludic reaction the explosions actually slow down. Duh, and you call yourselves fans...
Yeah, because everyone knows that when you're designing shields and plating, it's best to make them out of substances which are more likely to cause explosions when hit.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:38 PM
I heard that in the new Battlestar Glactica series they were trying to make space battles more realistic.
Whenever there is a shot from space, everything is silent
They then jump inside the internal atmosphere of the ship and you hear the impacts.
When the ships go to warp they just blink out silently, which i think is cool, althought i think the most realistic warp idea is the gates in Babylon 5.
I think the nuked mothership explosion in ID4 or the nuke asteroid in Armageddon was pretty well done.
btw, how many times do i have to shoot a car in the door with a pistol to get it to explode?
Whenever there is a shot from space, everything is silent
They then jump inside the internal atmosphere of the ship and you hear the impacts.
When the ships go to warp they just blink out silently, which i think is cool, althought i think the most realistic warp idea is the gates in Babylon 5.
I think the nuked mothership explosion in ID4 or the nuke asteroid in Armageddon was pretty well done.
btw, how many times do i have to shoot a car in the door with a pistol to get it to explode?
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 09:08 PM
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 10:59 PM
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