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On the one hand, this question kind of answers itself. They just are! And yet, the Star Destroyer appears to be flying, which adds a level of complication and danger to the process. On today’s episode, I’m wrapping up my conversation with Georgetown University physics professor Patrick Johnson (author of The Physics of Star Wars) by exploring that scene, which also leads us to discussing Leia’s “Mary Poppins” scene from The Last Jedi, the electrocution scene from Jurassic Park, and how the human brain acts as a limiter on what our bodies can do in real life. Punch it!
BTW, previously I talked with Johnson about lightsabers, sound in space, and the Kessel Run in episode 1,233, and whether outer space in Star Wars is different from outer space in real life in episode 1,577.
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The Star Destroyer is not in outer space. Is placed in the Skies above Exegol, and most of the time is quiet, suspended in the air. I see no problem.
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Hi Andres – thanks for the comment! You are correct, of course – though at the time this podcast was recorded (about a month and a half before the release of TROS), it wasn’t clear whether the ship was in space or in atmosphere. Hope you enjoyed the episode! –Allen
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No problem other than the fact that all the Star Destroyer had to do to save the entire fleet from destruction was to slightly tilt itself so everybody on the surface of the Star Destroyer was thrown off the surface.
Such a crap movie for seemingly billions of reasons, that scene being one of them.
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I keep feeling like there’s something I missed that might have explained that, how they never figured to tilt the ship. I’ll be checking the movie out again soon for the “Hope” series on the show, maybe I’ll see it then… –Allen