this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2024
611 points (96.8% liked)

Science Memes

12696 readers
5232 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/1104168

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (51 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.

[–] itsnotits 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the sphere entirely comprises* dense rock

or

the sphere is entirely composed* of dense rock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought you might be correcting me so I checked up the definition. Both are okay?

'Composed of' is a better sounding phrasing though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

itsnotits said “X or Y” because both X and Y are correct.

You mixed the two by writing “is comprised of”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh got it, thank you!

load more comments (49 replies)