Originally posted by: bindibadgi I have to say I can accept a rock to the ankle killing a stormie much more easily than I can believe stormies killing almost all the Jedi in the space of, what, half an hour maybe?
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab I think it was supposed to be implying that the Ewoks just knocked them down and the finsihed them off violently off screen. It was a PG movie after all. But the fact that it isn't show does strain credulity a bit.
As for the Executor crashing into the Death Star, I've alwasy figured the flames are coming from the masssive amount of air that would be released when the Death Star's hull was torn open. The vacuum effect would mean that all of that super-heated air would rush out into space. I'm no physics major, but... is it at all plausible this could result in fire?
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab I think it was supposed to be implying that the Ewoks just knocked them down and the finsihed them off violently off screen. It was a PG movie after all. But the fact that it isn't show does strain credulity a bit.
As for the Executor crashing into the Death Star, I've alwasy figured the flames are coming from the masssive amount of air that would be released when the Death Star's hull was torn open. The vacuum effect would mean that all of that super-heated air would rush out into space. I'm no physics major, but... is it at all plausible this could result in fire?
I’m not a scientist myself so I couldn’t answer that accurately. I do know that NASA has conducted some experiments with fire in microgravity. Here’s a quote from one such experiment using a normal candle:
“On Earth, gravity-driven buoyant convection causes a candle flame to be teardrop-shaped and carries soot to the flame's tip, making it yellow. In microgravity, where convective flows are absent, the flame is spherical, soot-free, and blue”
Different gases and different combustibles have varying effects on the shape and color of fire here on Earth so it would be hard to figure out what a flame would look like if it was forced into space by a venting atmosphere. How quickly would the oxygen dissipate as it left the DS2? That would also influence the size, shape and duration of the flame. Then we need to figure out what type of gravity the DS2 had (both natural and artificial) and the impact that would have on the flames. There are many variations at work, but I think it’s safe to say that the explosion would not look like a blowtorch shooting flames around a model and that’s what we saw in ROTJ.