Timeline for How did no other engineer see the design flaw of the Death Star?
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| Aug 30, 2019 at 20:44 | history | edited | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2017 at 20:32 | comment | added | Wildcard | @Thunderforge, in the public environment of the "workplace hallway"? You really think that officer is going to make it clear to one and all within earshot that Tarkin knew about the weakness already? Not a chance (or he would inexplicably be passed over for promotion for a long time). You, my friend, should spend some time reading Workplace SE. ;) | |
| May 1, 2017 at 4:53 | comment | added | Thunderforge | The officer telling Tarkin that they've analyzed their attack plan and discovered a danger suggests that command did not know about the weakness before the attack. Otherwise, the conversation would have been "the Rebels are trying to exploit that weakness we brought up". | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | Jerry Coffin | @LorenzoDonati: Perhaps not--but they should have assumed the rebellion would be halfway sensible, and had the computer launch the missile directly instead of having it show a display for a human to pull the trigger. For a human, you have to figure a delay of ~100 ms, and variation of tens of milliseconds (even at best); for a computer, an accuracy of 1 microsecond is trivial (and yes, of course I realize this wouldn't fit the plot at all). | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike | I would add that probably they ruled out a Kamikaze-like attack by small fighters as a real menace. After all Luke could hit the target only by using the Force. Analysis could have determined that that exhaust opening was too difficult to be hit even by a rebel top-gun. And Jedi's pilots were probably thought to be all dead by then! | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 21:39 | history | edited | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2017 at 21:32 | history | answered | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |