A glaring omission from me! I also didn't include a few other fringe candidates such as Polis Massa but ignoring a planet proper is a dreadful mistake from me
There are others: Fondor, Dantooine, Ryloth (although the first two only appear in the KOTOR games, they're referenced here and there. Ryloth, the Twi'Lek homeworld, appeared in Rebels IIRC).
@@maerythegreek9008 There's really no way to imagine the scientific advances of a type 2 civilization that has existed as a Galactic government for ATLEAST 40,000 years. You just can't, the way their tech works or their capabilities are just space magic to us
8:36 coruscant is most definitely doing some major geo engineering. there is basically no plant life left on that planet, it's entire surface is covered layers upon layers upon layers of cities. honestly, the pollution / heating problem is secondary to the ability of the city to support itself on top the older cities imo.
Extremely easy ! Convert all heat into eletric energy or other forms of energy ! Convert all pollution into breathable air. Why would think thats so hard ?
@@GeraltofRivia22 my head cannon for why the population is so low is that they don't count certian species the same as others(like some species are just seen as lesser, so one of them only counts as a fraction of a person or some species have a hive mind and thus are considered one person). That and/or other portions of the planet not having as many people as we see in the area around the Jedi temple. But even with that, the population still seems a bit low.
@FizZeld Because it's the place where he suffered the most. On the other hand that's the actual reason Vader built his castle on Mustafar: it strengthens his dark side.
That's not wrong though. Too bad instead of jumping off into something new or re treading the hero's journey they let someone take a massive shit on stage and call it a movie. Even the Gary Stue female lead could have become something interesting to more than just the politically correct police.
It's sad cause they could've slapped Star Wars on practically any movie and it would have succeeded. I don't know why they didn't take some chances on a real story.
@@rayanderson5797 it would basically be spring or summer year round in the equator, while the north and south pole would most likely be in a permanent Autumn or mild Winter
@@JacketCKI can't even begin to imagine cold equatorial climates as a reality. Although real climates without change exist on earth, they are all equatorial forests.
I always interpreted the "core" to mean further underground passageways that nobody else had ever gone deeper than, and it would be called a core colloquially.
@SciFyerGaming well actually, there is a known planet in our galaxy that is shown to be almost 100% water to the core, then again there is a planet with such a gravitational pull that it has Ice even when it's as close to the sun as venus or mercury
@@areallybadname9701 Venus' atmosphere is so dense that it could facilitate floating cities. In fact, the atmospheric layers that would be at optimal pressures for humans are also lacking in the planet's more corrosive properties.
If we had the technology to build Coruscant, we should also be able to move heat into space, using something similar to geothermal heating for houses, but on a much larger scale. Collect the heat in the lower city and pump it into high orbit to be released.
OriginalTharios I don't believe it's the writers fault, it more of the artists who design and build the visual representation of the world. If I wanted to nick pick, there should of been more super structures like space rings, orbital elevators, a swarm of habitual space stations.
Be nice. If you are enough of a superfan to go all caps; you should know that the planet and its forest moon are both called Endor. Just for the sake of playing Micheal’s advocate though. If you check their orbital charts; you might see that they are both planets. According to the IAU’s 2006 assertion that ousted Pluto, each of them is three laws compliant* and qualifies as a planet. The Moon and Earth have a similar 2 planets 1 orbit** relationship. *Yes, that was a thoroughly uncalled for allusion, but Isaac Asimov has been in the new a lot lately. **My apologies, this was just an inexcusably bad joke that reflects my immaturity.
After TROS: The Original Trilogy, the ones the memes come from (prequels), the ones which everybody hates (sequels), Les Mis in Space (Rogue One), Pearl Harbor in Space (Solo), and Rotta's Day Out (The Clone Wars Movie).
Kashyyyk was actually terraformed by the Rakatan infinite empire, same with Tattooine. Also, Courosunt is using weather and geological control. It barley ever rains on Courosunt.
NWTactical the tattooine transformation is still cannon, actually I'm not 100% sure if it is cannon as I didn't exactly see "legends" slapped on it, but it was said that Tattooine wasn't a always a "desert wasteland"
You know, I'm actually pretty sure your correct killerninja. I was about to post a comment saying the exact same thing, then I saw your post. So pretty sure your correct. I was also thinking, the gas on cloud city isn't your standard gas.. it's created by those giant floating creatures, I forget there names. They release the gas as a by product from there feeding, then its harvested.. so that could change things in regards to the placement of oxygen, as I'm sure it's stated that the gas is very dense?
except "bespin" actually could never exist, because you cant build a city in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant, even though you could build one in the upper atmosphere of a terrestrial planet like venus.
@@raidermaxx2324 do you know all elements of all the planets out there? Because you don't. You've got no idea and no conclusive evidence to support any argument you've got saying it couldn't dare exist. Correct, with our earthly materials
@@mcthuggin9803 um well actually yea I do.. they can only be whatever elements exist on our periodic table of elements, but each planet can have different elements depending on how it was formed, and where.. but there are no"eridian" type sci-fi elements "yet to be discovered" except for highly radioactive heavy metals above 125 on the periodic table .. but those don't exist in nature and have to be made artificially in a particle accelerator like the Hadron collider or in nature when neutron stars collide, and the element only exists for a short time before it decays into random electrons .. so yea, actually I do know what elements are on every planet, because our chemistry and physics that exist on our planet, is the same for the entire observable universe ..
Terraforming? Interstellar travel has been around for freaking forever in Star Wars, so all these planets could have been terraformed before even the Old Republic
@@echelon3282 Correct, as well as Kashyyyk. According to KOTOR the Rakata punished the rowdy and rebellious inhabitants of a lush Tatooine by glassing the planet, but not before planting their native greenery on a then bare Kashyyyk.
I don't know about Hosnian, but Coruscant does have some *serious* geo-engineering going on. Its climate is completely controlled by stations across the planet and by orbital mirrors, which focus sunlight from the planet's sun (which is actually a bit further away than earth's is). So... yeah.
I don't know why she's acting like you even could run a planet-sized city off of fossil fuels. (And yes, if you can build such a thing, geoengineering is mandatory, but not that big a task) For more see: th-cam.com/video/XAJeYe-abUA/w-d-xo.html
A population of 1 Trillion seems rather low for a planet-city such as Coruscant! I don't know why they gave it a 'maybe', they obviously don't rely on fossil fuel for their primary source of energy, and geo-engineering would be no big deal at all for a civilization as advanced as that depicted in Star Wars.
@@KutWrite It seems reasonable to assume that it would be paid for by taxation of the planetary population and industry, or by tax collected from across the galaxy given that it was the political centre for such a long period?
Mustafar, according to its information in the complete locations book, it is a moon caught in between the gravitational pull of nearby planets. Because of this, the two planet's gravitational pull is literally tearing the mustafar apart. That is why it's so volcanic.
So it is a lot more like Io then Earth in the hadean. but that still doesn't explain its breathable atmosphere. Should be choked with volcanic gasses and with no plant life on its surface to replenish the breathable oxygen then it should have all been sequestered back into the rocks by the volcanic activity if it even had oxygen in the first place. I see the point still standing.
+MegaAwesomeNick no, yeah, you're right it still stands. the only explanation made in-universe as to why anakin, Obi-Wan, and padme survived how they did was that the landing platform was shielded and Anakin and Obi-Wan created force barriers (a thing in star wars legends) to protect them from the insane heat which I think the book placed at 600 degrees Fahrenheit if i remember correctly. but yeah, that still doesn't make the atmosphere breathable or anything so vid still very much stands.
I was looking for a comment about Naboo, that planet also has a core of plasma energy instead of a molten one so we really can't decide on that mind f#ck.
They probably mean "really deep", like at the crust boundary to the mantle. The bottom of an ocean. Not literally the core of the planet. As shown the planetary battlefield on the surface wasn't that far from Theed.
More likely than not it may just be deep river and lakes with many connected by under water cavities, canals and caves. And would be located at around 0 to 5,000 ft deep into nabboo's crust. Also it has the potential to be deeper in the oceans.
Isaac Delgass Unlikely means nothing, given the mere possibility means that it exists, somewhere in the billions of galaxies. Saying that anything is impossible is almost meaningless, really.
the idea that something not being impossible means it exists is moderately incorrect. Some infinities are bigger than other as the saying goes. Take it like with the number scale. There are infinite things between 1 and 2. None of them are 3 or 4. Just as with that in the near infinity that is the ever expanding universe is the same as that may be everything between earth and endor but that doesn't mean kashyyk is in it.
But this is just 2 factors. Of wich BOTH exist in our solar system so its unlikely that they are that rare. And in a galaxy with literal billions of worlds there are sure to be one or two worlds that show both characteristics.
Exegol would probably be blamed on Sith fuckery and geolical instability what with the starships under the surface and all the -I’m assuming- gases or dust in the atmosphere
Just curious on some things. How would Tatooine or other desert planets hold a breathable atmosphere with no large bodies of water or seemingly any flora? Isn't Naboo's interior a bunch of massive big tunnels filled with underground oceans, does that not cause some issue? I presume Mustafar minus a global breathable atmosphere (say as a mining base manned by droids, or with interior atmosphere within strucutres) would work? Also I felt a little cheated on Dagoba, it seems sometimes singular biomes planets can exist, but I was hoping for details how a planetwide swamp would work. Other than that, great video
And how could a world lacking any visible water or flora support populations of megafauna like Banthas, Dewbacks, Krayt Dragons, Rontos, Sarlaacs, and so on?
Tatooine used to be covered in plant life, until the Rakata firebombed it to dust and glass. What water is left is either in the atmosphere, or in aquifers deep under the sand. And turns out that Earth itself has an underground ocean.
Sarlaacs are actually foreign to the planet. 98% of it's body is underground, it has taproots to suck up underground water, and it digests it's prey over thousands of years. Banthas are found all over the galaxy. Nobody knows why or how, and it even developed a cult in-universe due to the mystery. And turns out Tattooine has some plant life, and a species of lichen that a lot of herbivores depend on. And of course, Krayt Dragons EAT the other megafauna, and basically everything else.
@@alveolate They did this with a tool called 'Plotdevice'. It allows you to build shit from even less stuff than McGaiver uses and make it work a thousand times more efficent than it could possibly work. Whoever invented this tool was a true genius.
As soon as I saw Star Killer Base, I lost my shit. Before I even knew what it did. Our crust may be as thin as an eggshell when compared to a basketball, but it's not an Easter Egg craft where you poke a hole in the bottom and let the yolk leak out.
TBH hollowing out plants is EASY in a Sci-Fi setting. If you really want your mind blown by some Hard Sci-Fi, try this: th-cam.com/video/Tul4njD6uP4/w-d-xo.html
Mustafar is described as a planet in the materials, but the film, which we should consider the most valid source, shows it near a bigger planet in all the space views. Therefore I would say it's a moon and the volcanic activity is due to the tidal forces, just like Io. Also, how about Naboo? Apparently it's possible to travel through its core with a submarine, if we take Boss Nasses words literally. The wiki says that the interior has naturally occurring plasma.
The most surprising and unrealistic part of the planets is that they all have a single 100% consistent ecosystem across the entire planet despite mostly all being near Earth sized with Earth climate and temperature.
5:48, but that not the gas it made of, It Tibanna gas (fictional) which, based on its use in plasma weapons, is much MORE dense and heavy then air. Real world Science is all well and good but just ignore fictional elements (in this case literally) from a setting.
Doesn't matter. If Cloud City is sitting in the bottom of a nitrogen/O2 layer, just above a layer of tibanna, the way gases sort out should mean that the N/O2 layer - and Cloud City within it - should be under inhospitable pressure due to the lighter gases above it. (it'd be hard to imagine there being no lighter gases - hydrogen and helium are _everywhere_ in a forming solar system no matter what weird galaxy you're in, and they seem to accumulate anywhere with a strong enough gravity well to hold them.) Of course, this doesn't mean you can't have a Cloud City. It just means that it should not have been open to the sky.
The focus of the video was "could these planets/moons/whathaveyou really exist?", not "could these things exist if we make allowances for the writers' imaginations?". I could tell you there is a planet somewhere off in the distance that has a perfect 372 day year, numerous moons, and is otherwise exactly like Earth. If the two people in this video tell me such a thing is impossible, I tend to believe them regardless of what Plot Crowbar I use to get around their objections.
aspie182 that’s where you’re wrong. Is the video limited by what planets could form naturally or are stable according the laws of physics? Many planets in Star Wars were altered, either their landscape or their position in the local solar system. And that is entirely possible according to physics.
Hold on so mercury has nearly no axial tilt and venus has a nearly perfect orbit. Judging on our solar system alone there would be (1/8)*(1/8) chance of a planet having both traits, or rather 1/64 chance. If the space lady says it's extremely unlikely then I trust her, but I would like some reasoning behind it.
@@volundrfrey896 Well the problem with that is that our solar system is just one example, which could be the exception. Though what you are saying is mathematically correct, we simply don't have enough measurements to concider this 1/64 chance to be correct. She also said 'nearly', so having an actually perfect orbit and no tilt hasn't been recorded yet. And in this case you might also have to consider every object in our solar system, not just the eight biggest ones. This would quickly turn 1/64 into an improbably small chance.
@@hard_drive.system Ruling out a planet for orbital mechanics that are not only plausible but completely possible is a tad, well, rash. Especially as we can observe both, while on operate planets, in one solar system. That is our own.
My calculations show that coruscants population would be at least in the quadrillions. (With the population density of New York City being used for every layer [3000+] and their respective surface areas)
@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 but not nearly to that degree. coruscant has literally thousands of layers with each layer including several stories. I personally like to think it has the heat equivalent of a black hole somewhere down in the core because otherwise, massive heat death Edit: Also, apart from the factories they also have to be growing their own food, so it can be assumed that they have massive hydroponic systems down there recycling their biowaste in the process
I imagine Coruscant has vast spaces where people don't live. Power grids, huge biowaste recycling systems, massive atmospheric cleaners, automated production facilities, shipyards, factories, with huge structural supports throughout.
Fantastically done, really interesting video! Keep up the good work! P.S. The number of meme-references in this video was off the charts! Even Master Yoda doesn't have a meme count that high!
Only by Disney standards, but since Disney is not the Star Wars we accept as canon, its not important. Ney, on the contraire. Its an abomination that ruins the true Star Wars lore, both past and future.
Bespin, from what I know it contains a gas used for hyperdrives called Tibanna Gas. Perhaps Tibanna Gas is heavier then Oxygen and Nitrogen, making it possible for a thin oxygen layer to exist on Bespin.
People who know the full extent of star wars lore : well actually , corrusant has something called air sweepers and they clean the air in the atmosphere . Also mustafar is only covered in lava not because of anything scientific but it fully relies on a death of a jedi long ago , explaining why in the rise of skywalker the planet is now covered with trees
Some of the planets that you said were impossible, could be possible if you look at them slightly differently. Corosaunt looks pretty dark in the shots shown, perhaps it's further away from the star, and the population producing more heat and greenhouse effects are actually preventing the planet from freezing? You let Eadu pass with that exact explanation.
If any of the planets in the alpha centauri system are desserts, we should name it Vulcan. I struggle to think of many more star trek planets, largely due to the sheer quantity of them, and the fact that most of them are earth like.
Well, a rise you a somewhat counter intuitive bit of statistics: A planet like earth has a probability of a 100% to exist in the solar system and milky way. All past events have zero uncertainty after observed and our planet is already here =)
It’s theoretically possible in the future that we could build giant bases containing stars so with the super advanced society of Star Wars I would have given the Starkiller Base a Maybe.
This was extremely cool and very helpful! I'm trying to create a universe similar to Star Wars with planets and star systems that could theoretically exist in our own world and this really helped me with that! Plus, I'm a Star Wars fan and a science nerd, so this was just awesome all around
The water planets are interesting to me. I read a novel by Arthur C. Clarke called "The Songs of Distant Earth" which featured a water planet, covered by ocean save for a single archipelago. Seeing them show up in things like Star Wars, Interstellar and even Waterworld, or "Mad Max on Water" always makes me smile.
The Celestials geoengineered many planets, and engineered Star systems in the Star Wars galaxy, in some cases for very esoteric reasons, and we do not know all of the systems they engineered, or why they engineered them, so eliminating any candidates is problematic. That they engineered star systems to begin with also means that you need to give them some systems that they engineered for practice, so looking at any systems and saying "well, they didn't do *hypothetical planet or star system engineering purpose* here, so that means that it wasn't engineered" is a meaningless statement. Plus, as stated in other comments, other species geoengineered planets, and may well have engineered star systems too. And, all of this is fiction, fiction that can change at any time to suit new changes in canon. Which means all of it is bullshit, or that none of it is bullshit. Given the last 2 movies, I'm leaning towards all bs.
you forgot Salucamai (that could exist) for the new movies: Kessel: could exist but unlikely with a breathable atmosphere Canto Bight: Yes Crait: Yes Mimban: yes Savareen: yes (similar climate to Tatooine) Corellia: yes Vandor: yes (Hoth with jagged mountains) That other planet from Solo that I cant remember: probably
They forgot one thing: Planets without geological activity won't be able to maintain surface life, since the lack of a protective magnetosphere would leave life helplessly exposed to the radiation of the nearest star.
Love the thinking that went into this video. Very impressive. However, I take issue with wookieworld. You specifically say that in our solar system we have evidence of no tilt and perfect circular orbit. Then go on to say that the chances of it happening are slim. There are a lot of planets in the universe and that is the only thing that makes it a "maybe"?
It is canon that Courasant uses massive terraforming machines to regulate the atmosphere and keep super hot and polluted air away from residential areas. The same is probably true for Hosnian Prime, and I'd imagine that the outside areas of Cloud City are covered with some sort of energy shield (yay sci-fi magic!) that keeps in an artificial atmosphere.
The problem is the heat generated from the over 1 trillion beings and their industry would choke the planet. The heat would have to be dumped off planet for something like that to work.
Come on! Cloud city had a force field around filled with breathable air! And Mustafarian CIS bases had shield and that was also filled with breathable air! You should know that!
Ik im several years late, but although Starkiller couldnt exist, Illum (the planet it was before the new canon stuff) could likely exist, because its just Hoth but with some crystal caves.
These are just the planets that could/could not exist within our own universe as we know the laws of physics to work. They might work entirely differently in other solar systems which would allow for more of them to exist.
Hey I just wanted to add. In Star wars the clone wars in a few episodes it shows kaminoo with clear skies and only a few clouds. When obi wan landed there in episode 2 it was just in the middle of a bad storm.
So I'm going to throw this out here just to be that one star wars nerd. Tatooine didn't actually start out as a planet, it used to be like many other planets. Yes it was more dry thanks to its twin suns, but it wasn't barren. The reason it's a desert is because an EXTREMELY long time before the movies there was this massive Empire that was basically all powerful. Tatooine rose up against this empire so the planet was promptly "glassed." This is a slang term in star wars for bombarding a planet from orbit with turbolasers. Do it long enough and the crust of the planet will literally melt, and once cooled, turn to glass. The sand is a result of the glass wearing down over the millennia. Coruscant is stated to have atmospheric generators and all manner of other technology to keep the atmosphere the way that it is so that is perfectly feasible within the realm of star wars.
15:41 actually Starkiller base originally was an ice planet and could've existed, it even could've been Ilum, a sacred Jedi planet. The cannon says that Starkiller was originally and ice planet the Empire mined for kyber crystal, and what do you know, Ilum is an ice planet where young Jedi would go to get their kyber crystals for their light saber. Because of the ice planet being possible and the whole crystal thing being possible under the right circumstances Ilum could be possible, as for the Starkiller part, well the technology in the Star Wars galaxy is extremely advanced, I'm sure they could heat it up internally to more live-able conditions, or at very least I'm sure they had AC on the base we do them at.
With the way tatooine was depicted in the movie, I'm surprised you didn't once talk about where the Oxygen they were breathing came from, and also the fact that because it's a desert with two suns, how could Luke and his family live on that planet for years without developing a tan overtime? Especially his aunt and uncle.
while Canon does confirm that it once had Water, that doesn't help the fact that the Oxygen should be depleted by the inhabitants of Tatooine, that includes Geonosis, Jakku, and many other desert planets.
I wonder if we could build a Death Star planet on the surface of Earth, and then just "detach", maybe with some sort of pendulum in the middle, but the idea being that we don't have to launch all that mass into space, nor build it in space.
My question is how did the Kaminoans evolve into their current state? I just did a bit of research and it says they are adapted to seabeds which is strange since they are land dwellers. Legends says that there were continents that were flooded so the Kaminoans had to build above the water which explains why they live above water when there was no natural land. You would still think though that the Kaminoans would've lost their adaptations for seabeds in their time on land.
I think they don't adapt because they don't produce offspring in traditional ways, rather cloning themselves. This basically stops any natural evolution within their species
Maybe they were amphibious? Really, All you need to know is that they were designed to be the opposite of Yoda. The whole scene of Obi wan going to Kamino is the exact opposite of Luke going to Dagobah.
Insert argument about artificial terraforming processes to make hostile planets livable. Insert counterargument from Wookiepedia that details exactly when this did and did not happen in canon.
@@sheevone4359 Insert an army of angry fans who say that you have strayed from the Light Side and must be executed in a Geonosian gladiator arena. Also insert that one Trekkie who walked into the room by accident turning and leaving before being noticed.
A real life Mustafar equivalent already exist (apart from a few distinct features), and it is Io. Both are highly volcanic moons that orbit a gas giant.
Coruscant does have "strategically placed air filters in the upper atmosphere" - some now Legends book but Disney doesn't make enough good Star Wars content
I called BS on Starkiller Base ever since I watched TFA. During the final fight of the movie, as it was sucking up the star it was orbiting around, I couldn't help but think "why isn't the gravity of the planet increasing? It's gaining mass for heaven's sake!" Not to mention the amount of energy it would require to move such a massive object through space. That concept is even more ludicrous than moving the Death Star through hyperspace.
Hyperspace is its self ludicrous, but within the universe we actually know they can control gravity to a great degree and rather easily. So... they use established tech to negate the effects of the gain in mass. Also, the deathstar would have enough recoil to liquify everyone inside and the amount of energy it must have on hand would lead to a similar effect as you describe for starkiller base. Energy also distorts spacetime like mass and the deathstar has enough on hand to overcome the gravitational pull of several earth sized planets!
Regarding Mustafar, all you would need is some kind of flora that is consuming the CO2 and producing oxygen, like flora on Earth does today. So even though it may be difficult to imagine trees on such a geologically active planet, it's conceivable that something is actually living there and producing oxygen. Maybe they are flora with blimp-like air pockets allowing them to float around the upper atmosphere, far from the active surface of the planet.
My best guess would be that they had shields holding breathable atmosphere near the inhabited areas and the oxygen was imported. The problem arises when collateral damage of certain event destroys the shields. I can only assume the shields containing oxygen were managed by another system than that the duelists broke, or there was large enough reserve of oxygen for them to survive nearby for the relatively short period of time the duel took. Another question is how Palpatine survived casually walking there much later, but then again, if anyone could survive in unlivable conditions for an extended period of time, it'd be him.
The thing about Tatooine is that it was glassed by orbital bombardment 24.000 years prior to films. Kashyyik is an agricultural experiment(90% of it's life is artificialy ingeneered/modified, and orbit coud have been also changed. Yavin 4 is a natural nexus of the dark side, it's sith temples are not just architecture but a devices that collect and use the dark side energy and also had a ship buried on it that could heat up and destabilise entire stars, so it could have been used to heat Yavin and make this low density thing. Coruscant totaly has a climate control systems, and they(and all crusual coruscant systems) are made by Gree, who are one of the first races to develop technology, and this tech is repaired exclusevly by Gree Enclave, who are a degraded remnatnts of the Gree, still having some cool tech but not inventing anything new. Sources - Tatooine - Kotor 1(negotiating with sand people), Kashyyik - Kotor 1(uncovering the star map in the shadowlands), Yavin 4 - sith wars comics, Coruscant - SWTOR(coruscant planetary storyline).
the problem is, Tatooine's Glassing... doesn't really make sense, because not only this would make Tatooine into a Desert World, it would make it a more uninhabitable than what it was depicted in the films. the information you've given for Kashyyyk also comes from Legends, in which, is where non-canon goes to, the actual Canonical info is that Kashyyyk was used by the Czerka Corporation and enslaved the Wookiees until an uprising pulled the Czerka away from them. some of the information you've given to Coruscant is also Legends information, as the Gree is never mentioned on Coruscant's Canonical Wiki page, and are only mentioned in Canon to be in Outer Rim Territories
@@AlexanderThePerfect even still, it doesn't really make sense for Tatooine to still be habitable even after glassing, even if it's atmosphere survived, it wouldn't be all but non-breathable, so sorry, Legends sadly looses on this one, hell, its pretty god damn stupid as well, and i can understand to why it was placed in non-canon/Legends territory.
@@titan-1802 i just checked and this story is semi-canonised in the book of boba fett. Thy not specificly say anything about Rakata, but the devastation is canon.
@@AlexanderThePerfect if that's the case then shouldn't the Wookieepedia on the Canonical Information of Tatooine has this, because i checked, and... yet it still says "Long ago, Tatooine was covered in oceans and rainforests, but for unknown reasons, it became a hot desert world.", so even if that was stated to be a devastation, it would have been updated on its Canonical Page.
I mean, the space doesn’t actually have an end, so there could be a star wars universe but far far far really far away from us. Or we’re just in the unknown region of the Star Wars galaxy XD.
For me it's mostly* not about whether they could or could not exist, but whether the planet is realistic, or instance oxygen levels. Desert planets, Tatooine, Geonisis, Jakku ...where are the plants that produce oxygen, same for Hoth and Mon Cala (although in the latter this could still be attributed to sea-plants? Mustafar...It's an one big active vulcano, think of all the toxic fumes and gases. Of course the location within the system has to be realistic too, see Yavin 4
You forgot Salucamai from Episode III. :c
Other than that glaring error, this is a great video and I loved it. :3
A glaring omission from me! I also didn't include a few other fringe candidates such as Polis Massa but ignoring a planet proper is a dreadful mistake from me
Simon Clark I figured no Polis Massa because it's more of an asteroid more than a planet. Also I didn't mean to sound rude. Great video. :3
There are others: Fondor, Dantooine, Ryloth (although the first two only appear in the KOTOR games, they're referenced here and there. Ryloth, the Twi'Lek homeworld, appeared in Rebels IIRC).
Vandross01 also, kessel
This is just for the movies though. There are double this amount in the books and tv shows.
"Can Alderaan exist?" yeah but not for long
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Too soon? Um. Nope, we're good.
Coruscant is known to have major climate control tech, so yeah, dealing with global warming is well within its capabilities.
So that's why its air doesn't look like that of New Dehli and Bejing
But If there are no forests to produce oxygen and trilions of cars,factories ect what would they breath?!
Maery the Greek I mean, some ships could be carrying shipments of oxygen tanks or something. It’s dumb, but works out (imo).
@@doubleoof7907 It stsnds out,for a sci-fi eutopia,lol
But it's still a fucking one trillion.
China×1000.
It would be more of a dystopia in real life!
@@maerythegreek9008 There's really no way to imagine the scientific advances of a type 2 civilization that has existed as a Galactic government for ATLEAST 40,000 years. You just can't, the way their tech works or their capabilities are just space magic to us
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coruscant is most definitely doing some major geo engineering. there is basically no plant life left on that planet, it's entire surface is covered layers upon layers upon layers of cities. honestly, the pollution / heating problem is secondary to the ability of the city to support itself on top the older cities imo.
How they breathe tf
Read Fundation, a SF book by Isaac Asimov and you will see how a city-planet work. That book it is same like Star Wars on quality
The biggest problem with Corusant is how low the population is. 1 trillion is ridiculously small for a city the size of an entire planet.
Extremely easy !
Convert all heat into eletric energy or other forms of energy !
Convert all pollution into breathable air.
Why would think thats so hard ?
@@GeraltofRivia22 my head cannon for why the population is so low is that they don't count certian species the same as others(like some species are just seen as lesser, so one of them only counts as a fraction of a person or some species have a hive mind and thus are considered one person).
That and/or other portions of the planet not having as many people as we see in the area around the Jedi temple.
But even with that, the population still seems a bit low.
Simon: "Mustafar resembles the Earth in the Hadean period..."
Literally no one:
Me: "...Hadean Christensen?"
_Hades_ Christensen
I get the joke, but seriously, who doesn't want to see Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader in the Kenobi show?
Are you taking the high ground? @@mikeor-
That would be the time right before the dinosaurs, when the first collection of reptiles and bugs were wiped out.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar not just the men reptiles and bugs, but the women and the children reptiles and bugs, too.
Did you know: Darth Vader canonically has a castle on mustafar, being his main residence.
@FizZeld Because it's the place where he suffered the most. On the other hand that's the actual reason Vader built his castle on Mustafar: it strengthens his dark side.
@@Ambar42 I wonder if Vader ever sent out a search party to find his lost legs and his wang 😆
@@philingrouille7198 I guess they're burnt to ashes but nice thought. :'D
Mustafa is the one who died right? Am I in the right movie?
He still has a wang
Literally laughed out loud at “A New Hope II: Electric Boogaloo”
Same
That's not wrong though. Too bad instead of jumping off into something new or re treading the hero's journey they let someone take a massive shit on stage and call it a movie. Even the Gary Stue female lead could have become something interesting to more than just the politically correct police.
Reminds Grian, but this video is older.
It's sad cause they could've slapped Star Wars on practically any movie and it would have succeeded. I don't know why they didn't take some chances on a real story.
Why you hating on the wookies just because their planet is possible but rare(er)?
I'm actually curious as to weather having one constant season would actually be consistent to an ecology that appears to be so similar to Earth.
@@rayanderson5797 it would basically be spring or summer year round in the equator, while the north and south pole would most likely be in a permanent Autumn or mild Winter
@@rayanderson5797 weather in equatorial regions on Earth are pretty consistent throughout the year.
@@JacketCKI can't even begin to imagine cold equatorial climates as a reality. Although real climates without change exist on earth, they are all equatorial forests.
Wookie killed his Grandma
The Ewoks don't live on Endor. They inhabit the Forest Moon of Endor.
Well the planet, moon and system are all called Endor, so technically they do live on Endor.
Brayden Linderman yeah
"Forest Moon of Endor".... is that the Forest Moon of "Endor" or the Forest "Moon of Endor"?
@@TheOJDrinker both. the planet and moon are endor
Hush
what about Naboo, it has water all the way through the core?
Right
I always interpreted the "core" to mean further underground passageways that nobody else had ever gone deeper than, and it would be called a core colloquially.
@SciFyerGaming well actually, there is a known planet in our galaxy that is shown to be almost 100% water to the core, then again there is a planet with such a gravitational pull that it has Ice even when it's as close to the sun as venus or mercury
yeah, the earth has water that covers half the planet to the bottom until it hits the steaming hot molten magma
@@JacketCK what planet
Shameful that there's no mention that Cloud Cities ***could*** exist in real life . . . above Venus.
THANK YOU! I was looking for this
Or how about going to mercury but you can't go outside during the day...
Oh wait wrong movie
But Venus isn’t a gas giant like Bespin.
@@areallybadname9701 Venus' atmosphere is so dense that it could facilitate floating cities. In fact, the atmospheric layers that would be at optimal pressures for humans are also lacking in the planet's more corrosive properties.
Venus is a terrestrial planet, not a gas giant. Cloud cities could not exist in gas giants, even if they are plausible on Venus.
12:49 "The whole planet is flat"
Flatearthers: *"Ah victory"*
With the voice of Nut Gunray
I like how for Alderaan's mention it just gets blown up while all the other ones get nice panning shots.
yea wtf, plenty of footage in SW:TOR
Was waiting for this comment lmao
It's not that the movies have that many shots of Alderaan not being blown. Besides, it's the most recognizable image of the planet anyway.
A trillion inhabitants is actually very low considering the many city layers of Corusant.
it's totally a false number lol
Action maybe not
Prolly smelly like hell with all of those *ONION OGRE LAYERS*
If we had the technology to build Coruscant, we should also be able to move heat into space, using something similar to geothermal heating for houses, but on a much larger scale. Collect the heat in the lower city and pump it into high orbit to be released.
OriginalTharios I don't believe it's the writers fault, it more of the artists who design and build the visual representation of the world. If I wanted to nick pick, there should of been more super structures like space rings, orbital elevators, a swarm of habitual space stations.
This is one of the nerdiest videos I've ever seen. I loved every minute of it.
George Lucas Obi Wan Kenobi: Hello There!
Surprised that you don't see more like it. Wish star trek had planets like starwars franchise
@xuz xuzii It isn't a hoax, deal with it.
@xuz xuzii The troll is STRONG with this one.
@@Tampa0123456789 It has a Few Aye Just Check out 'VOYAGER'!!
ENDOR IS NOT A PLANET, IT’S A FOREST MOON!
REEEEEE
It's not a moon, it's a space sta... oh nevermind it's a moon.
@@Feaharn Like the name. Have you read the Silmarillion?
it is both lol hahahha get rekt
Well it’s a moon it’s literally called “The Forest Moon of Ender”
Be nice. If you are enough of a superfan to go all caps; you should know that the planet and its forest moon are both called Endor. Just for the sake of playing Micheal’s advocate though. If you check their orbital charts; you might see that they are both planets. According to the IAU’s 2006 assertion that ousted Pluto, each of them is three laws compliant* and qualifies as a planet. The Moon and Earth have a similar 2 planets 1 orbit** relationship.
*Yes, that was a thoroughly uncalled for allusion, but Isaac Asimov has been in the new a lot lately.
**My apologies, this was just an inexcusably bad joke that reflects my immaturity.
"The Original Trilogy
The ones the memes come from
Les Mis in space, and
New Hope II: Electric Boogaloo"
So accurate it hurts.
After TROS: The Original Trilogy, the ones the memes come from (prequels), the ones which everybody hates (sequels), Les Mis in Space (Rogue One), Pearl Harbor in Space (Solo), and Rotta's Day Out (The Clone Wars Movie).
I don’t know why they call it Hoth. They should call it...cold.
A well-known galactic pun. They have also the planet Kholdd which is quite hot ;)
Its like how Iceland is warmer than Greenland
As a kid I used to think mustafar was hoth.
Bottom feeder family guy
Colth
thank the maker that george lucas isn't a flat tattoiner.
Kashyyyk was actually terraformed by the Rakatan infinite empire, same with Tattooine.
Also, Courosunt is using weather and geological control. It barley ever rains on Courosunt.
NWTactical the tattooine transformation is still cannon, actually I'm not 100% sure if it is cannon as I didn't exactly see "legends" slapped on it, but it was said that Tattooine wasn't a always a "desert wasteland"
You know, I'm actually pretty sure your correct killerninja. I was about to post a comment saying the exact same thing, then I saw your post. So pretty sure your correct. I was also thinking, the gas on cloud city isn't your standard gas.. it's created by those giant floating creatures, I forget there names. They release the gas as a by product from there feeding, then its harvested.. so that could change things in regards to the placement of oxygen, as I'm sure it's stated that the gas is very dense?
Coruscant's artificial weather and geo change technology is canon.
A shame with the legend thing but terraforming is still controversial.
Killerninja It’s made up by some hipster screenwriter. Breathe
“Starkiller base couldn’t exist” Isaac Aurther be like hold my drink and snack.
Despite not being a gas giant, it is speculated that a type of cloud city could exist on Venus, much like Bespin
except "bespin" actually could never exist, because you cant build a city in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant, even though you could build one in the upper atmosphere of a terrestrial planet like venus.
@@raidermaxx2324 Maybe a mining city in which people wear ultra protective space suits? Or just use robots.
@@raidermaxx2324 do you know all elements of all the planets out there? Because you don't. You've got no idea and no conclusive evidence to support any argument you've got saying it couldn't dare exist. Correct, with our earthly materials
@@mcthuggin9803 um well actually yea I do.. they can only be whatever elements exist on our periodic table of elements, but each planet can have different elements depending on how it was formed, and where.. but there are no"eridian" type sci-fi elements "yet to be discovered" except for highly radioactive heavy metals above 125 on the periodic table .. but those don't exist in nature and have to be made artificially in a particle accelerator like the Hadron collider or in nature when neutron stars collide, and the element only exists for a short time before it decays into random electrons .. so yea, actually I do know what elements are on every planet, because our chemistry and physics that exist on our planet, is the same for the entire observable universe ..
Jack Fromet
I need it
*But where does the oxygen on the ice and sand planets come from???!*
Terraforming? Interstellar travel has been around for freaking forever in Star Wars, so all these planets could have been terraformed before even the Old Republic
Isn't that obvious?! Oxygen farting bacteria.
Well tech in Star Wars is shown to be that of a Type 3 civilization, so Terraforming technology isn't that much of a stretch
I’m pretty sure in the Expanded Universe that Tatooine and Hoth were both Terraformed by the Rakata
@@echelon3282 Correct, as well as Kashyyyk. According to KOTOR the Rakata punished the rowdy and rebellious inhabitants of a lush Tatooine by glassing the planet, but not before planting their native greenery on a then bare Kashyyyk.
I don't know about Hosnian, but Coruscant does have some *serious* geo-engineering going on. Its climate is completely controlled by stations across the planet and by orbital mirrors, which focus sunlight from the planet's sun (which is actually a bit further away than earth's is). So... yeah.
They never say who pays for all those mirrors, huge ships, space stations & other flashy stuff.
KutWrite probably Mexico(get it)
I don't know why she's acting like you even could run a planet-sized city off of fossil fuels. (And yes, if you can build such a thing, geoengineering is mandatory, but not that big a task)
For more see: th-cam.com/video/XAJeYe-abUA/w-d-xo.html
A population of 1 Trillion seems rather low for a planet-city such as Coruscant! I don't know why they gave it a 'maybe', they obviously don't rely on fossil fuel for their primary source of energy, and geo-engineering would be no big deal at all for a civilization as advanced as that depicted in Star Wars.
@@KutWrite It seems reasonable to assume that it would be paid for by taxation of the planetary population and industry, or by tax collected from across the galaxy given that it was the political centre for such a long period?
Wasn't Mustafar once a lush planet thriving with life before the bright star destroyed it? Or is that not cannon?
tl;dr - mustafar is not naturally made
That is canon, but the video was made about 2-3 years before that info was known
The fictional history doesn’t matter. It’s the planets that in the state they’re currently in when we see them in the movie.
What’s weird is that in TROS Mustafar ahas foliage on it where it should take millions of years for a planet to change like that
it is totally canon
Mustafar, according to its information in the complete locations book, it is a moon caught in between the gravitational pull of nearby planets. Because of this, the two planet's gravitational pull is literally tearing the mustafar apart. That is why it's so volcanic.
So it is a lot more like Io then Earth in the hadean. but that still doesn't explain its breathable atmosphere. Should be choked with volcanic gasses and with no plant life on its surface to replenish the breathable oxygen then it should have all been sequestered back into the rocks by the volcanic activity if it even had oxygen in the first place. I see the point still standing.
+MegaAwesomeNick no, yeah, you're right it still stands.
the only explanation made in-universe as to why anakin, Obi-Wan, and padme survived how they did was that the landing platform was shielded and Anakin and Obi-Wan created force barriers (a thing in star wars legends) to protect them from the insane heat which I think the book placed at 600 degrees Fahrenheit if i remember correctly.
but yeah, that still doesn't make the atmosphere breathable or anything so vid still very much stands.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mustafar was torn apart by the gravity of its parent planets.
But atmospheric shields are a thing in Star Wars. (hanger bays of ships for example) So that way a breathable atmosphere can be created.
It's a lot more like Io or what Yavin IV should be mentioned earlier in the video!
Here's a backhanded compliment: This video made you seem like an actual youtuber.
Loved this video, well produced and great explanations!
Great comeback to TH-cam, can't wait to see what's next!
Coruscant has a system that controls its atmosphere closely. Even deciding when and if it rains
What about that nonsense of Naboo having an "ocean core?"
its fiction and doesnt need to follow our laws
I was looking for a comment about Naboo, that planet also has a core of plasma energy instead of a molten one so we really can't decide on that mind f#ck.
Ocean core? you mean plaaaanet coooore
They probably mean "really deep", like at the crust boundary to the mantle. The bottom of an ocean. Not literally the core of the planet. As shown the planetary battlefield on the surface wasn't that far from Theed.
More likely than not it may just be deep river and lakes with many connected by under water cavities, canals and caves. And would be located at around 0 to 5,000 ft deep into nabboo's crust. Also it has the potential to be deeper in the oceans.
Wait, kashyyk is unlikely so it gets a maybe? How does that figure? If its possible, its possible.
Isaac Delgass my thoughts exactly
Isaac Delgass
Unlikely means nothing, given the mere possibility means that it exists, somewhere in the billions of galaxies.
Saying that anything is impossible is almost meaningless, really.
the idea that something not being impossible means it exists is moderately incorrect. Some infinities are bigger than other as the saying goes. Take it like with the number scale. There are infinite things between 1 and 2. None of them are 3 or 4. Just as with that in the near infinity that is the ever expanding universe is the same as that may be everything between earth and endor but that doesn't mean kashyyk is in it.
Bethorien
True, that.
The universe isn't actually infinitely large, so there are limits to probability, anyways.
Lol, I was indulging in hyperbole 😂
But this is just 2 factors. Of wich BOTH exist in our solar system so its unlikely that they are that rare. And in a galaxy with literal billions of worlds there are sure to be one or two worlds that show both characteristics.
NEW HOPE 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
KhanStopMe aahhahahahahhahahah I laughed so hard to this hahahahah
+Ser Gerold Of House Hightower
fuck you bitch
Bone Apple Tea kinda hard when a bunch of morons keep flinging shit everywhere
ROFLMAO
KhanStopMe
LMAO!! Brilliant 😅
I wish you had done this video after episodes 8 and 9, so you could talk about Crait and Exegol
Exegol would probably be blamed on Sith fuckery and geolical instability what with the starships under the surface and all the -I’m assuming- gases or dust in the atmosphere
Just curious on some things. How would Tatooine or other desert planets hold a breathable atmosphere with no large bodies of water or seemingly any flora?
Isn't Naboo's interior a bunch of massive big tunnels filled with underground oceans, does that not cause some issue?
I presume Mustafar minus a global breathable atmosphere (say as a mining base manned by droids, or with interior atmosphere within strucutres) would work?
Also I felt a little cheated on Dagoba, it seems sometimes singular biomes planets can exist, but I was hoping for details how a planetwide swamp would work.
Other than that, great video
And how could a world lacking any visible water or flora support populations of megafauna like Banthas, Dewbacks, Krayt Dragons, Rontos, Sarlaacs, and so on?
In Legends it's said that Tatooine was a jungle planet a long time ago
A very long time ago...but in the present there's no bodies of water and no flora. No source of oxygen. Or food for all of the animals.
Tatooine used to be covered in plant life, until the Rakata firebombed it to dust and glass. What water is left is either in the atmosphere, or in aquifers deep under the sand.
And turns out that Earth itself has an underground ocean.
Sarlaacs are actually foreign to the planet. 98% of it's body is underground, it has taproots to suck up underground water, and it digests it's prey over thousands of years.
Banthas are found all over the galaxy. Nobody knows why or how, and it even developed a cult in-universe due to the mystery.
And turns out Tattooine has some plant life, and a species of lichen that a lot of herbivores depend on. And of course, Krayt Dragons EAT the other megafauna, and basically everything else.
We really don't have to give them artistic license with starkiller base. That was just increadibly stupid.
....thank God...finally someone...
i mean... how would you hollow out a planet and why would you do that?
Just as "incredibly" stupid as your statement lol.
Haha you can't even spell you default.
@@alveolate They did this with a tool called 'Plotdevice'. It allows you to build shit from even less stuff than McGaiver uses and make it work a thousand times more efficent than it could possibly work. Whoever invented this tool was a true genius.
As soon as I saw Star Killer Base, I lost my shit. Before I even knew what it did. Our crust may be as thin as an eggshell when compared to a basketball, but it's not an Easter Egg craft where you poke a hole in the bottom and let the yolk leak out.
TBH hollowing out plants is EASY in a Sci-Fi setting. If you really want your mind blown by some
Hard Sci-Fi, try this: th-cam.com/video/Tul4njD6uP4/w-d-xo.html
@@Lashb1ade i knew it would be Isaac before i clicked the link
"theres no oxygen so it makes no sense"
literally every planet in the solar system other than earth:
am I joke to you
BradlinhoYT humans can’t breathe
@@jeffthatcher7736 they aren't humans
Zachary Williams there are plenty of humans. Luke, Leia, Han Solo. The planets that didn’t feature humans, have a chance of being realistic.
Mars and Venus have oxygen, and so do Jupiter and Saturn.
Mike Or barely any. Mars is primarily Co2, Jupiter and Saturn are primarily Hydrogen and Helium. A human could not breathe that air.
Wahay ya boy with the stylish haircut is back.
Real Engineering oh wow didn't expect to see you here. Though I suppose it makes sense.
Uhmm, that is "Dr.stylish haircut" to you sir!
Mustafar is described as a planet in the materials, but the film, which we should consider the most valid source, shows it near a bigger planet in all the space views. Therefore I would say it's a moon and the volcanic activity is due to the tidal forces, just like Io.
Also, how about Naboo? Apparently it's possible to travel through its core with a submarine, if we take Boss Nasses words literally. The wiki says that the interior has naturally occurring plasma.
Meanwhile in *Mass Effect: Andromeda* they can terraform a planets' atmosphere in under 10 minutes 😂
Pfft. Star Trek does that in 10 seconds.
I'm still waiting for Scott Ryder to give me that lap dance at Tartarus...
@@Mp57navy Only to have it explode a few weeks later.
@@benjaminnelson5455 Well.... that wasn't the point of the argument.
The three franchises have civilizations that can Terraform planets yet i think Star Wars is the only one with the Type 3 Civilization
The most surprising and unrealistic part of the planets is that they all have a single 100% consistent ecosystem across the entire planet despite mostly all being near Earth sized with Earth climate and temperature.
5:48, but that not the gas it made of, It Tibanna gas (fictional) which, based on its use in plasma weapons, is much MORE dense and heavy then air. Real world Science is all well and good but just ignore fictional elements (in this case literally) from a setting.
Doesn't matter. If Cloud City is sitting in the bottom of a nitrogen/O2 layer, just above a layer of tibanna, the way gases sort out should mean that the N/O2 layer - and Cloud City within it - should be under inhospitable pressure due to the lighter gases above it. (it'd be hard to imagine there being no lighter gases - hydrogen and helium are _everywhere_ in a forming solar system no matter what weird galaxy you're in, and they seem to accumulate anywhere with a strong enough gravity well to hold them.) Of course, this doesn't mean you can't have a Cloud City. It just means that it should not have been open to the sky.
why not? as long as the pressure inside and outside of a human is equal, there is not a big deal with it
And this assumes the bubble in which Cloud City floats wasn't put there with the city. It's a mining colony, after all.
The focus of the video was "could these planets/moons/whathaveyou really exist?", not "could these things exist if we make allowances for the writers' imaginations?".
I could tell you there is a planet somewhere off in the distance that has a perfect 372 day year, numerous moons, and is otherwise exactly like Earth. If the two people in this video tell me such a thing is impossible, I tend to believe them regardless of what Plot Crowbar I use to get around their objections.
aspie182 that’s where you’re wrong. Is the video limited by what planets could form naturally or are stable according the laws of physics? Many planets in Star Wars were altered, either their landscape or their position in the local solar system. And that is entirely possible according to physics.
bit of a correction, the planet Felucia more closely resembles the Sliurian then the Cambrian. they're were no land plants during the cambrian
I wasn't aware of that, thank you for the correction!
@@SimonClark I think you meant the Carboniferous period, which was the greenest time in Earth's history.
@@Zadwon shut up he got corrected by prowler dont try to get his attention nerd
... well he isn't a geologist. : ))))))
Hold on so mercury has nearly no axial tilt and venus has a nearly perfect orbit. Judging on our solar system alone there would be (1/8)*(1/8) chance of a planet having both traits, or rather 1/64 chance. If the space lady says it's extremely unlikely then I trust her, but I would like some reasoning behind it.
Technically it's ALL likely, because the universe is essentially infinitely vast.
@@hard_drive.system Well I guess likelihood is relative. However a 1/64 chance is very likely in almost every scenario.
@@volundrfrey896 Well the problem with that is that our solar system is just one example, which could be the exception. Though what you are saying is mathematically correct, we simply don't have enough measurements to concider this 1/64 chance to be correct. She also said 'nearly', so having an actually perfect orbit and no tilt hasn't been recorded yet. And in this case you might also have to consider every object in our solar system, not just the eight biggest ones. This would quickly turn 1/64 into an improbably small chance.
@@hard_drive.system Ruling out a planet for orbital mechanics that are not only plausible but completely possible is a tad, well, rash. Especially as we can observe both, while on operate planets, in one solar system. That is our own.
@@theexchipmunk I'm confused. Did you mean to point that at me, and if so, is this trying to disapprove or approve my claim?
8:14
1 trillion and i bet i'll never get a tinder match
your profile picture made me get a paper towel
Starwarscels on suicide watch.
My calculations show that coruscants population would be at least in the quadrillions.
(With the population density of New York City being used for every layer [3000+] and their respective surface areas)
Yeah, but you would run into waste heat problems LONG before that
Coruscant seems to have entire factory/exhaust districts where nobody lives, so those should probably bring the total population estimate down a bit.
@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 but not nearly to that degree. coruscant has literally thousands of layers with each layer including several stories. I personally like to think it has the heat equivalent of a black hole somewhere down in the core because otherwise, massive heat death
Edit: Also, apart from the factories they also have to be growing their own food, so it can be assumed that they have massive hydroponic systems down there recycling their biowaste in the process
I imagine Coruscant has vast spaces where people don't live. Power grids, huge biowaste recycling systems, massive atmospheric cleaners, automated production facilities, shipyards, factories, with huge structural supports throughout.
@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 If people are questioning Coruscant's existence, imagine trying to calculate the physics of Mata Nui's body
mustafar most likely has artifialy created atmosphere for humans to breath
They could separate the carbon and the oxygen from the CO2 molecules
Mustafar once had trees, so there was oxygen there. So Mustafar CAN exist.
@@mikeor- yeah but the Sith had other Plans
@@quickcube2834 Such as?
@@mikeor- to kill them all, to kill the jedi and the younglings too, but idk if there Intension was to change the Orbit of the whole Planet
you might want to do a bit more research into Naboo before saying it's possible
This needs a new Updated Version after the 2019 Movie :D
Like exagol
But he also forgot Crait
Yes... how about Cjemey, Exegol, and any other new planets.
@@schretlenaugustijn2391 no, he didn't, the movie crait was in wasn't released when this was made
That movie sucks
Endor was actually name of the gas giant, not the moon.
+Notumengi it's actually unclear in the lore - Endor has been canonically used to refer to both the gas giant and the moon!
Simon Clark oh, didnt know that
"Forest moon of Endor" is the name of the moon, but everyone calls it Endor which is actually the gas giant's name but nobody cares XD
Yup. Admiral Ackbar calls it the “Forest moon of Endor” in ROTJ it’s never referred to as Endor on screen
To be fair, one could easily call the largest planet in our Solar system "The gas giant of Jupiter" and be grammatically sound.
Fantastically done, really interesting video! Keep up the good work! P.S. The number of meme-references in this video was off the charts! Even Master Yoda doesn't have a meme count that high!
You know that the starkillerbase is Ilum in reality?
It's like Hoth, where the kyber crystals are.
Only by Disney standards, but since Disney is not the Star Wars we accept as canon, its not important. Ney, on the contraire. Its an abomination that ruins the true Star Wars lore, both past and future.
@@Ulvetann Tell me where did Disney touch you?
IT'S WHAT!? How dare they do that to my crystal planet
@@Grazzbek An very powerful iceplanet, with the force that strong to build cyber cristals, I'm sorry the reference to a planer like hoth was bad
@@blackscreenofficialmusic224 LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY
Bespin, from what I know it contains a gas used for hyperdrives called Tibanna Gas. Perhaps Tibanna Gas is heavier then Oxygen and Nitrogen, making it possible for a thin oxygen layer to exist on Bespin.
Beautifully done Simon! Missed your videos!
Guess no one ever briefed them on Ecumenopolises...
RIP Coruscant.
ikr I was waiting to hear the and they also dismissed the cloud cities right off the bat
hahaha Isaac Arthur rules !!!
Hosnian prime was destroyed not Coruscant
This is brilliantly nerdy.
nerd level: IT’S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!
Koenigsegg Fanboy just... just stop.
This got me to study atmospherical physics
People who know the full extent of star wars lore : well actually , corrusant has something called air sweepers and they clean the air in the atmosphere . Also mustafar is only covered in lava not because of anything scientific but it fully relies on a death of a jedi long ago , explaining why in the rise of skywalker the planet is now covered with trees
So that's why Coruscant doesn't look like New Dehli
@@mattwong5403 exactly
Some of the planets that you said were impossible, could be possible if you look at them slightly differently. Corosaunt looks pretty dark in the shots shown, perhaps it's further away from the star, and the population producing more heat and greenhouse effects are actually preventing the planet from freezing? You let Eadu pass with that exact explanation.
You're alive! Welcome back :')
JanetInVids maybe Baspin could had it's up atmopher blown away in a gamaray burst and . would star wars be using clean energy
If we find a planet similar to a star wars Planet we should name it like in star wars
just imagine how excited people would be to go to Tatooine irl
If any of the planets in the alpha centauri system are desserts, we should name it Vulcan. I struggle to think of many more star trek planets, largely due to the sheer quantity of them, and the fact that most of them are earth like.
Mars is similar to tatooine in the sense that it could have been habitable before getting destroyed in a extinction event
@@Journey_to_who_knows mars should be named Geonosis
We should name it the War Star
Oh wait....
“Could a Planet Like Earth In the Milky Way Galaxy Really Exist?”
Well, a rise you a somewhat counter intuitive bit of statistics:
A planet like earth has a probability of a 100% to exist in the solar system and milky way.
All past events have zero uncertainty after observed and our planet is already here =)
It’s theoretically possible in the future that we could build giant bases containing stars so with the super advanced society of Star Wars I would have given the Starkiller Base a Maybe.
This was extremely cool and very helpful! I'm trying to create a universe similar to Star Wars with planets and star systems that could theoretically exist in our own world and this really helped me with that! Plus, I'm a Star Wars fan and a science nerd, so this was just awesome all around
The water planets are interesting to me. I read a novel by Arthur C. Clarke called "The Songs of Distant Earth" which featured a water planet, covered by ocean save for a single archipelago. Seeing them show up in things like Star Wars, Interstellar and even Waterworld, or "Mad Max on Water" always makes me smile.
3:38 Very unlikely is an almost definite yes in the scale of the universe, or even a yes infinite times if the universe is infinite.
The Celestials geoengineered many planets, and engineered Star systems in the Star Wars galaxy, in some cases for very esoteric reasons, and we do not know all of the systems they engineered, or why they engineered them, so eliminating any candidates is problematic.
That they engineered star systems to begin with also means that you need to give them some systems that they engineered for practice, so looking at any systems and saying "well, they didn't do *hypothetical planet or star system engineering purpose* here, so that means that it wasn't engineered" is a meaningless statement.
Plus, as stated in other comments, other species geoengineered planets, and may well have engineered star systems too.
And, all of this is fiction, fiction that can change at any time to suit new changes in canon.
Which means all of it is bullshit, or that none of it is bullshit.
Given the last 2 movies, I'm leaning towards all bs.
@PLK88 ....you mean they don't exist in Star Wars or reality? Because that's totally different things and one of them is irrelevant
Really well made video with fantastic voiceover. Never thought I’d find something about “space” and Star Wars interesting. Amazing video.
you forgot Salucamai (that could exist)
for the new movies:
Kessel: could exist but unlikely with a breathable atmosphere
Canto Bight: Yes
Crait: Yes
Mimban: yes
Savareen: yes (similar climate to Tatooine)
Corellia: yes
Vandor: yes (Hoth with jagged mountains)
That other planet from Solo that I cant remember: probably
They forgot one thing: Planets without geological activity won't be able to maintain surface life, since the lack of a protective magnetosphere would leave life helplessly exposed to the radiation of the nearest star.
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Love the thinking that went into this video. Very impressive.
However, I take issue with wookieworld. You specifically say that in our solar system we have evidence of no tilt and perfect circular orbit. Then go on to say that the chances of it happening are slim. There are a lot of planets in the universe and that is the only thing that makes it a "maybe"?
It is canon that Courasant uses massive terraforming machines to regulate the atmosphere and keep super hot and polluted air away from residential areas. The same is probably true for Hosnian Prime, and I'd imagine that the outside areas of Cloud City are covered with some sort of energy shield (yay sci-fi magic!) that keeps in an artificial atmosphere.
The problem is the heat generated from the over 1 trillion beings and their industry would choke the planet. The heat would have to be dumped off planet for something like that to work.
Come on! Cloud city had a force field around filled with breathable air! And Mustafarian CIS bases had shield and that was also filled with breathable air! You should know that!
Karel Veliký they might have meant naturally???
But the shield went down and they could still breathe so eh, I mean mustafar
I mean, they'd have to get down there to put the shield up on Mustafar.
But wouldn't any amount of air in such conditions burn out as soon as you pump it in?
@@droidy365 But droids don't need air, so building it would be possible.
Ik im several years late, but although Starkiller couldnt exist, Illum (the planet it was before the new canon stuff) could likely exist, because its just Hoth but with some crystal caves.
The Hayden period was indeed a rough time for our planet.
You should do these analysis on Crait from The Last Jedi, Kessel from Solo, and Exegol from the Rise of Skywalker.
14:51 "Rise to the surface as geezers..." LOL
These are just the planets that could/could not exist within our own universe as we know the laws of physics to work. They might work entirely differently in other solar systems which would allow for more of them to exist.
Hey I just wanted to add. In Star wars the clone wars in a few episodes it shows kaminoo with clear skies and only a few clouds. When obi wan landed there in episode 2 it was just in the middle of a bad storm.
Star killer base used to be known as ilum. It created the kyber crystals for the Jedi and was an Ice planet
What about Crait? You should have done that. That would be interesting.
So I'm going to throw this out here just to be that one star wars nerd. Tatooine didn't actually start out as a planet, it used to be like many other planets. Yes it was more dry thanks to its twin suns, but it wasn't barren. The reason it's a desert is because an EXTREMELY long time before the movies there was this massive Empire that was basically all powerful. Tatooine rose up against this empire so the planet was promptly "glassed." This is a slang term in star wars for bombarding a planet from orbit with turbolasers. Do it long enough and the crust of the planet will literally melt, and once cooled, turn to glass. The sand is a result of the glass wearing down over the millennia.
Coruscant is stated to have atmospheric generators and all manner of other technology to keep the atmosphere the way that it is so that is perfectly feasible within the realm of star wars.
15:41 actually Starkiller base originally was an ice planet and could've existed, it even could've been Ilum, a sacred Jedi planet. The cannon says that Starkiller was originally and ice planet the Empire mined for kyber crystal, and what do you know, Ilum is an ice planet where young Jedi would go to get their kyber crystals for their light saber. Because of the ice planet being possible and the whole crystal thing being possible under the right circumstances Ilum could be possible, as for the Starkiller part, well the technology in the Star Wars galaxy is extremely advanced, I'm sure they could heat it up internally to more live-able conditions, or at very least I'm sure they had AC on the base we do them at.
Where do the forests come from then?
This is such a fascinating video! I should be studying for my finals today but this is just so much more interesting!
Angela Cook Priorities, but i hope you still graduated to your satisfaction
At the start I thought he was making a joke about how the bad sequel movies aren’t cannon but then I saw this was made in 2017 💀
The Star Killer Base was a Planet called Ilum. A snow and Ice Planet with Kyber Crystals. it could exist
4:48 its actually forest moon of endor. endor is a forest or something like that planet
With the way tatooine was depicted in the movie, I'm surprised you didn't once talk about where the Oxygen they were breathing came from, and also the fact that because it's a desert with two suns, how could Luke and his family live on that planet for years without developing a tan overtime? Especially his aunt and uncle.
while Canon does confirm that it once had Water, that doesn't help the fact that the Oxygen should be depleted by the inhabitants of Tatooine, that includes Geonosis, Jakku, and many other desert planets.
In an infinite Universe with infinite possibilities the entire Star Wars Galaxy could be real
this is actually true, and another copy of you somewhere beyond our observable universe prefers star trek to star wars.... :P
ih8TrumpTardzz 😱 I do prefer Star Trek then Star Wars well at least TNG and DS9
Io 1 of Jupiter's moons is very volcanic, closest place to musafar
I wonder if we could build a Death Star planet on the surface of Earth, and then just "detach", maybe with some sort of pendulum in the middle, but the idea being that we don't have to launch all that mass into space, nor build it in space.
My question is how did the Kaminoans evolve into their current state? I just did a bit of research and it says they are adapted to seabeds which is strange since they are land dwellers. Legends says that there were continents that were flooded so the Kaminoans had to build above the water which explains why they live above water when there was no natural land. You would still think though that the Kaminoans would've lost their adaptations for seabeds in their time on land.
This might not be fully true but remember hearing this some where. I think they modified their DNA to adapt
I think they don't adapt because they don't produce offspring in traditional ways, rather cloning themselves. This basically stops any natural evolution within their species
Maybe they were amphibious?
Really, All you need to know is that they were designed to be the opposite of Yoda. The whole scene of Obi wan going to Kamino is the exact opposite of Luke going to Dagobah.
Insert argument about artificial terraforming processes to make hostile planets livable.
Insert counterargument from Wookiepedia that details exactly when this did and did not happen in canon.
Insert me that says that SW is fantasy and doesn't need to make sense ;-)
@@sheevone4359 Insert an army of angry fans who say that you have strayed from the Light Side and must be executed in a Geonosian gladiator arena.
Also insert that one Trekkie who walked into the room by accident turning and leaving before being noticed.
@@BioniclesaurKing4t2 yeah 😂
A real life Mustafar equivalent already exist (apart from a few distinct features), and it is Io. Both are highly volcanic moons that orbit a gas giant.
Coruscant does have "strategically placed air filters in the upper atmosphere" - some now Legends book but Disney doesn't make enough good Star Wars content
Disney doesn't make any* good Star Wars content
TheManlyManMan what about Mando and clone wars s7
I called BS on Starkiller Base ever since I watched TFA. During the final fight of the movie, as it was sucking up the star it was orbiting around, I couldn't help but think "why isn't the gravity of the planet increasing? It's gaining mass for heaven's sake!"
Not to mention the amount of energy it would require to move such a massive object through space. That concept is even more ludicrous than moving the Death Star through hyperspace.
Star Wars Physics, slightly looser than real-world Physics
mihaitha , not to mention the lack of atmosphere or any incoming radiant heat as it traveled through space unlinked to a host star.
Not to mention all of the target planets going wild in their orbits and deathly frigid without their sun present!
As a sane person, I was more worried about the larger than earth population that was about to be wiped out.
Hyperspace is its self ludicrous, but within the universe we actually know they can control gravity to a great degree and rather easily. So... they use established tech to negate the effects of the gain in mass.
Also, the deathstar would have enough recoil to liquify everyone inside and the amount of energy it must have on hand would lead to a similar effect as you describe for starkiller base. Energy also distorts spacetime like mass and the deathstar has enough on hand to overcome the gravitational pull of several earth sized planets!
Regarding Mustafar, all you would need is some kind of flora that is consuming the CO2 and producing oxygen, like flora on Earth does today. So even though it may be difficult to imagine trees on such a geologically active planet, it's conceivable that something is actually living there and producing oxygen. Maybe they are flora with blimp-like air pockets allowing them to float around the upper atmosphere, far from the active surface of the planet.
My best guess would be that they had shields holding breathable atmosphere near the inhabited areas and the oxygen was imported. The problem arises when collateral damage of certain event destroys the shields. I can only assume the shields containing oxygen were managed by another system than that the duelists broke, or there was large enough reserve of oxygen for them to survive nearby for the relatively short period of time the duel took.
Another question is how Palpatine survived casually walking there much later, but then again, if anyone could survive in unlivable conditions for an extended period of time, it'd be him.
The thing about Tatooine is that it was glassed by orbital bombardment 24.000 years prior to films. Kashyyik is an agricultural experiment(90% of it's life is artificialy ingeneered/modified, and orbit coud have been also changed. Yavin 4 is a natural nexus of the dark side, it's sith temples are not just architecture but a devices that collect and use the dark side energy and also had a ship buried on it that could heat up and destabilise entire stars, so it could have been used to heat Yavin and make this low density thing. Coruscant totaly has a climate control systems, and they(and all crusual coruscant systems) are made by Gree, who are one of the first races to develop technology, and this tech is repaired exclusevly by Gree Enclave, who are a degraded remnatnts of the Gree, still having some cool tech but not inventing anything new.
Sources - Tatooine - Kotor 1(negotiating with sand people), Kashyyik - Kotor 1(uncovering the star map in the shadowlands), Yavin 4 - sith wars comics, Coruscant - SWTOR(coruscant planetary storyline).
the problem is, Tatooine's Glassing... doesn't really make sense, because not only this would make Tatooine into a Desert World, it would make it a more uninhabitable than what it was depicted in the films.
the information you've given for Kashyyyk also comes from Legends, in which, is where non-canon goes to, the actual Canonical info is that Kashyyyk was used by the Czerka Corporation and enslaved the Wookiees until an uprising pulled the Czerka away from them.
some of the information you've given to Coruscant is also Legends information, as the Gree is never mentioned on Coruscant's Canonical Wiki page, and are only mentioned in Canon to be in Outer Rim Territories
@@titan-1802 who cares about canon? And about Tatooine glassing, tuskens specificly said that glass eroded into sand.
@@AlexanderThePerfect even still, it doesn't really make sense for Tatooine to still be habitable even after glassing, even if it's atmosphere survived, it wouldn't be all but non-breathable, so sorry, Legends sadly looses on this one, hell, its pretty god damn stupid as well, and i can understand to why it was placed in non-canon/Legends territory.
@@titan-1802 i just checked and this story is semi-canonised in the book of boba fett. Thy not specificly say anything about Rakata, but the devastation is canon.
@@AlexanderThePerfect if that's the case then shouldn't the Wookieepedia on the Canonical Information of Tatooine has this, because i checked, and... yet it still says "Long ago, Tatooine was covered in oceans and rainforests, but for unknown reasons, it became a hot desert world.", so even if that was stated to be a devastation, it would have been updated on its Canonical Page.
I mean, the space doesn’t actually have an end, so there could be a star wars universe but far far far really far away from us.
Or we’re just in the unknown region of the Star Wars galaxy XD.
So you're saying that on Coruscant there's a TH-cam video debating whether this "Earth" planet from some movie could exist?
Guy Kruger who knows. 😂
If civilisations exist then they are probably creepy af like warhammer
@@Journey_to_who_knows Dude that's offensive
Maybe in a galaxy far away, Andromeda system maybe?
For me it's mostly* not about whether they could or could not exist, but whether the planet is realistic, or instance oxygen levels.
Desert planets, Tatooine, Geonisis, Jakku ...where are the plants that produce oxygen, same for Hoth and Mon Cala (although in the latter this could still be attributed to sea-plants? Mustafar...It's an one big active vulcano, think of all the toxic fumes and gases.
Of course the location within the system has to be realistic too, see Yavin 4
Plants arent the only organisms that produce oxygen though.
Those planets have barely any animal life so they dont need much support from Oxygen producing plants or organisms
"while anakin and obi wan..."
padme: ah ____ here we go again