Planets, yes. But the difference with latitude should be a lot less on moons - tidal heating plus reflected radiation from more diffuse angles. So Endor is safe.
Perhaps the thrusters accelerate the air as reaction mass, and function as highly-advanced ion engines in space needing minimal reaction mass? The biggest magic science thing in the suit is the power supply, and it's been expressly covered on a few occasions that there is exactly one man on earth who knows how to build it - and he is inside the suit. He also wants to keep it that way.
The only real rule for this is that the aliens need a human-like face and human voice for empathy. So long as you have that bit to trigger human social responses, the rest is less important. See Farscape for an example of high non-humanoid characters can work effectively so long as they have human-like faces. They have a 2ft froggish-type-thing, as well as a much larger than human crab-like thing.
Humans evolved in an environment where they were competing both with other tribes and with other individuals within the tribe. This has lead to instincts towards a conflicted morality - we are loyal to our social group and do what we can to advance them collectively at the expense of other groups, but we are also loyal to ourselves and will happily stab other group members in the back of the personal gain is sufficient.
Now imagine a species that evolved as a hive. The hives compete with each other - but the workers within a hive don't. They have no personal reproductive stake, they advance their genes only by aiding the entire hive. That means they don't get personal greed, or lust for power, or lust at all, or quest for social status. Everything in the instincts cries out to help their hive. Only their hive though - outsiders are expendable. Such a civilisation could be unified in ways unimaginable to humans - picture an entire planet working as one, all cooperating. No war, no conflict, practically no crime.
Until they make first contact. Humans may be confused to find a planet that seems to remarkably peaceful among their own kind yet is also so willing to wage genocidal war against another species at the drop of a hat.
Seven also has a brain full of borg augments, and is in the habit of hooking said brain directly up to the ship computer for a boost. At one point she overdid it and flooded herself with so much information it overwhelmed her pattern recognition and induced paranoid delusions for an episode.
A pattern here is that captains seek out the absolute best-of-the-best super-elite as science officers - people of a level of intellect that would be unattainable to any regular human.
One problem I had with Enterprise was the general idiocy of the crew. I don't expect characters in that situation to have human weaknesses - I expect the crew to be the very best earth has to offer, all leading experts in their field with many years of experience serving about spacecraft. The captain should be a trained and experienced diplomat, not an Archer who can't manage to set foot on a planet without offending an entire civilisation somehow and happily divulges military secrets of an allied power because he doesn't like them.
They also had the handy advantage that the gate builders had only put gates on those planets they deemed sufficiently habitable to justify the expense of hooking up to the transportation network.
Notable exception: Gas giant moons. Heating is via internal effects, not purely solar, and much of their light is reflected from the host, which should allow for a much more uniform climate. I'm thinking the forest moons of Endor and Pandora.
There's a similar attack at one point in the Uplift series where a ship is attacked with a continuous laser, intending to heat it up until it can no longer function. The protagonists realise that this is a highly unusual weapon and yet also highly effective against them - but if it is so powerful, why is it not in routine use for ship-to-ship combat? So they consult their ship library and look through some history texts for anything on the use of lasers in ship-to-ship combat, and quickly determine why: The weapon is only powerful against unprepared ships, but is trivial to counteract. So they perform some hasty in-flight reconfiguration of the ship, turn one side reflective white, and turn that side towards the laser.
Hyperspace doesn't let you just accelerate really fast: You come out going the same rate you went in. If you crashed in hyperspace on a planet you'd leave a big crater, but it wouldn't be relativistic.
A kinetic impactor would take a very long time to utilise - you have to strap engines to a big rock, with associated hyperspace drive and power systems, and you only get to use it once. The Death Star is a reusable superweapon - the only limiting factor is the travel time between planets. Whoever commands one of those could wipe out three civilisations before breakfast - or rule the galaxy by fear. It's also capable of less-than-world-destroying projection of power, as it's also a carrier for a vast number of smaller craft. Note that the rebel fleet never stood a chance of defeating the first death star without a desperate long-shot attack on a weak point, and they were hard-pressed to just survive against the second even in half-completed state. Neither case because of the superweapon, but because the death star is the flagship and carrier for a whole fleet-in-a-ball.
The trench was for the fighter bays, and recessed to provide protection for them - the Death Star was a planet-destroying superweapon but had very little ship-to-ship combat capability, and depended upon vast numbers of fighters housed within for defence. It's designed for ships to fly through, sheltering them from long-range fire until they reach the point on the circumference where they are closest to the action.
The exhaust port was just idiotic design. A flaw they fixed on the second version.
The first Death Star did have an FTL drive, but - as was seen when the Falcon was fleeing - those hyperspace engines can't just be fired up in an instant. They need time to ready. The second was incomplete, and they had carefully chosen a secluded spot in the middle of nowhere for construction - in orbit around Endor, a world known throughout the galaxy as 'that place with the trees.'
The missing in the rescue may well be under orders - but what about on Endor? They remain useless shots there two, managing to get in about three hits during the entire battle, and none of those a kill.
It has other advantages. Look how many globs they fire. No hesitation, no reloading, no worry about ammunition use. The guns must be able to hold enough charge for so many shots that the combatant never needs to worry about running out of ammo. The standard blaster tactic doesn't need very good aim - put enough shots in the air and one of them is going to hit.
Moon has an advantage that the science is of very little importance to the plot. All that matters is that there is Stuff on the moon, and he is there to get it. With The Island, sciency nonsense is more critical to the story. Not the organ bank part - that's perfectly within the realms of acceptable movie science. Even the accelerated growth. But then you get on to his psychic memory powers, and even the audience can tell that bit is nonsense.
Partially for the absolutely awful science. Partially because it's a blatant but unacknowledged rip-off of 'Parts,' a much older and lower-budget film.
The system in minority report worked because they had a magic machine to view the future without error. If such a machine actually existed in the real world, a pre-crime department would be a great idea. The obvious problem is that such a machine doesn't exist, so the police have to make do with informed guesses about who is most likely to commit a crime - and they will be wrong, frequently.
Cities could use the sex offender trick. No brothels within 400m of any church, school, shopping mall, ice rink, park, daycare center, stop on any school bus route, or hospital. What, the entire city is within at least one of those exclusion zones? Guess you can't have your brothel then.
It's also illegal in the UK to run any premises to use as a place of prostitution, or to live off the proceeds of another person's prostitution. That makes it impossible for prostitutes to work together, so it's still a risky business. They have to work alone.
And Argentina claims the Falklands. What eventually determined control of the islands wasn't any sort of legal code: It was being defeated militarily. If they had a good enough navy to beat the British, they'd have the islands right now. International law, like all law, ceases to exist if it cannot be enforced. This includes territorial claims.
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Planets, yes. But the difference with latitude should be a lot less on moons - tidal heating plus reflected radiation from more diffuse angles. So Endor is safe.
Perhaps the thrusters accelerate the air as reaction mass, and function as highly-advanced ion engines in space needing minimal reaction mass? The biggest magic science thing in the suit is the power supply, and it's been expressly covered on a few occasions that there is exactly one man on earth who knows how to build it - and he is inside the suit. He also wants to keep it that way.
The only real rule for this is that the aliens need a human-like face and human voice for empathy. So long as you have that bit to trigger human social responses, the rest is less important. See Farscape for an example of high non-humanoid characters can work effectively so long as they have human-like faces. They have a 2ft froggish-type-thing, as well as a much larger than human crab-like thing.
No need for that.
Humans evolved in an environment where they were competing both with other tribes and with other individuals within the tribe. This has lead to instincts towards a conflicted morality - we are loyal to our social group and do what we can to advance them collectively at the expense of other groups, but we are also loyal to ourselves and will happily stab other group members in the back of the personal gain is sufficient.
Now imagine a species that evolved as a hive. The hives compete with each other - but the workers within a hive don't. They have no personal reproductive stake, they advance their genes only by aiding the entire hive. That means they don't get personal greed, or lust for power, or lust at all, or quest for social status. Everything in the instincts cries out to help their hive. Only their hive though - outsiders are expendable. Such a civilisation could be unified in ways unimaginable to humans - picture an entire planet working as one, all cooperating. No war, no conflict, practically no crime.
Until they make first contact. Humans may be confused to find a planet that seems to remarkably peaceful among their own kind yet is also so willing to wage genocidal war against another species at the drop of a hat.
Seven also has a brain full of borg augments, and is in the habit of hooking said brain directly up to the ship computer for a boost. At one point she overdid it and flooded herself with so much information it overwhelmed her pattern recognition and induced paranoid delusions for an episode.
A pattern here is that captains seek out the absolute best-of-the-best super-elite as science officers - people of a level of intellect that would be unattainable to any regular human.
One problem I had with Enterprise was the general idiocy of the crew. I don't expect characters in that situation to have human weaknesses - I expect the crew to be the very best earth has to offer, all leading experts in their field with many years of experience serving about spacecraft. The captain should be a trained and experienced diplomat, not an Archer who can't manage to set foot on a planet without offending an entire civilisation somehow and happily divulges military secrets of an allied power because he doesn't like them.
They also had the handy advantage that the gate builders had only put gates on those planets they deemed sufficiently habitable to justify the expense of hooking up to the transportation network.
Notable exception: Gas giant moons. Heating is via internal effects, not purely solar, and much of their light is reflected from the host, which should allow for a much more uniform climate. I'm thinking the forest moons of Endor and Pandora.
There's a similar attack at one point in the Uplift series where a ship is attacked with a continuous laser, intending to heat it up until it can no longer function. The protagonists realise that this is a highly unusual weapon and yet also highly effective against them - but if it is so powerful, why is it not in routine use for ship-to-ship combat? So they consult their ship library and look through some history texts for anything on the use of lasers in ship-to-ship combat, and quickly determine why: The weapon is only powerful against unprepared ships, but is trivial to counteract. So they perform some hasty in-flight reconfiguration of the ship, turn one side reflective white, and turn that side towards the laser.
Hyperspace doesn't let you just accelerate really fast: You come out going the same rate you went in. If you crashed in hyperspace on a planet you'd leave a big crater, but it wouldn't be relativistic.
A kinetic impactor would take a very long time to utilise - you have to strap engines to a big rock, with associated hyperspace drive and power systems, and you only get to use it once. The Death Star is a reusable superweapon - the only limiting factor is the travel time between planets. Whoever commands one of those could wipe out three civilisations before breakfast - or rule the galaxy by fear. It's also capable of less-than-world-destroying projection of power, as it's also a carrier for a vast number of smaller craft. Note that the rebel fleet never stood a chance of defeating the first death star without a desperate long-shot attack on a weak point, and they were hard-pressed to just survive against the second even in half-completed state. Neither case because of the superweapon, but because the death star is the flagship and carrier for a whole fleet-in-a-ball.
The trench was for the fighter bays, and recessed to provide protection for them - the Death Star was a planet-destroying superweapon but had very little ship-to-ship combat capability, and depended upon vast numbers of fighters housed within for defence. It's designed for ships to fly through, sheltering them from long-range fire until they reach the point on the circumference where they are closest to the action.
The exhaust port was just idiotic design. A flaw they fixed on the second version.
The first Death Star did have an FTL drive, but - as was seen when the Falcon was fleeing - those hyperspace engines can't just be fired up in an instant. They need time to ready. The second was incomplete, and they had carefully chosen a secluded spot in the middle of nowhere for construction - in orbit around Endor, a world known throughout the galaxy as 'that place with the trees.'
The missing in the rescue may well be under orders - but what about on Endor? They remain useless shots there two, managing to get in about three hits during the entire battle, and none of those a kill.
It has other advantages. Look how many globs they fire. No hesitation, no reloading, no worry about ammunition use. The guns must be able to hold enough charge for so many shots that the combatant never needs to worry about running out of ammo. The standard blaster tactic doesn't need very good aim - put enough shots in the air and one of them is going to hit.
It's all glucose once your enzymes are done with it.
Moon has an advantage that the science is of very little importance to the plot. All that matters is that there is Stuff on the moon, and he is there to get it. With The Island, sciency nonsense is more critical to the story. Not the organ bank part - that's perfectly within the realms of acceptable movie science. Even the accelerated growth. But then you get on to his psychic memory powers, and even the audience can tell that bit is nonsense.
Partially for the absolutely awful science. Partially because it's a blatant but unacknowledged rip-off of 'Parts,' a much older and lower-budget film.
The system in minority report worked because they had a magic machine to view the future without error. If such a machine actually existed in the real world, a pre-crime department would be a great idea. The obvious problem is that such a machine doesn't exist, so the police have to make do with informed guesses about who is most likely to commit a crime - and they will be wrong, frequently.
"Most prostitutes aren't doing it because they want to, they're doing it because their either forced or it's the only way to make ends meet."
I belive this is known as 'employment.'
Cities could use the sex offender trick. No brothels within 400m of any church, school, shopping mall, ice rink, park, daycare center, stop on any school bus route, or hospital. What, the entire city is within at least one of those exclusion zones? Guess you can't have your brothel then.
Not all, but the majority are.
I believe the problem is fucking.
Some people object to it on principle.
Child labor law. It exists. If you want to hire children for your driveway clearance business, you'll probably run in to it.
It's also illegal in the UK to run any premises to use as a place of prostitution, or to live off the proceeds of another person's prostitution. That makes it impossible for prostitutes to work together, so it's still a risky business. They have to work alone.
I've debated a lot of pro-life people, and many of them - including the Catholic church - do oppose PGD for Huntingtons.
Nazi eugenics was incompetent. They had a poor understanding of science and cared little even about that - it was driven by political concerns only.
The UK's socialist NHS is beating the US on every metric of medical provision, with the exception of cancer survival rate.
And Argentina claims the Falklands. What eventually determined control of the islands wasn't any sort of legal code: It was being defeated militarily. If they had a good enough navy to beat the British, they'd have the islands right now. International law, like all law, ceases to exist if it cannot be enforced. This includes territorial claims.