In the spanish translation they talk about "laser sabres" maybe is a mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norfy
Anyway it has no sense.
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In the spanish translation they talk about "laser sabres" maybe is a mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norfy
Anyway it has no sense.
Just consider it another "other physics" application. It's not the fault from the logic point. Fault is the application of considired-to-be phenomena. Why don't they shoot Jedi using 3 fires shot at the same time, not lying on the same line? If Jedi can predict where he would be shot, he can block only shots lying on one line...
If there is such thing as that pseudo-laser weapons, blocking and destroying everything, why don't they use advantages of it?
And definately they should've developed the physics of the Force and use it much more effective way in devices then human can.
So they were translated in Romanian. But they are just "light sabers". Of course a LASER ray is a ray of light, they are all electomagnetic waves. Well, of all things I would like to have a light saber... :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Luz
Worm holes. You can see a lot of them in Star Trek.Quote:
If the starship has a device able to create a tunnel between sheets you might make the starship to travel from one sheet to another in a femtosecond, however the light might take many years to travel until destination.
Do not forget, starting Sunday 26, in a three episodes series, Discovery Channel presents The Science of Star Wars.
Did you see Episode III? That's how most of the Jedi were killed, through a combination of surprise and an overwhelming concentration of close range laser fire upon them.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoboTact
This method would require only one shot, making Jedi skills utterly useless, not "overwhelming concentration of close range light fire".Quote:
Originally Posted by NatThoelecke
light sabers or laser sabers you would not see them. Can you see the light beam of a lantern? No, you can't. You can only see the diffused light beam when it finds the dust of the air. The same happens for light sabers.Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
About worm holes, I never liked very much the Star Trek way of traveling. I like more the way that Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda series does. And much better the way in Dune series.
I can't see Discovery Channel, I hope you can tell us abut the science of star wars. ;)
"Light sabers" term doesn't describe its nature, so there is no contradiction in it. Laser sabres - yes, incorrect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Luz
And what is travelling in Dune? I haven't grasped it so far. There is something about just travelling faster-then-light and need in prediction to avoid collision (questionable need).Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Luz
I've seen the 3 hours documentary about the Science of Star Wars. Actually it was about Star Wars-like tech devices, weapons, etc. that we have no on Earth. The leitmotif that George Lucas was focused on was "thinking outside the box". He said that he wanted to expand our vision, to make let the imagination roam, not to remain inside the box and say that you can't do this or that. He seemed to encourage young people to follow their imagination, because they are not yet compeled to the "box" yet, they don't know that "you can't do that".Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Luz
It's been some years since I read the last book from the Dune series, and all I can remember about their travelling ways is that they needed some hard computation/predictions about the jumps in some sort of hyperspace (hope I'm not mistaking) to avoid collisions with celestial bodies. Something similar is done in SW. In Episode 4, running from the empire Han says:Quote:
About worm holes, I never liked very much the Star Trek way of traveling. I like more the way that Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda series does. And much better the way in Dune series.
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HAN: Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy!
Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or
bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick,
wouldn't it?
The travel is carried out by the so called "spacing gild" they use the spice gas wich gives them special mental powers in order to find the best path. But the travel itself is done with the aid of the so called "Holtzmann generators" wich uses a strange effect of space that can make an object to exists in two points at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
Combining they both you have the space jumps. You can travel without moving.
What imagination!
I can't see how to combine these. What 'same time'? Traveller multiplies? Could you point where is it described?Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Luz
Except the Jedi don't have to remain stationary either, so they can block two of the shots and step out of the way of the third.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoboTact
...using a worm hole to travel faster than light :DQuote:
Except the Jedi don't have to remain stationary either, so they can block two of the shots and step out of the way of the third.
:lol: haha :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Norfy
No, just use their "superior" reflexes.
I can't remember. Many time has passed since I read the last dune novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoboTact
He meant you got the idea wrong. They are not avoid being shot by reflexes, but by reliable intuitive prediction of nearest future. Generally they move just like anybody else (except when they move themselves using Force, but it either just motion). 3 shots - at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by NatThoelecke
Just another discrepacy in the story: why didn't they use moving using Force when it was obviously advantageously (even vitally important)? There is a plenty of such situations...