" Star Wars : The Force Awakens " may be universally adored by science - fan and sci - fi fans , but this does n’t mean that the scientific discipline in the pic is in reality correct .
Neil deGrasse Tyson , famed astrophysicist and emcee of " StarTalk " on the National Geographic Channel , has hold he ’d rather be a " Trekkie . " He toldRolling Stone , " There ’s a promise of real science run on in ' Star Trek ' – but not so much in ' Star Wars , ' " although he conceded , " I clap the fact that it has mass thinking about space . "
In fact , Tyson seems to have been rather enjoying manoeuver out the flaw in the science of the orbicular blockbuster onTwitter . For instance , he point out that the droid BB-8 ( the new R2 - D2 , but perchance even cuter ) , which is a smooth , rolled ball-shaped clump , would have sputter moving around the arenaceous terrain of the major planet it finds itself on .
In@StarWars#TheForceAwakens , BB-8 , a smooth rolling metal spherical ball , would have skid uncontrollably on sand .
— Neil deGrasse Tyson ( @neiltyson)December 21 , 2015
He also get foiling with the repeated consumption of the term ‘ parsec ’ to show off the Millennium Falcon ’s speed – as in , it can " complete the Kessler Run in under 12 parsec . " It turns out that a secpar is not actually a unit of measuring time , but rather an obscure measure of distance adequate to 3.26 low-cal - years .
Unashamed of inanity,#TheForceAwakensrepeats the Millennium Falcon boasting of completing the Kessel Run in " under 12 parsec "
( A Parsec is an obscure unit of distance in Astrophysics , equal to 3.26 Light Years . Neither has anything to do with clip . )
Since we do n’t need to give away any more freebooter , if you have n’t seen " The Force Awakens " yet , go right on now and then , if you really deem it necessary , see how many scientific impossibility you could find .
In@StarWars#TheForceAwakens , if you were to take up all of a star ’s energy into your planet , your planet would vaporize .
In@StarWars#TheForceAwakensthe TIE fighter made exactly the same sound in the vacuum of space as in planetary atmospheres
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[ H / T : NBC News ]
