Astrophysicist Andy Howell looks at the original Star Wars and how it has inspired real science and technology, along with what might actually be scientifically possible a long time ago in a galaxy fa
When Vader says, “The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force” he could mean how a force wielding sith lord can manipulate the entire empire from the shadows
One idea that might produce 3D video is a complex system of lasers firing into the air that produce thousands or hundreds of thousands of dots of plasma.
Generally speaking, I use time rather than distance to describe going to work, since distance is immaterial to how long it actually takes. I guess Han doesn't hit much traffic on the Kessel run?
Just a reminder. The Death Star is powered by Kiber cristals. Whi h are the same cristals that power lightsabers. The only difference is that a lightsaber needs a 1 inch cristal while the Death Star uses cristals that put together form a gigantic one. Meters and meters long.
Maybe thats why those scientist don't melt down on the Death Star. Because lightsabers dont realy produce heat
Awesome! I would love to see you cover Interstellar since it's depiction of black holes broke ground not only in filmmaking but scientific simulation as well. Cheers!
3:40 The comment on Moore's Law is kind of misleading. Moores law said that the amount of transistors that could be fit on a dense microcontroller would double each two years. This more or less correlates to processing power, but it's not exactly the same. And recently Moores law has kind of stopped being true. We've gotten about as small as transistors can get (only a few hundred atoms wide) and the power consumption means you really can't afford to get things closer together. There are workarounds, changing the architecture of the transistors, etc, but Moore's law doesn't just march on indefinitely.
7:25 Here's how I always thought about it (prior to Solo) - the kessel run is 12 parsecs (distance) through some very difficult to navigate space (asteroid belts, star clusters, dust clouds what have you.. ), and as we know, travelling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, so the Kessel run requires much stopping, re-jigging of navigation systems and zig-zagging across space. The 12 parsecs is the amount of 'real' space (i.e. not including hyperspace jumps) that you would have to slog through in order to avoid flying right through a star or bouncing too close to a supernova etc... What Han did was chart a new previously unknown path through this space that was nearer to a straight line, allowing him to make the run in less distance than 12 parsecs, therefore making him quicker than anyone else. Simple.
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Maybe thats why those scientist don't melt down on the Death Star. Because lightsabers dont realy produce heat