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| Dec 29, 2017 at 5:48 | comment | added | Chris Strickland | 3/2) Also, I'm estimating the mass of the Supremacy at 1.6e14 kg, which would give it a gravitation about 14 millionths of Earth's. I'm not sure if that's large enough to pull a ship out of hyperspace, but I bet not. The Supremacy is about 3000x larger than Raddus. | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 5:44 | comment | added | Chris Strickland | 2/2) That's very fast, but not any appreciable fraction of c, and what we see instead is a very localized straight-line damage, not an engulfing blast. I am going to guess that what we're seeing is a hyperspace wake effect, in which portions of the Supremacy are stripped away into hyperspace along with Raddus. This theory also allows for Holdo and the Raddus to have survived. | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 5:41 | comment | added | Chris Strickland | 1/2) Actually, the events of the movie aren't consistent with a relativistic event. Use this calculator [stardestroyer.net/Resources/Calculators/NuclearExplosions.html] to estimate the yield needed to engulf Snoke's ship (~40gtns), then use this calculator [unitconversion.org/energy/joules-to-gigatons-conversion.html] to convert to joules (1.7e20), and this calculator [hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Relativ/releng.html] to determine the speed needed for the Raddus (~6e10 kg) to generate that force (.00025c or 270000 kph). | |
| Dec 22, 2017 at 18:36 | comment | added | vsz | All those who think this answer is unrealistic, please read this: what-if.xkcd.com/1 | |
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 18:08 | history | answered | Jason Barker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |