How Much Power Do You Need To Destroy A Planet?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
- Being a lifelong Star Wars fan this is a question that's pertinent, Star Wars doesn't care about physics but one of the few places we can invoke real science is in figuring out just how much power it takes to obliterate planets.
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+René Larsen "And thus, the empire of Hands ruled over the galaxy; using Scott Manley's Planet Busting Equation, they were truly unstoppable..."
+NickWarlordGR they are indeed handy
+René Larsen The proper response is, "WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THAT!?" And the only answer I can guess is, where you come from, asteroids don't crash into the planet very often anymore.
Meanwhile humanity has been using relatively modest but no-less-effective gravity tugs to throw big rocks at your glass house. Think fast!
Want me to lend you a hand of dominating the world?
+René Larsen I thought we took care of you hands
They have to destroy the whole planet so Superman can't spin it backwards to reverse time and save everyone. Worked on Krypton.
Even planets aren't immune to the chunky salsa rule.
wasn't on krypton, was on earth, but come to think of it, if he could go back in time and do it that would work. But, Krypton's red sun would either weaken him so he couldn't, or as it did the 3 krypton criminals (I'm confused, they said molecule chamber one time and red krypton's sun the next, which???)
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All you need to destroy a planet is drop a Nokia 3110 from 4 feet
I meant 3310
To atomize it, maybe six feet
+BamhamYT If you drop it from orbit, the universe implodes.
drop an Iphone if you want to save a planet.
Nono, 1 millimetre is for neutron stars, it is 1 Atom distance for the earth
GOOD WORK man!!!!!
Hey
Geekdom101 lmao geekdom😂
He should ask Beerus Frieza and kid Buu how
GEEKDOME?
WRONG!
In reality all you need is just enough juice in your phone battery to call Danny2462 :D
+Slithereenn Very True. Very True.
+loperspest The Force is puny compaired to the power containd in the thing known as danny
+Callum Steel Danny shits the force out every night after dinner
+Callum Steel wait... is danny jar jar binks?
+Slithereenn Danny is my hero
simple answer
two AA batteries
I think you just need one, AA batteries are op.
+NonsensicalSpudz Whew, I thought you were going to say 42.
Bat battery's and space duct tape
+KerbaCell Battery Industries Sure .. if you want to fix a planet.. To destroy planet; Drop a Nokia 3310 from high orbit
+NonsensicalSpudz Sure, if it's moving at relativistic speeds.
Congrats on the vrial vid scott, been a long time viewer, happy to see this video keep popping up on every site I visit.
_"Hight-tech fantasy"_ YES! Someone that understands me!
Terry Pratchett came up with the term: "science fantasy"
It fits the bill.
edit: It seems that the term may pre-date Pratchett.
+RyanRyzzo RIP
+RyanRyzzo fiction doesnt have to be realistic. so science fiction works for sw.
+Samasoku Not logical but realistic. It doesnt have to be realistic.
MysticHero
true that
+Samasoku That's not what fiction means and that's not how science fiction is defined. Star Wars is _not_ science fiction, it's fantasy, sorry.
I'm amused when sci-fi movies screw up scale. Like when the writers think they're exaggerating when saying something is billions of miles away when the story implies it's many light years away--ie hundreds or 1000s of trillion miles away.
A billion miles won't even get you much past Saturn.
Ikr?
+DrRawley I'm amused when people expect realism and accuracy from movies designed to entertain and not teach.
Raging Gamer
Thats why I'm just amused and not enraged. ;)
+DrRawley I once read a book whereupon the crew of a ship were talking about how they were 'many thousands of miles from earth.'
Ever heard of geostationary orbit dude?
+Raging Gamer
no thats just a lazy writer or whom ever it is. it can't take any longer to look up then for me. or pre internet you just write a question mark note and call experts before shooting the film
6:10
Star Trek DS9's episode "The Die Is Cast": a fleet of cardassians and romulans melts the crust of a planet in about 10 seconds of sustained weapons fire.
"lol"
-Frieza
The answer is: More than half the starfleet. =P
+Mariah Sinclair (Mariahsyn) With more firepower than I've ever---
+admthrawnuru .....His eyes man they scare me.
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This comment deserves way more likes than it has
+Mariah Sinclair (Mariahsyn) so... a borg cube?
Starkiller base was mobile. Don't ask how, it just is.
Could you imagine the power required for that? It's a whole bloody planet! XD
Could you imagine the power required for that? It's a whole bloody planet! XD
shhh, the force !
+Beltramini Basile The force is more powerful than the death star anyways!
i always wondered how the Death Star moved, since it has no obvious thrusters. Now i'm wondering how Starkiller Base moves.
will it never end?
I just love this kind of stuff I could just watch it all day! Great job on the video man
0:51 "spherical horse in vacuum meme"
I could destroy the earth by just flicking a booger.
no you can, you're not the real god!
+God But can you create a stone so heavy you can't lift it? Checkmate.
Please do it
Do it, this place is a shithole
I can destroy it with out even destroying it.
Love the science behind these videos Scott, truly engaging. However, going off of expanded universe lore (I know it's not cannon any more, but it's the best we've got for this) Hyperdrive engines - for whatever reason - barely sip fuel while it is the sublight drives that consume the majority. This was mentioned in a book in the X-wing: Rogue Squadron series, forgot which one.
Sidenote: can we imagine how awesome an X-Wing: Rogue Squadron or TIE Fighter game movie/tv series would be? Top Gun in space with star wars fighters? friggin sold
+Kevin Despot You know that there's a Rogue Squadron movie planned for Christmas 2016?
+Scott Manley Rogue One is not about Rogue squadron.
+Kevin Despot The Expended Universe is still canon considering technical data ^^
+Kevin Despot Don't really have to imagine that too much...it was called "Space: Above and Beyond" and had an aborted series run on Fox back in the early to mid 90s.
Given that even the Death Star was capable of pretty extensive interstellar travel with just onboard reactors, flying a planet around juiced up on the power of a star really doesn't stretch the Star Wars envelope of believability too much.
Thank you Scott Manly for this quality video citing a scientific paper on the physics of the Death Star.
I, a reserved person, cracked up at your (an other's?) graph of the power of the Death Star vs "The power of The Force".
You provide a unique and necessary service to mankind with this mixture of gaming, culture, and science. Thank you!
+Luke Creamer I made this comment after cracking up at just 2:36. By 3:47 I must add that your devotion to realism in your "back of the envelope" calculation is impressive and very much appreciated.
By 4:17 you simply go above and beyond. This video becomes not simply entertainment, but quality advice to any real life military planners who are concerned (as they may reasonably be!) about stealthy (not broadcasting radio waves) aliens who have built a death star in the range of 70.25 light years from us (where they would just now be seeing the EMPs from our trinity tests).
Bravo!
Okay the idea of a star going from blue through red to black using a superweapon is actually really cool and would look amazing in a movie. It needs to happen in a Star Wars movie.
I like your idea of the star slowly shifting through the spectrum and eventually turning black to indicate how much time they have left. I think it would've done a lot better than the arbitrary 15 minutes they said they had.
Scott the reason death stars are needed is because planetary shields exist.\
Other wise a single star destroyer would wipe the planet of its surface in an hour.
well, last movie prowen that planetary shields doesn't matter anymore since you can simply bypas them, I don't know why they even bother to turn them off.
+randomnickify Good catch. Even if such a maneuver were crazy enough that no one would want to try it to invade, you could still equip a ship with a warhead and do the same thing.
randomnickify It's too dangerous and is suicidal, han solo did it by being exceptially lucky and having the force guide him.
+TheDAWinz true, still you can just turn bunch of hyperspace capable ships into automated heavy nuclear varheads and fling them into planet, statistcally some of them would survive and explode on the other side of shield basically making shields irrelevant.
randomnickify Hyperspace ignores the planet, that's why exiting under the shield was dangerous,
+Scott Manley Awesome video Scott, I look forward to your next Serious Business video in KSP!
Scott, What would be the recoil forces from a weapon that could accelerate enough photons, protons or neutrons to create the death rays?
I'm pretty sure Starkiller can move. Otherwise where would they get the energy to continuously fire?
Matthew Chenault
Pretty sure they installed some sort of hyperdrive or warp drive on the planet. They did that with the Death Star.
Matthew Chenault
Not really.
Matthew Chenault
Think about it: you're the empire and you created a giant space station the size of a small moon with a hyperdrive and the capacity to destroy planets. Doesn't make much real fiscal sense or realistic sense, does it?
+Matthew Chenault You mean a massive flaw like an open exhaust port that allows a one-pilot craft to destroy a moon-sized space station in one shot?
Massive flaws are sort of a Star Wars hallmark.
Matthew Chenault
lol the second death star had a massive hole in it. At least Starkiller would've survived if it hadn't been for on-board saboteurs.
Thanks for the information. I was planning on building a second Starkiller base with my friends to destroy the New Republic.
Bad planning!?
Anybody remember a certain exhaust-port...
Always enjoy the physics videos. And I actually understood most of it.
*Tells a spoiler* "There might be some spoilers here" :D
Million trillion trillion joules. Sounds like me when i was five, arguing with my friends about who can name the bigger number.
I love that you used Universe sandbox for this :)
This channel never ceases to amaze me.
So the Krogan Super weapon, using Asteroids as Weapons is more effective than the Empire Deathstar thingies? Damn, those krogans..
kinda makes you wonder why they didn't just make a big space gun that fires moon sized rocks into planets ;p
+Toryu Naminosaki I vote to call it a Matter-ing ram!
+Toryu Naminosaki hell, how about asteroid sized blocks? Make the firing mechanism cheaper so you can build more and thus more people will die. Everybody wins!!!
If you are with the First Order of course...
+Toryu Naminosaki
They actually did....sort of.In the Expanded Universe,the Empire built a massive gun called the "Galaxy gun'' designed to destroy planets.
+Toryu Naminosaki Because (at least in 1977) that would have been far outside the visual effects budget to pull off.
+K1productions Shoot a rock through a fancy looking tube and you're golden.
That does sound like an incredibly awesome visual effect.
So training in ten times Earth's gravity gives one more power than star? DBZ just got a whole lot stupider.
no Stfu
ismael perdomo Why?
Son of Tiamat not true
ismael perdomo What's not true?
+Son of Tiamat it's a cartoon no fuking shit but it's not stupid it's one of the best anime out there
The Kerbals call Joules "Jools".
how to destroy a planet.
1. set a Nokia 3310
2. throw it at a planet
3. wait centuries for the Nokia to arrive at its destination
4. watch the planet explode
5. ???
6. profit
7. too many overused memes
8. repeat
get*
+XWereWolfX56 What is it about the Nokia 3310
+Declan Newton it's the indestructible meme phone.
+XWereWolfX56 The ability to protect something with the Plot is nothing compared to the power of of a meme.
yo this video is fucking amazing. Especially how you have such a good suggestion for the script writers with the x fighter/star color changing mechanic. True genius.
„Fly safe“ after elaborating every kind of destructive force possible 🤣🤣🤣 - but the last seconds stoped me laughing within no time, because oft this being such a real threat these weeks 😳😳😳! Well done anyway, as always 👍!
Scott, sorry for me being... ignorant to physics, but doesnt escape velocity vary based on different variables ex: air pressure, gas, density of object, etc?
+- TheNinthMillimeter - The escape velocity only depends on the mass of the planet you're escaping from. However maybe you're thinking about atmosphere escaping a planet, where you can calculate that rate depending on the gas, pressure temperature etc etc.
what the hell scott ive not seen the new star wars yet and your telling me about super death star solar system killers. BAD SCOTT, VERY BAD SCOTT.
+Enthusiastic Amateur should have probably listened to the spoiler warning then.....
+Enthusiastic Amateur He did mention that he would be discussing spoilers.....
+Enthusiastic Amateur I agree. BAD SCOTT. There was no spoiler warning.
At about 0:37 I believe.
He did say minor spoilers
+Scott Manley Next video suggestion: Firing off the mass of your star. How to become a rogue planet? Will you cause the star to go red giant and expand into the goldilocks zone? Will it go nova once you've pulled off all the lighter matter?
Hi Scott! Are you going to do a Beginner´s Guide to Space Engineers ? It has changed A LOT since your last upload :)
Sooo, you're saying there is a way... :D
Your power level has to be roughly 9001... Duh
+Scott Manley I know this is off topic(by a lot), but I figured I'd say this. Simple planes is now on steam(for OS X and PC, obvously). Maybe you could do another review? A lot has changed since you last showed it. Of course, you don't have to do it, but just pointing it out.
What is the setting to make the trails appear on fragments? I don't have them.
you need a power level over 9000 XD
Beerus - God of Destruction too bad I am stuck at 9000
Creative, now you video trending, congratulation Scott :)
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As it pertains to Starkiller Base: given the Empire could already produce the Death Star, move it around and have it destroy a planet with the level of powers given by your high-end estimate, moving Starkiller Base around would be little to no issue especially with a planetary shield involved. Even the act of consuming a star's matter over time and use it to fuel Starkiller Base's superweapon would be a non-issue with the power of the Death Star also powering Starkiller.
Can’t believe I’m watching this for the first time. 6year old video. Thank you Scott
So what is the power generated when a super nova goes critical?
About 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. (10^44)
+Scott Manley give or take 1 or 2
+Scott Manley That's a lot of joules! Or about 3.33x10^24 tons if you could stuff all that energy into an equivalent mass.
what about a collision between two black holes 100 times the mass of the sun?
+Harrison H It seems to me, that if it holds that nothing can escape the event horizon(s) nothing apparent would happen outside.
Or maybe just redirect asteroids to rebel planets
@Scott Manley , the death star would be propelled in the other direction at an immense velocity if you conserve the momentum of the photons in the laser beam. Is it possible that the weapon doubles as a propulsion mechanism?
Pretty light on physics HA! Oh my gosh that's amazing
Holy Hand Granade > Death Star. *grabs glutamate-free popcorn and diet soda*
*Butters popcorn in brand name butter made from milk from cows given antibacterial medicine and bred in pens close together, where it was untimely slaughtered*
Are you going to kill a bunny with that grenade?
Matthew Feagins Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
+Leopoldo Aranha YOOUU SILLY SOD!
Alderann, blown into pieces- tis' but a flesh wound!
whats the escape velovity of a black hole
+Black Adder Gaming the speed of light.
Scott Manley omg u replied. i shall take this opportunity to tell you that I love your videos. if the escape velocity is the speed of light, then how come light can't escape? i always wondered about the forces involved in restraining light, and it would seem that if light cant escape, nothing can because nothing can travel faster than light. dont know why, but someone smarter than me said so and im noone to question it. anyway, as there is no speed above light, and light is not fast enough to get out, does that mean that a black hole has no( achievable) escape velocity?
Scott Manley im havin a hard time finding ur twitch what is it
*faster then speed of light* (otherwise it would still Be stuck)
+Black Adder Gaming actually nothing can escape a black hole as soon as it gets to the event horizon.
theres no escape velocity because you cant escape it.
light only gets trapped in it because black holes have so much mass that it bends time and space.
nothing but a black hole or as masive as one can trap light , because light has no mass.
Hey Scott,
How about their other screw up?
They watch a solar system get blown up from a whole different solar system. Even if the systems were only a measley light year apart it would still take one whole year for the light of the explosion to reach them right?
Seeing this, I want to know what you think of the Star Generator from Space Quest.
What would it take to convert a planet's worth of mass into some kind of star (which does happen in Universe Sandbox 2 if the density of a planet gets high enough but I'd like you to drop some science behind that).
Yeah, the plot of the new movie is particularly awful. The movie , it's self, is not all that great either. It was episode fucking 4. Come up with a new god damn story. I find myself equally conflicted as I was after episode 1. People so want to love it but it's a turd. I knew what was going to happen at every turn. Also, no space battles. Wtf, over?
In a couple of years, fans will start to admit the disaster.
You are welcome to your opinion. Just don't say us (the people who like VII) are not welcome to our own, different opinions. Thanks.
+Tom Wolfe I liked it (I liked all of the films) but I do agree with you. It had its flaws. Most notably, it focused too much on the glory of something that had come and gone instead of rejoicing in the discovery of the present moment. I think that's actually quite HUGE. That having been said, with the nostalgia out of its system, I think it set up for a very good sequel and I anticipate Episode VIII being a very good movie for exploring these new characters.
Anyway, there were many things to enjoy, I think, and certain moments that were just about perfect. They didn't make the film as a whole perfect, but still highly enjoyable, and I've already watched it multiple times. So long as I'm at peace with the fact that I will never love it quite as much as what George Lucas made with the original saga, I think I'm capable of having fun with this film.
I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I don't mind that some won't like it, because I support having diversity like that in the fanbase. Hopefully, this one won't inspire as many hatred and personal attacks as the last three movies did. It was unfortunate that the internet could do something like that to _Star Wars_ and make its fans feel so uncomfortable and unwelcomed.
+Tom Wolfe Well it didn't have ridiculously bad acting or an annoying kid,no comic relief character like jar jar the comedy came from interactions of normal behaving characters,no pointless CGI that just clutters the scene,no shit-your-pants bad dialog like "From my perspective the jedi are evil,I hate sand its blah blah,I am a person and my name is anakin,are you an angel?,anything with MOTHERFUCKING MIDICHLORIANS in it,meesa,love wont save you only my new powers can do that,Ill try spinning thats a good trick...woooooah" I mean holy shit the dialog in the prequels made me grind my teeth 80% of the time and the rest was sooooo BAAAAAAAAAAAD.None of this is in episode 7 and there are also no really stupid character decisions like in the prequels where basic logic eluded characters so many times.Yes you could question some of the motivations in the movie but that is pretty minor.Yes the movies has its faults but it is not as bad as the prequels my friend
NothingOut OfNothing Sir, this is the internet. Take your measured, reasonable opinions, forget them, and join one of two polarised camps. /sarcasm
The answer is 300 killis of energy, per Dragonball Z episode 208 'Next Up, Goku'.
huh?
Impressive analysis of something that's done basically for the sake of adding a cool special effect and a McGuffin :)
Going with this line of thought, what if the Death Star's superlaser is not really a laser but more like a particle beam that affects matter at a lower level, like - I don't know, 'switches off' the strong nuclear force? or maybe somehow turns what it touches into anti-matter and causes a massive annihilation chain reaction, so strong that it seems instantaneous to the eye? I suppose that wouldn't change the energy requirements, but at least would make a bit more sense than an actual laser :)
BTW, your explanation of how the 'starsucker base' could work is pretty good - otherwise the weapon would have absolutely no point, which is a lot, even for a Star Wars movie :-)
And yeah, having a decent mass driver and bombing Alderaan back to stone age with asteroids would be much more realistic but would probably take long. No 'shock and awe' campaign ;)
Several folks brought up the fact that planets are shielded. But the original Death Star utilize a high power laser blast, if the target planet was shielded then even the laser would have to overload said shield. In a case like that it would still not be necessary to destroy the whole planet, just bombard the shield with so much energy that the shield itself literally cooks the surface of the planet.
You see in most science fiction , shields work by taking the energy of a laser blast and distributing that energy around the the entire surface of the shield, the by product of this is heat. The more energy applied to the shield the more heat the shield generates. Apply enough energy and the shield either collapses or generates so much heat that whatever it was protecting is cooked to a crisp.
So all the Empire needed to do was overload the shield and them bombard the planet, or let the shield do all the work.
I mean you just need a power level of 15,000 according to DBZ
+Derp Lord I've always found that a little rididculous. Frieza's 530,000 in his first form seems less acheivable for the average warrior.
Riley Banks Well I mean, the strongest a human managed to get before the saiyans showed up had a power level of, like, 800
+Derp Lord
Where are we now with power levels? Is it like, in the billions or something?
+Zebo12345678
Oh we're loooong past that.
Zebo12345678 It got to the point where they stopped measuring power levels in numbers. Freeza had a power level of 1.2 million, and then Goku surpassed him by becoming a Super Saiyan. And since then, there was Super Saiyan 2, and 3. Then there was Super Saiyan 4, which was retconned, and now there is Super Saiyan God, and Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.
In short, most DBZ characters could blow up a planet at this point.
how much power does it take to destroy a planet? goku super sayian 1
Saitama>Goku
*grabs popcorn and is ready to lay down some logic
+Itzz Chino he's overrated.
CentinalxGaming goku is overrated
Yea cuz beerus tapped on a table and destroyed half a planet...
And when people say, "Saitama has infinite power" it doesn't make any sense. If someone has no limits then they would be able to do anything. Like creating universes, infinite skills, etc.
Your power should be over NINEEEETHOUSAND!
+Nikke Tmzee Ok...
One reason why I have always thought that the Empire built the Death Star was as a means to overcome planetary shields. We see in The Empire Strikes Back that Vader's fleet is incapable of penetrating the small shields on Hoth, it is thus likely that more developed worlds have even stronger shields. It would explain why the Empire build a weapon that used so much overkill, it was the most efficient means of overcoming shielded worlds, in a similar manner to cannons against castles.
As for the problem of where such a shield would dump all its energy, astrophysicist Curtist Saxton came up with something rather clever. In the Incredible Cross Section books, he wrote that Star Wars vessels use neutrino generators, thus dumping their waste energy in an inert form. That would also explain how Coruscant avoids cooking itself, which would naturally occur with that many people on such a world, as pointed out by Irregular Webcomic.
He also suggested an interesting solution to the power problem created here. It would obviously be impossible for something like the Death Star to carry that much energy under E=mc^2(especially if firing more than once, not to mention jumping into hyperspace). Given that Star Wars has FTL, it could be possible to store energy in a tachyonic state in which the mass of fuel is not actually carried by starships because almost all of it is stored in hyperspace. In other words, it can overcome the tyranny of the rocket equation.
Starkiller base also has the odd problem of the beam apparently travelling at FTL while also being visible in multiple star systems. The novelization also apparently claims that the weapon uses dark energy and tears a hole in spacetime. Unlike the above, it was clearly not written by a physicist.
Han's trick of bypassing shields is also rather problematic. It completely negates the need for a Death Star or anything else that would overcome shields as it is able to bypass them entirely.
First you need a small loan of a million dollars.
barcalona55 meesa got that
Just blackmail a rich Republican. Boom, done.
Saitama can destroy the earth with one punch :Y
+joshua ortega Ok...
Fuck your anime shit
atlet krasniqi No
+atlet krasniqi lol k
Personally, I think Elder God Demonbane, Simon the Digger (STTGL form), Kami Tenchi, Dark Schneider, Giorno Giovanna and his Gold Experience Requiem, Guts the Black Swordsman (Beast of Darkness+Berserker Armor), and Pirate King Atomsk are the most powerful characters in manga and anime. They will give Saitama, Son Goku, Kenshiro, Zeref, Alucard, Madoka, Madara Uchida, Gilgamesh, even the Godhand members a difficult time of combating them. It will take 13 universes, dimensions, axis, and ambiguities just to be on par with them. EVA Unit 13 might be part of the list if Shinji Ikari and/or Kaworu Nagisa go into a jmode where they don't give a fuck with ending life on Earth, thus becoming Awakening Kami EVA Unit 13.
A tiny mosquito can kill a giant man. That was my inspiration for the battle of Yavin.
The empire also did your scenario at the end. The had a code name for it and everything in the books: base delta zero. A fleet of star destroyers would surround the planet and lay waste to it with a turbolaser bombardment. The planet killer weapon was meant to be more terrifying and bring systems to a knee quicker without needing to do more then park it near by.
You don't need to build a Death Star to destroy a planet. You only need Donald Trump
Okay, that is the worst joke I've ever seen.
@@solarmaster3405 Have you ever known a liberal who's actually funny?
@@war1497 No, and that joke doesn't even make sense.
As far as the comment in the beginning, "high-tech fantasy" is an accurate description. Personally, I prefer the older term "Space Opera".
Excellent video; thank you
Very informative, thanks
Looking back at the explosion, you can't see what is left of the planet afterwards. Could that mean that the planet was not completely destroyed? The bits we see flying off might as well just be the crust of Alderaan and the core and mantle might be messed up but not obliterated. Would that not decrease the energy needed?
Good one Scott
not sure if anyone else has said this... However in the book for Force Awakens, star killer base uses Dark Matter instead of a star for power. I believe the energy source change was done for dramatic purposes and for an easy blanket viewer understanding
Hey Scott! think about this... the green lights actually travels slower than lightspeed, we can clearly se eit with our own eyes. What if that beam isn't actually a beam, but a laser propelled kinetic projectile (unimaginably dense one i presume, like miniature black hole).
So ofcourse the projectile would travel slower at start end, and thats why it looks slow. You know the size of the deathstaar, so can you calculate the actual speed of that green light travels from disc rim into center column? And... while you are at it... calculate the projectile actual mass and power at... lets say if it accelerates like to 99,9999% of lightspeed?
You're never getting invited to the ranch if you throw a wet blanket on the physics of a galaxy far, far away.
You've calculated a stars output and how long it would take to siphon off the needed energy needed but that's not how Starkiller Base worked. It consumed the star itself, mass and all, it wasn't just harnessing it's output. In this way not only is active nuclear output consumed but raw materials are recovered and stored to be used in whatever manner the Empire has designed.
As far as continuing usefulness I wouldn't put it past the Empire to build a weapon of this magnitude that could only be used twice. Complete destruction of 2 solar systems (3 if you count the one you killed to fire said weapon) from anywhere in the galaxy without having to put a single stormtrooper on the ground seems pretty good in a risk/reward sense. Of course, they underestimate the rebels yet again and never get to that second firing.
Scott heres a question I was wondering when watching the movie. The Starkiller eats a star to power up as you said in the video. But what would happen to a solar system (the planets in it) if the star was removed? What would happen to those planets if you simply removed the gravitational forces that star was outputting and essentially holding that solar system together?
Also another question along the same lines. If you removed the sun how long before all life on a world would die out?
Just for kicks and since FTL travel is possible in the Starwars Universe.
How fast would a Kamikaze Star Destroyer pilot have to accelerate to before crashing, to achieve the same damage to Alderaan as the Deathstars beam weapon?
hey scott, what is the song that is playing at the end?
+Alexander Dubberke It's the music from Universe Sandbox 2
Almost a million views! was this video featured somewhere?
4:44 - Awesomely appropriate still shot.
Right on! Great video. I have allays preferred to think of the Star Wars saga as a fairy tale. Just look at the way they all start. A long time ago, in a land (galaxy) far far away ..... there lived a ...
I was 25 when the first movie premiered, before DVDs and even before VHS was commonly available. I watched it about 20 times in the first 6 months. :-)
Nice video, but 4:15 can you really calculate this only using the emitted energy. Because I mean if their sucking in the whole sun they're kind of consuming the whole fusion reactor. Plus the emitted energy isn't that only on the surface? If the Sun gets sucked in, cant the surface area of the sun be somewhat extended inside the starkillerbase, so that there is more area to emit the energy?
Regarding your last comment about more efficient forms of terrorism, I would like to point out that orbital bombardment had already been employed for thousands of years (Taris about 4000bby, but I guess that's not canon anymore). The Death Star was designed by a scientist in the Maw as a 'mining platform' to expose the heavy metals in the core of a planet, which necessitates the ripping of the planet apart rather than a surface bombardment. Obviously the empire intended to use it for terror from the start, but technically, it was not a weapon, it was a tool with a practical purpose.
I'm glad your getting more attention, your basically a teacher :)
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But why we need to calculate the required energy that way? We have a superlaser - maybe we need to vaporize planet (or ) instead of "cutting it piece by piese and sending it to deep infinity" (that was my first try to apply the equation of gravitational binding energy having a superlaser)?
It would be great if you make calculations of other ways of destruction...
(Didn't read previous comments, and yes, sorry for possible bad English)
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So "Battle Beyond the Stars" (almost exactly 30 minutes into the movie for those fortunate enough to have not seen it) more accurately depicted making millions of voices cry out in terror in a cost-effective manner? Arguably, it was the movie itself that did this.
Congrats on going viral!
I know this video is older so I don’t expect anyone to reply to this comment.
Having done some ‘research’ into the different weapon types and what particles they use, in things like Star Wars and Star Trek.
What I found was that the death star used a positron beam for its superlaser. And from my understanding, positrons are a form of antimatter. If this is the case, wouldn’t it take a considerably lower amount of power in order to destroy an entire planet? I remember watching a video regarding this somewhere a while back that explained that because the laser was positron based, it would cause a chain reaction between the matter and antimatter making the destructive power however many times larger.
Obviously I’m no physicist, I went to college for diesel mechanics and I just kinda do these kinds of things in my free time when I’m bored. So maybe this could be a topic for your next video?
I call Sci Fi "Idea Bucket" because many concepts and ideas that are very useful today originally were part of "Sci fi"
While not disputing your facts, i would like to remind you that the Death Star was designed for no other reason than planet busting. The reactor system was designed to power up for one shot then it took a whole day to recharge for a second shot (If needed). That was the reason that the Death Star did not shoot through the planet Yavin to get to the Rebel base. Also, the second Death Star had a more robust reactor system that enabled it to fire multiple shots (Even it was at a much smaller targets} You could say that DS1 was the super laser version of a musket vs the DS2 being like a semi automatic rifle
AFAIK, the general consesus on why the Death Star had to be so powerfull is to get past the very, very sturdy shields that protect most Planets.
If you just wanted to glass the surface, regular Star Destroyers could do the job easily in a few hours. It's just that all the major planets have shields that would shrug this off easily.