Mostly Harmless said:
Star Wars is the worst.
1. No sound in space
2. How could that explode with fire if there is no oxygen in space
3. Ships that big let alone the death star wouldn't be able to move
4. The whole fast than light speed crap is really a bunch of BS if understand the theory of relativity. Darn you physics class.
It's true that pretty much everything they show in the Star Wars films is a gross bastardizations of physics and it's subsequent terminology. (i.e. ...made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. A parsec's a measure of distance, 3.26 light years to be exact, not a measure of time. Damn it George, learn your terms!) However, some of your points aren't exactly accurate. Vessels as large as they show in those movies could be moved, it'd just take an unbelievably immense amount of power and thrust to do so. Once they got moving though, they'd be damn hard to stop. As for the fire, there could be a momentary burst of flames with an explosion if (and only if) a large enough pocket of oxygen intermixed with some combustible material, were released all at once. Said fire would be very, very brief.
For the last point, faster than light travel IS possible, even within Relativity. Granted, it takes a bending of the known laws of physics to achieve, but it can be done, theoretically. The ideas of warp drives, wormholes, and other such phenomenon have frequented science fiction for decades, but they started as real scientific theories. In fact, the idea of wormholes and their ability to allow for faster than light travel and, potentially, time travel, came from Einstein himself. (with immense assistance from Nathan Rosen) However, none of this compares to the shear ridiculousness of light sabers. I know some have already argued this point, but come on! They're beams of "light" that not only retain their shape, but can reflect other "light" based weaponry AND cut through just about anything. Ok, sure. Some of you say the beams could be held in place with magnetic fields. Ignoring the fact that you'd have to generate a field from a single point, radiating outward, and have it remain stationary without it actually being attached to it's point of origin, it'd be impossible to have it keep that rod like shape. Even if you managed to keep all of that energy contained in that field, the moment you touch it to something, the field would begin to break down and all of that energy would be released. Speaking of the energy within the saber itself (not even going to bother with how it's created), if it's hot enough to cut through almost any material within seconds, it'd be so hot it'd set the person trying to wield it on fire from probably a few hundred feet away.
Needless to say, I'm a stickler for scientific realism and logic. Not my fault, entirely. I've had it ground into me since I was a child. Damn you science teachers! Ruining my movies.
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