Timeline for How did the Death Star move?
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| Jul 25, 2017 at 16:03 | comment | added | DCOPTimDowd | What are the asterisks next to the computer cores for? | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 16:16 | comment | added | Holger | @n611x007: the picture is not from the 70s movie but from a 1991 book… | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | user35723 | SSD was 7km long from end to end in XWing Alliance. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 17:45 | comment | added | Kevin Laity | I imagine that the ion thrusters would be rarely used.. and only to make corrections to the Death Star's orbit around a sun or planet. Setting up those orbits would be a matter of calculation and timing of hyperdrive trips. | |
| Jul 7, 2012 at 8:55 | comment | added | n611x007 | It seems neither Lucas nor the Emperor had any vague idea what to actually do with this much space available... | |
| Jul 7, 2012 at 8:54 | comment | added | n611x007 | It's really a 70s movie - computers sized half a moon! | |
| Jun 2, 2012 at 21:18 | vote | accept | Gabe Willard | ||
| Jun 2, 2012 at 21:18 | comment | added | Gabe Willard | @KeithHWeston Both answers were good, but yours was the only one to address why the thrusters aren't visible. You get the cigar. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 3:25 | comment | added | DampeS8N | To that end, the 'deep armory and hanger bays' are probably large enough to house the entire galaxy's military arsenal. Especially when you consider it is big enough for at least 1000 super star destroyers, each of which makes the standard victory class star destroyers look like the corvette that Leia was on in the first scene of episode 4. better example | |
| May 30, 2012 at 3:14 | comment | added | K-H-W | @DampeS8N - No argument.... I didn't design it, and I think it's pretty unrealistic, too. But (to play devil/Lucas' advocate) huge, even planet spanning computers were not an uncommon staple of sci-fi for a while; until the transistor and IC took over, the miniaturization process really couldn't happen. Out-of-universe, though, I think for the guys building the specs, "Computer Core" == "What in hell are we gonna call all of this extra space?!? Did Lucas consider how much VOLUME this thing had! GAH!" | |
| May 30, 2012 at 3:10 | comment | added | DampeS8N | @KeithHWeston even assuming a width of 10 feet only, we are still talking 18 cubic miles of computer. (if that takes up 40% of the cross-section) I repeat, that's an awfully big computer. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 3:10 | comment | added | K-H-W | @DampeS8N - Well, those picture refer to the area, not so much the actual computers. But, remember when this was being written computers were still awfully large. Just a few decades back, we had "...computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons" - Popular Mechanics, 1949.. And the computer it was referring to.. was basically a calculator! | |
| May 30, 2012 at 3:05 | comment | added | K-H-W | @GabeWillard - Try 'Death Star' the novel, to start. It talks about a lot of the later days of it's building. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 3:01 | comment | added | DampeS8N | Those are awfully big computers.... | |
| May 30, 2012 at 2:54 | history | edited | K-H-W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 30, 2012 at 2:46 | comment | added | Gabe Willard | Any chance of tracking down the information from the EU? | |
| May 30, 2012 at 2:41 | history | edited | K-H-W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 30, 2012 at 2:33 | history | answered | K-H-W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
