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Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jamie-i-am-your-father dept.

DangerTenor writes "The cast of the show MythBusters chat about their pasts with ILM, talk about some Star Wars myths (Can you avoid freezing to death in a blizzard overnight by gutting a dead animal like a tauntaun and getting into its carcass?) and why R2-D2 is the perfect sidekick." Not as cool as our interview, but pretty neat.

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  1. Water cores by slavemowgli · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could you pilot a submarine through a planet's core?

    "If it were possible to have a water core at the center of a planet, then perhaps, but the pressures would be significant," Imahara explains. "That would have to be some submarine."

    "Would the inside of a planet be water?" Savage asks. "I don't think so."

    Indeed, the pressure *would* be significant, and the water would either be in a solid or supercritical liquid phase - it'd be pretty unlikely that you'd find it possible to drive a submarine through it in either case, though, even if the submarine itself would be constructed to withstand the pressure and temperature at the core.

    Of course, IANAP, though, so YMMV.

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  2. Re:Sounds like a social occasion by Fallingcow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The tauntaun was already dead.

  3. It is easy to drop 50 feet and be fine... by geekoid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    assuming you can use The Force.

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  4. This might take a while by glwtta · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Can laser beams travel so slowly that you can see their progress?

    Can mobs of various primitive, semi-sentient beings repeatedly defeat large imperial armies (presumably with state of the art training and equipment), by throwing random objects at them?

    Can ships exploding in space not only make a lot of noise, but also not annihilate other ships in close proximity?

    Can you really cover the same distance in varying numbers of parallax seconds?

    Can all religion be explained with symbiotic micro-organisms?

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    1. Re:This might take a while by Forbman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Can mobs of various primitive, semi-sentient beings repeatedly defeat large imperial armies (presumably with state of the art training and equipment), by throwing random objects at them?

      Well, if they're motivated enough. Look at how well it's working in Iraq...