Episode One: Going through the planet core would screw the core up, right?

[VirgilCaine]

My brother and I were talking about the flaws of the new SW movies last night when it occurred to us that going through the core of Naboo might have upset it a tiny, wee bit.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Its Star Wars.

Very few things make scientific sense.

Its not a flaw anymore than the fact that lightsabers just happen to stop at a certain length.

 

[mojo1701]

Its not a flaw anymore than the fact that lightsabers just happen to stop at a certain length.

Randal: Ah, the whole movie's flawed. Like the lightsaber. How does it know to go only yea-high?"
Dante: Uh, the Force?
Randal: Man, that's your answer for everything.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Randal: Ah, the whole movie's flawed. Like the lightsaber. How does it know to go only yea-high?"
Dante: Uh, the Force?
Randal: Man, that's your answer for everything.

Exactly.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

What the gungans call the "planet core" doesn't necessarily have to technically be the planet core.

 

[Crothian]

And I'm not sure how a liquid water core would effect planatry physics so wh's to say what would happen?

 

[WayneLigon]

Mee-sa thinkin' Gungans' advice not to be taken when you is talkin' planetary physics

You've already accepted starfighters that bank and turn like planes in space. It's just a short step to accepting everything else

 

[trancejeremy]

I've actually only been able to watch Ep 1 with "mute" on, because of Jar Jar.

I guess it's possible to have a "water" core of a planet. If the planet was dead geologically and had some hollow spots in the center, that could get filled with water.

So it probably wouldn't matter one way or the other if someone went through it.


I have no idea how lightsabers supposedly work, but I would think the blade is not just "light". I would guess it's some sort of superheated plasma contained in a magnetic field. (Sorta like a neon tube without the tube)

 

[Angcuru]

Scientific sense it certainly does not make.

But it is theoretically possible to have a light/plasma/energy blade stop at a certain length using an internal containment field/parabola effect. Maybe.

But once I saw that every planet has a single climate, I went for the "Screw it, it's there to entertain us, not for speculation" point of view.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Scientific sense it certainly does not make.

But it is theoretically possible to have a light/plasma/energy blade stop at a certain length using an internal containment field/parabola effect. Maybe.

But once I saw that every planet has a single climate, I went for the "Screw it, it's there to entertain us, not for speculation" point of view.

Sometimes you have to take what you can get when you want a useless planet to hide on. Duh.

And the lightsaber isn't made of light, duh.