First Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas Special
This is a reupload of Episode 46 into one continuous podcast. Originally it was broken into 4 parts.
Vehicles of Star WarsTie Fighters
Hovercraft and levitationPower: Fission batteries? A AA battery weighs around 23g. Convert it all to energy e=mc^2 and you get 2 quintillion Joules of power. 2,067,136,911,094,680,572 Joules to be precise.16 Teslas to levitate a frog. This consumed 4MW of energy according to the paper. A “common frog” weighs 22.7g. Compact car weighs about 1200kg. So that is 211,453 and some change MW or Joules per second. 8.4million Teslas.
Weapons of Star WarsDeath StarCost of Steel alone would be $852 quadrillion which is 13,000 times the worlds GDP.How much steel required to make it? It is 160km in diameter and they modeled the Death Star to have a density similar to a modern warship. Which gives us 1.08×1015 tonnes of steel. World wide production of steel is 1.3 billion tonnes a year which will take over 800K years to make enough steel.Thats no moon. Speaking of the size. Earths moon is 3,474km. Smallest moon in our solar system is Methone which orbits Saturn with a diameter of ~3km.How much energy would be required to blow up a Planet? Earth would require 2.24 × 10^32 Joules to blow apart the gravitational binding energy of the Earth if you consider it a uniform sphere. In 1 second the Sun generates 3.8 x 10^26 Joules. Which means in 589,473 seconds or about 6.8 days worth of energy. Gives a reason behind Star Killer Base.Star Killer BaseIts not as silly as people make it out to be in comparison to a Death Star.Energy gathered from a Sun? How would that work?Light SabersElegant weapon for a more civilized age. Lots of mystical lore surrounding this weapon.Force aligned crystals are necessary for their construction.How would the blade be created? Plasma?
BlastersThey are not laser weapons!Gas cartridge and a power cell.Gas can be mostly anything but typically is Tibanna - a naturally gas found on Bespin home of cloud city.Light Speed TravelFaster then light travel in Star Wars is accomplished by transporting the vessel to near light speed and then jumping to a "Hyper Space" dimension where faster then light travel is possible.Possible if this "Hyper Space" is worm hole tunneling. ProstheticsMechanics exist to make them work.General Grievous.The "Force"The force is actually the main character of SW. That’s why prequels suck.Fundamental problem with midichlorians.
Force as consciousness.Is the "Force" possibility the control over dark matter/energy?
R.F.O.What is your favorite Star Wars Character?Organic?Robot?Favorite sound effect?The prequelsWhy do some Jedi disappear after dying and others don’t?What are we excited or concerned about most in the new Rogue One movie?