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How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the set-phasers-to-awesome dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When George Lucas added the 'ring around the Death Star' effect to his 1997 re-release of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the revision was almost as hated as Greedo shooting first, and to boot was seen as a knock-off of the seminal 'Praxis effect' in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). But a debunking astronomer claims that the Federation got it wrong and the fan-boys should thank Lucas for adding some scientific accuracy to his fictional universe."

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  1. Re:But the real question is: by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Neither, due to mismatched physics.

    http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1759

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  2. Re:And So Offered Another Inaccuracy by spazdor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you must've been! C'mon out of your vault, the war is long over and we all use nano now.

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  3. Re:And So Offered Another Inaccuracy by MadKeithV · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you are saying it's an Eastern?