STAR WARS | Science vs Cinema

[@waithereivegonetogethelp3240]

7:25 Here's how I always thought about it (prior to Solo) - the kessel run is 12 parsecs (distance) through some very difficult to navigate space (asteroid belts, star clusters, dust clouds what have you.. ), and as we know, travelling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, so the Kessel run requires much stopping, re-jigging of navigation systems and zig-zagging across space. The 12 parsecs is the amount of 'real' space (i.e. not including hyperspace jumps) that you would have to slog through in order to avoid flying right through a star or bouncing too close to a supernova etc... What Han did was chart a new previously unknown path through this space that was nearer to a straight line, allowing him to make the run in less distance than 12 parsecs, therefore making him quicker than anyone else. Simple.

[@webdesignsbytom]

they never go into what the Kessel run really is. maybe future races are a little different. What if, the under 12 parsecs line referred to the fact the falcon flew so fast that the race courses length shrank to under 12 parsecs. The rules could be not the time to complete but how much you can speed up and reduce the distances of space. I like my own theory but star wars does not seem to be in an Einsteinian universe

[@johnmorrell3187]

3:40 The comment on Moore's Law is kind of misleading. Moores law said that the amount of transistors that could be fit on a dense microcontroller would double each two years. This more or less correlates to processing power, but it's not exactly the same. And recently Moores law has kind of stopped being true. We've gotten about as small as transistors can get (only a few hundred atoms wide) and the power consumption means you really can't afford to get things closer together. There are workarounds, changing the architecture of the transistors, etc, but Moore's law doesn't just march on indefinitely.

[@andyhowell9517]

Simplified yes, but I disagree with misleading. I didn't want to get into amount of transistors as that slows down the narrative explaining it. The units were correct on the axis. And I knew someone would say that Moore's Law has stopped being true, but as far as I can tell that's just a fear. In the most recent data I could find it seems to still be holding. Yes it can't hold forever, but it only needs to for a few years.

[@JFLOJUDO]

When Vader says, “The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force” he could mean how a force wielding sith lord can manipulate the entire empire from the shadows

[@Davidofthelost]

He was giving them all a hint the Emperor was more than a normal person like them. Possible trying to see who he could turn against Sidious and use to take control and revenge.

[@daniellehman8695]

And how a farm boy could blow up the whole thing using the force

[@bo64625]

*Next on Science vs Cinema: Midichlorians arn't actually in your blood*

[@ezioauditore1300]

Just a reminder. The Death Star is powered by Kiber cristals. Whi h are the same cristals that power lightsabers. The only difference is that a lightsaber needs a 1 inch cristal while the Death Star uses cristals that put together form a gigantic one. Meters and meters long. Maybe thats why those scientist don't melt down on the Death Star. Because lightsabers dont realy produce heat

[@matiaszanetti666]

Amazing video! Thanks for the clarity and the hard work!

[@timhutchinson3264]

:45 (text on screen) "You have to be smarter than Michael Bay to work at NASA" LOL! The best part.

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Where did this video come from! I'm just glad that I happened to see it on the homepage as I scrolled. Awesome stuff.

[@AndreJordanMusic]

Awesome! I would love to see you cover Interstellar since it's depiction of black holes broke ground not only in filmmaking but scientific simulation as well. Cheers!

[@PracticeNine]

I am so glad i subscribed back when i saw your "the martian" video. Please more of this kind of content! :)

[@Shl0kk]

Generally speaking, I use time rather than distance to describe going to work, since distance is immaterial to how long it actually takes. I guess Han doesn't hit much traffic on the Kessel run?

[@dheerajs2838]

your videos are awesome.. :)

[@Norzzak]

I would love to see a video about one of my old guilty pleasure sci-fi movie "Titan AE"

[@therealyt5725]

I’ve always loved Titan AE when it came out as a child

[@sartainja]

Patrick Steward doing the narration on the documentary about that moon the size of the Death Star.

[@radioflyer68911]

How can desert and ice world's have breathable atmospheres? That's the only big thing you missed.

[@albertjackinson]

One idea that might produce 3D video is a complex system of lasers firing into the air that produce thousands or hundreds of thousands of dots of plasma.

[@PtrOBrn]

11:44 I have sensed a disturbance in the force... it's as if millions of nerd brains just imploded.

[@valmarsiglia]

I thought for sure that Robonaut was going to put that drill through the guy's forehead.

[@jimliu2560]

So why can’t “parsec” be a “big” unit of time in the Star Wars universe and a unit of distance in our universe. Or a word that has multiple meanings (popular and scientific) like the word “Theory”- Gravity theory, String Theory, Theory that Gremlins steals my socks at night.... It’s just vocabulary/ language which changes over time.

[@andyhowell9517]

All I can say is that words have meaning. In Star Wars they clearly show that they're really speaking another language, but we're hearing the translation. When they show writing it is in the Star Wars alphabet, aurebesh. So they're supposed to be translating whatever Han said to the English meaning.

[@forddon]

Why can't Han Solo occasionally just say something stupid?

[@cbenson76]

Fantastic video. What a great channel.

[@Kamil1224]

Please do the 2001 Space Odyssey :)

[@SODKhayal]

Please please please do The Expanse!!

[@ezioauditore1300]

7:30 actually they corrected that. Now parsec is considered space. Its the route a space ship takes. A route could be long 20 parsecs or 50 parsecs. I think that the Kessel run was originaly 27 parsecs but Han Solo made it in 12 doing for a dangerous route but that was shorter. They actualy explain it in Solo: a Star Wars story

[@andyhowell9517]

Did you actually watch the video? That is literally what that segment is about.

[@elliegoolsby3642]

You gotta do Interstellar next

[@billcharts9030]

the expanse ?

[@babaka3278]

I clicked on the video in less than 12 parsecs after it was published! JK

[@dadassery8506]

Such a super nerd. I love it.

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Wait a minute, what about the density of the asteroid field?

[@andyhowell9517]

That's for the Empire Strikes Back episode! In this one they just blew up a planet, so you can get a high density.

[@albertjackinson]

3:11 Take that, iPhone!

[@ezioauditore1300]

Its wierd that you didn't explain anything about the lightsabers :))

[@andyhowell9517]

I thought about that, and did lots of calculations, but those rely on The Phantom Menace. So saving it for that episode.

[@thejammydodger]

Do 'the expanse '

[@brentpolk2431]

How did you miss a Plasma sword which would radiate thousands of kelvin degrees???

[@liquidambar3688]

Do Europa Report

[@noahno]

I enjoy your work, but surprised that in 4 years the only serious science movies you’ve covered are Ad Astra and The Martian. No Interstellar even...?

[@webdesignsbytom]

Parsecs! they never go into what the Kessel run really is. maybe future races are a little different. What if, the under 12 parsecs line referred to the fact the falcon flew so fast that the race courses length shrank to under 12 parsecs. The rules could be not the time to complete but how much you can speed up and reduce the distances of space. I like my own theory but star wars does not seem to be in an Einsteinian universe

[@PaulineMontagna]

‘As a professor, my students often get serious misconceptions.’ This means your students are a professor. As an English teacher, I get really annoyed when people who should know better, such as science professors, get their grammar wrong.

[@markgraham2312]

In Star Wars the parsec is used as a unit of distance. It's like saying I made it from San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than 400 miles. Why? Because I traveled I5 and you took the Pacific Coast Highway which is more than 400 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles. It makes sense, you don't understand. Call me and I'll explain! The Force is much stronger than Vader's use of it. The Force binds the galaxies together. That's much more powerful than the ability to destroy a planet. Again, call me.

[@markgraham2312]

@MF Nickster not in the Starwars universe. Do you know what .5 pass Lightspeed means in the Starwars universe? Do you know what the Lorenz contraction formulas are for going past the speed of light? Do you realize that this is science fantasy and not even science fiction let alone science facts And the whole purpose in stories like these be there a Star Wars, or Star Trek or any other type of story like this is to Traverse the vast distances of space in a timely fashion in ways that the vast distances of the oceans were traversed in the midst of olden time. Did you realize that?

[@markgraham2312]

@MF Nickster A parsec has nothing to do with Earth. A parsec is 1 P-ercent AR-c SEC-cond. They could have used light years, it's the same concept. It's a distance that Earthlings can understand and since the movie has been only seen by Earthlings, it makes sense that it's told in terms and a language they can understand. It wouldn't make sense to have the film in a non-human language, would it? There's no air in space. It's not a rationalization -- I notice how you've dropped your original misunderstanding (like Carl Sagan) that a parsec is a unit of time.

[@markgraham2312]

@MF Nickster Again you keep introducing topics not germane to the original topic. What is so arbitrary about 1%?

[@markgraham2312]

@MF Nickster par-sec (parsek)n. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is one second of arc and equal to 3.258 light-years, 3.086x1013 kilometers, or 1.918 x 1013 miles.[PAR (ALLAX) + SEC (OND)1.] --------------------------------------------------------- Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary Copyright © 1997 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Get some education.

[@markgraham2312]

@MF Nickster Everything people do is what humans decided. So, what's your point? 1% is a mathematical concept, 1/100. That has nothing to do with humans. Your perverted and convoluted anti-logic makes absolutely no sense, and you have deviated from the primary post as to have no association with it. What evidence do you have that it would be meaningless in a galaxy far, far, away?

[@نادرالیراحمان]

"no aliens should look human" ever watched Star Trek????

[@brentpolk2431]

SO this video is for children then...

[@rickvrieling]

Goodday

[@IzzyTheEditor]

Can hardly hear you.

[@AtheistRex]

Why are you whispering?

[@Kepler1609]

First?

[@zoredache]

Please normalize and compress your audio! Andy seemed like he was whispering, and you had lots clips that were dramatically louder. Really annoying to either barely hear Andy, or to burst my ear drums with the clips....

[@jayh9529]

Terra bot

[@rikorobinson]

It seems to me George Lucas thought he was making something on the level of Dune, what with the eastern philosophy he airlifts into it. It was a stated influence and you can definitely see Dune's DNA in the series, although only in the most superficial ways. I think that's why years later, he claimed Star Wars was for kids. People kept reacting to it like the shut-your-brain-off action adventure series it is and that was NOT what he was going for. I think George Lucas is just a really bad writer.

[@jayh9529]

You not watched terra Hawks dum dum

[@darthgzuz]

Movies can't be right scientifically They just have to be right aesthetically n visually 😂😜