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MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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- MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Well, yeah, but we've also seen the ones that look like a hamburger patty fly through the atmosphere (and, in fact, outmaneouver the winged ones). Clearly that's not what they're for.
  
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  - cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ah yeah. Dang. Well there probably a good technical reason behind it. I’m no starship engineer in the Star Wars universe.
    
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    remus989@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I think the usual in universe reasoning is heat dissipation.
    
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    Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The hamburger was originally a cargo ship, the one we see is special in that it has a bunch of very expensive, very powerful engines added.
    
    It’s no wonder that a street racer can outpace army jeeps. Also, they couldn’t outpace TIE fighters in Ep.IV, which are known for being very fast for a coffee table.
    
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dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
They are clearly not wings meant to create aerodinamic lift.

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- MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Well, no, they're meant to make the pew-pew laser fights look like a film about airplane dogfights. So yeah, way overthinking it.
  
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finley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You’re here discussing it too, man

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- MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Oh, yeah, no, but that's because I'm a nerd.
  
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