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

[Crothian]

and we don't know for sure that all those planets are only on envirment, we only saw a small portion of them

 

[Angcuru]

Isn't it suspicious how every planet in the galaxy has the exact same atmosphere and gravitational pull?

Maybe I'm just spoiled by Larry Niven's stuff.

 

[BOZ]

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

THANK GOD the creature does not speak at all in Ep 3.

 

[D-rock]

Isn't it suspicious how every planet in the galaxy has the exact same atmosphere and gravitational pull?

Maybe I'm just spoiled by Larry Niven's stuff.

Most planets too far from the norm probably don't get habitated. At least that how I though about it.

 

[D-rock]

At the core of a planet woudn't you be weightless. It seems gravity would equal out pretty well there.

 

[Crothian]

and think of the presssure, that's a lot of water on top of you if you are in the core!!

 

[Turanil]

No, no, physically it makes no sense. If the planet is Earth-like on the surface, it's dense rock at the core, no other way. Look at a watery planet in the solar system: Europa. All its rock is in the core, and the water above it. Law of gravitation puts the heavier elements (metal, silica, etc.) to the center.

On the other hand, Jar-Jar being stupid, he probably doesn't know what he is speaking about when he says they must go through the core. They in fact just travel deep to evade the droid army's sensors and enter the city discreetly.

 

[Umbran]

As a very general rule - Planets are very large things. They tend not to be at all perturbed by very small things (like singleships).

And, as another general rule, avoid saying, "that can't happen". Sci-fi has a long tradition of playing with concepts, and in every age, folks have said, "that can't happen", and later been proven very wrong.

Maybe on Naboo the "land" is really composed of a coral-like material that is overall less dense than water, so that it floats upon the sea.

And getting a lightsaber to be a given length isn't all that outrageous, if you know anything about wave mechanics. It isn't difficult to come up with a superposition of waves that gives you positive intensity within a small region, and basically zero intensity elsewhere. Not that we know the physics of lightsabers, but we already have concepts in current physics that can "no prize" it.

 

[Rel]

Leaving aside for a moment whether the concept of travelling through the "planet core" in a "Bungo" is feasible using typical technology from Star Wars, I don't get how doing so could possibly "screw up the core". Screw it up how? It's not like they tossed a McDonald's bag out the window down there and littered the place up.

If great big sea monsters are doing battle down there, how is one (comparatively) tiny ship going to screw things up?

I just watched Ep 1 over the weekend to refamiliarize my wife with it before she goes to III this week. I had already braced myself for Jar-Jar so the thing that really botherd me was how bad Yoda looked compared to II and III. He looked so rubbery and expressionless in Ep 1. Did they use a puppet instead of CG?

 

[VirgilCaine]

Most planets too far from the norm probably don't get habitated. At least that how I though about it.

Thank you, some sanity on that subject.

and we don't know for sure that all those planets are only on envirment, we only saw a small portion of them

Naboo we have no idea, might have an Earthlike variation. Endor might have some variations, but Tatooine, Hoth, Dagobah, Coruscant (one environment: urban renewal), Yavin IV, all have the same environment. Geonosis or whatever the planet is in Ep. II, who knows.