| Tango01 | 20 Jan 2021 10:15 p.m. PST |
"Here are some objects which may or may not be moons, shown to scale. Enjoy!…"
From here
supernovacondensate.net
Amicalement
Armand
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| Stryderg | 21 Jan 2021 6:20 a.m. PST |
Now that is cool. Not the fact that the Death Star is smaller than I imagined (especially since Han thought it was a moon), but the designs drawn by the paths of the planets. |
| newarch | 21 Jan 2021 11:22 a.m. PST |
Mimas really is the original Death Star. Check out that super laser dish! |
| Tango01 | 21 Jan 2021 12:12 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Augustus | 21 Jan 2021 12:54 p.m. PST |
This needs a scale reference. Something doesn't seem right. |
ScottWashburn  | 21 Jan 2021 1:51 p.m. PST |
If it was that small, why didn't Starkiller Base have a gravity less than Earth's Moon? |
| Last Hussar | 21 Jan 2021 5:58 p.m. PST |
"the Death Star is smaller than I imagined"
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| Ghostrunner | 21 Jan 2021 7:20 p.m. PST |
If it was that small, why didn't Starkiller Base have a gravity less than Earth's Moon? Probably the same reason that once it absorbed the mass of an entire star to charge its weapon, the surface gravity didn't go up by a factor of 1000 and crush everyone on it. |
| Mark Plant | 22 Jan 2021 2:12 p.m. PST |
Endor has earth-like gravity. It has to be earth-sized. |
| Chimpy | 24 Jan 2021 2:35 a.m. PST |
It's Star Wars. It doesn't have to make sense. Fricken Light Sabers – nuff said? Or how long does it take a star fighter to travel down a trench on a 200km diameter death star/moon? The battle should have been over in seconds rather than 20(?) minutes or so. |
| zircher | 24 Jan 2021 2:33 p.m. PST |
"Endor has earth-like gravity. It has to be earth-sized." Well, it has to have Earth's mass. It might have an exceptionally dense core and thus a small size but still the same pull at the surface. |
| Mark Plant | 26 Jan 2021 2:07 p.m. PST |
The earth's core is iron, which is why it is much denser than most other planets. Even if you made Endor made of solid gold, you still wouldn't get enough gravity at that size. People eye planet by radius. But volume, hence gravity, is radius cubed. Earthlike gravity with a solid gold core would be 75% earth's radius. (I make no apologies for being a Maths teacher.) And I know it is Star Wars, but there is no reason to make it that small. Just make it bigger. |
| Ghostrunner | 26 Jan 2021 4:42 p.m. PST |
And I know it is Star Wars, but there is no reason to make it that small. Just make it bigger. And you can probably imagine that the next Star Wars movie will feature a Death Star twice the size of Jupiter that can release an anti-matter quasi-quark beam that will destroy the entire space time continuum from the time of firing to a retroactive point approximately 13 years in the past. (Which might actually be a good thing if it wipes out Episodes 7-9 when they fire it the first time.) |
