Damn this makes the OSHA holes even more ridiculous
Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 years ago
The first one.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 years ago
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Bingo. See also, the guys in the laser shaft for the main cannon. The beam fires along / past them. Not from below.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Isn’t the emperor’s tower and all the surface guns oriented toward the second option?
Seems like it’s a little of both
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
That’s only at the top of the death star.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Any chance you know the canon explanation of how they counteract the gravity generated by the Deathstar’s mass?
thejml@lemm.ee 2 years ago
How much gravity would the Deathstar’s mass provide? I feel like it would be very small considering it has no real massive central solid or liquid core.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It’s the size of a moon and made from metal: It’s definitely generating some gravity (even a small amount of mass generates gravity) but I guess whatever tech they use to generate gravity overcomes it.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 years ago
It’s the size of a very, very small moon, and mostly hollow.
butter@midwest.social 2 years ago
It wouldn’t need to generate gravity.
Acceleration “down” would be enough.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I ran the numbers, and it says about 0.00473m^2^2
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 2 years ago
The gravity is negligible. The official sizes of the Death Stars have been 120 - 900 km in diameter according to rebel scale. For comparison Earths moon is ≈35000 km in diameter and it’s gravity is 1/6 of earth’s. On top of that, the Death Stars are mostly hallow, being a metal framework, instead of solid rock.
nadiaraven@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Our Death Star, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy empire come, thy will be done, On Alderaan as it is in heaven, Give us this day our daily rations, And forgive us our rebellion, As we forgive those who rebel against us, And lead us not to the light side, But deliver us from the Jedi, For thine is the empire, and the unlimited power, and the dark side forever, Amen
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
If Lemmy had gold, I’d give it to you.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Off the a factor of 10. The Moon has a diameter of almost 3500 km (Earth’s circumference is about 40,000 km, so your diameter would make the Moon larger than Earth).
However, the Death Star being hollow still means you’re probably right about gravity being negligible.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 2 years ago
Whoops. Good catch! so about 4-30 times the size of the Death Star. That would mean the gravity of the Death Star is at most 1/24th that of earth’s if it were solid rock, and my math is correct. That’s at the surface, though. As you go inside, gravity will decrease until you reach the center where there will be no gravity at all because all the mass of the space station is pulling you away from the center equally. (assuming a uniform mass distribution).
g ≈ M/r^2
V ≈ r^3.
uniform density: ρ for simplicity’s sake
M = ρV
—> g ≈ ρr where r is the distance from the center of the death star, but no further than the surface
finley@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It doesn’t create enough gravity because it isn’t massive enough to create gravity. They use gravity deck plating.
MudMan@fedia.io 2 years ago
Even if it was massive enough, if they can keep people sticking to the ground in a tiny ship they can surely counteract the gravity of a space station.
Also, most of their spaceships have wings. We're thinking about this way too hard.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
They don’t all have wings. Only the X-Wing and Imperial transport ships have actual wings, and we’ve seen them fly through atmospheres.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 years ago
They are clearly not wings meant to create aerodinamic lift.
finley@lemm.ee 2 years ago
You’re here discussing it too, man
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 years ago
Technically everything with mass creates its own gravitational field; most things just aren’t massive enough for it to be detectable.
Ageroth@reddthat.com 2 years ago
One of my favorite science facts: Because of how the strength of gravity diminishes as you get further away and stronger as you get closer, when you approach to within arms length of another person (approx 1m) the gravitational attraction between the two masses of your bodies can exceed the gravitational attraction between your body and the sun at any given time.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 years ago
“Gravity deck plating”… okay that makes sense. So basically each floor has its own gravity generation to orient you to it. They’re all placed “bottom to top” to work like a building but it’d be possible to put one in at a 90-degree angle for say maintenance work.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
There are crew walkways (I think they even have handguards!) along the beam path of the superlaser, so there are definitely at least a few small decks at different angles.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Like in the Falcon
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Artificial gravity and inertial compensators are pervasive (if relatively handwaved/unexplained) in the SW universe
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Hoverpads have fully replaced wheels and datapads have fully replaced paper, even in the poorest most remote communities.