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How did gravity worked on the Death Star? (feddit.org)
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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Even if it was massive enough, if they can keep people sticking to the ground in a tiny ship they can surely counteract the gravity of a space station.

Also, most of their spaceships have wings. We're thinking about this way too hard.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't all have wings. Only the X-Wing and Imperial transport ships have actual wings, and we've seen them fly through atmospheres.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, but we've also seen the ones that look like a hamburger patty fly through the atmosphere (and, in fact, outmaneouver the winged ones). Clearly that's not what they're for.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah yeah. Dang. Well there probably a good technical reason behind it. I'm no starship engineer in the Star Wars universe.

[–] remus989@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I think the usual in universe reasoning is heat dissipation.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The hamburger was originally a cargo ship, the one we see is special in that it has a bunch of very expensive, very powerful engines added.

It's no wonder that a street racer can outpace army jeeps. Also, they couldn't outpace TIE fighters in Ep.IV, which are known for being very fast for a coffee table.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are clearly not wings meant to create aerodinamic lift.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, no, they're meant to make the pew-pew laser fights look like a film about airplane dogfights. So yeah, way overthinking it.