7/6/2023 0 Comments Ewok star warsStar Wars in the '70s: Drive-in theaters and Leia hair buns.It took me 23 years to watch a Star Wars film.That time the first 'Star Wars' blew our minds."Given that 'Return of the Jedi' portrays the Ewoks as cannibals - yes, cannibals - they may possibly survive a small period of time by eating a few captured imperials and then starting on each other until they're down to the last Ewok, surrounded by the bones of its comrades and the charred remains of its home world," Kane said.įollow Nola Taylor Redd on Twitter or Google+. Surviving Ewoks would suffer from a slow death by starvation. "Would any of the Ewoks have survived the holocaust resulting from the destruction of the Death Star? God, I hope not!" he said. Kane agreed with this assessment, noting that it would be far more humane for the Ewoks to suffer a quick death. Using the simulation of the Death Star made during the rebels' briefing, a planetary scientist calculated exactly what the destruction of the satellite would have meant for life on Endor - and it isn't good. Such an impact would obliterate the surface of Endor, with every body of water on the moon flash-heating into steam and every forest igniting in a global firestorm. Using his own crater-simulation program, Minton determined that a ball of fragments from the Death Star would leave behind a crater almost 4 times larger than the Chixculub crater in Mexico associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs. "More or less what happens after the destruction is that the entire mass of the Death Star simply falls onto the location of the shield generator," Minton said. Minton also concluded that the relatively gentle explosion of the second Death Star when compared to the first would lead to limited vaporization of its material, and that the fragments would not get much of a boost in velocity from the explosion. With such an impossible rotation, Minton concluded that the Death Star was instead held aloft by anti-gravity technology, which, he said, is widely available in the "Star Wars" universe. "The rebels wouldn't have finished tying their shoelaces before they had lost their chance to attack the imperial bunker during the day," Kane said. Nor would that rotation match the onscreen cinematics. "Since Lucas doesn't care that 'parsec' is a unit of distance, I suspect he doesn't give a damn about Newton's version of Kepler's third law," Kane said, taking a stab at Han Solo's boast that his ship - the Millennium Falcon - made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. Physics, of course, has never really stopped movie makers. Kane explained that, from a physics perspective, such a rotation would never have allowed the moon to form. To keep one side permanently facing Endor, as the briefing scene shows, would require the moon to spin a little more than once every hour, making it what Minton called "an exceedingly fast rotator." With the size of the Death Star firmly in hand, Minton sought to determine how quickly it spun. This means that the core of the moon is denser than iron, though less than uranium. With rebels and storm troopers moving at relatively normal speeds, he assumed gravity pulled down on them about the same as it did on Earth and used this to determine the moon is only slightly more massive than Mars, though it boasts a smaller diameter. Using the diameter of Endor found on Wookieepedia (3,000 miles, or 4,900 kilometers), Minton calculated how large the destructive satellite was and how far it orbited from the moon. ![]() Responding to a call by Tech Insider, Minton used the hologram shown in the briefing scene of the movie to estimate the relative sizes of the moon and the Death Star. But like most science fiction movies, details about the moon vary from scene to scene, making details difficult to nail down. The Endor holocaust first exploded on the "Star Wars" fan site in 1997, when astrophysicist Curtis Saxton argued that both Endor and the Ewoks were doomed.
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