Timeline for Is there an in-canon explanation for how "manual" hyperspace exits are possible?
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| Jan 18, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @enderland You still didn't get it. Distance was known. Time required to reach can easily be calculated. You just need to pull the trigger during last 2 seconds based on gut feeling. Now, where's the problem? Don't look at the speed. | |
| Jan 18, 2016 at 18:03 | comment | added | enderland | Try hitting a baseball traveling at lightspeed. Quora suggests a ship traveling at lightspeed is traveling at 6 quintillion meters/hour. This means... that the ship is traveling at 10^18/60/60/1000 km/second (277,777,777,778 km/second). I think it's pretty clear that there is no chance he can time an exit of maybe 1000km or less correctly. Even if the quora answer is off by many orders of magnitude it's still impossibly precise for Han to trigger. | |
| Jan 18, 2016 at 17:56 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @enderland In case of lever, you need to pull it exactly when ship crosses the shield (so reaction time is unachievable). But, in case of computer aided control, you'll talk in last seconds thing. Although this will be difficult, it won't be impossible. You can see such reactions in baseball or cricket. Nobody sees the coming ball during the last seconds (due to limitation of eye coverage area), but they hit it anyway. | |
| Jan 18, 2016 at 17:49 | comment | added | enderland |
The pulling of control signalled the computer to start the procedure of exiting hyperspace <-- I fail to see how that's any different. Whether you press a button or pull a lever, it's nearly the same reaction time needed..
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| Jan 18, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @enderland The cars you are talking about don't have Fly by Wire technology. Read the answer again. He never needed to pull the controls after crossing the shield. | |
| Jan 18, 2016 at 1:51 | comment | added | enderland | This would be like me telling you "see that 0.1mm long wide spot on the road up there? make sure to shift exactly as your front tire crosses that spot as you travel at 70mph" -- I don't care how good of a car driver you are, you will never consistently accomplish this. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 2:34 | history | edited | Doctor Doom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2015 at 15:59 | history | answered | Doctor Doom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |