FOR THE LAST TIME!!!


It doesn't matter how good it looks, it doesn't matter how much you spent on it, and it doesn't matter if Lucas likes it (it REALLY doesn't matter if Lucas likes it!) THERE IS NO GRAVITY IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE! I'm sick of watching sci-fi (Hollywood or indie) that shows ships/debis falling in space. For crying out loud! Why is such an elementary fact always overlooked by people that one would expect at least graduated middle school?

Where does all the debris fall to? is there some sort of ground that astronomers and quantum physicists aren't telling us about? If so, the pile of spaceship wreckage must be astounding.
The part I'm talking about is when a tie fighter hits some big thing that's sticking off some other big thing and thing #1 begins to fall and crashes into some other big thing (12 min. and 30 sec. into the film). There is no falling in space!!!

I could have come on here and offered up harsh critisicims on all the things I did not like about this film, and I could have come on here to applaude the things I found commendable. But within the first 15 min. it's established that in this paticular galaxy long time ago and far, far away, gravity exists in space.

DO NOT come on here saying, "Hey, cut the guy some slack, he made this film all by himself!" WHOOPTY $#!+!!! The guy wanted to make a Star Wars fan film and compared to the scores of others (sarcasm in his favor) doing it he should be the most proud, but he should not expect special treatment because he didn't have a studio backing him. If you want people to see it, expect some to dislike it.

All in all the technicals we're extremely impressive and most likely the motivation for making this film. Production design was above adequate. The stodgy storyline was highlighted with bad pacing and the acting was community theatre at best, and that's what it takes to be the best Star Wars fan film I've ever seen. Which, despite the harshness of the previous statement, says a lot. You have to respect those who even attempt to make Sci-Fi fan films. The harder the genre, the tougher your job is...but don't use that as a defense when confronted with critiscism.

Anyway, sorry 'bout the rant!

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People like you make me want to hurt babies. Shut the hell up dude, nobody cares what you have to say. Your wall of text angers me, and your attitude is annoying.

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don't be such a bitch. First of all, it's a work of science **FICTION** and fantasy. In case you didn't know, FICTION means it's not real. So shut the *beep* up and enjoy the movie

And secondly, every bit of Star Wars happens in a galaxy far far away. You've never been to this galaxy, you've never even seen this galaxy, and you certainly haven't studied the space in this galaxy. It's certainly possible that outer space works different where they are. Maybe they're far far away in a marble galaxy (see Men In Black) and their tiny galaxy is filled with oxygen in space.

They're clearly far more advanced than we are, so even if their space used to be like ours, there's a good chance that all the debris in space will allow sound to travel.

Needless to say, my first point is most important, so shut up and enjoy the film.

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As another person posted there is gravity in space but more to the point there is momentum. In fact in the vaccum of space momentum would never be interupted as there's no atmostphere to create friction. Also magnetic attractioin would be in place. At least I think so.



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People are also forgetting this a movie. Its job is to entertain, even if it was not completely accurate. People need to relax over little idiosyncrasies.

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That's only partially true... gravity exists in space EVERYWHERE. Eventually you'll get stuck in an orbit around a stellar body or crash into something. You do not go in one direction forever.

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First off science fiction films are called science fiction for a reason, as we know fiction means not true then when you put the word science in front of it, it basicly means that the film, book, or what ever will be of a scientific nature but it will have some or no scientific fact. Basicly what I'm trying to say is that in space there is no sound, no gravity, and when **** explodes the flames look like a fire like silk coming at you in waves.
Si Fi films would suck if they were more realistic, Star Wars Ep. III for example, the stuff exploding during the space battle scenes would be 15 minutes of total silence and all the debris would look so retarded floating up, although waves of fire would be pretty cool.

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If a ship breaks apart, the debris is going to continue moving in the direction it was originally. Of course secondary explosions and decompressions could cause the course of the bits to alter... oh but for christ, it's Star Wars! Ships don't bank without atmosphere. There's no sound in space. What the crap do beam weapons need shell casings for and why would a high tech society have cannons that simply dumps them on the floor (Ep. III). Why do the battles take place in such close proximity when ships could be targeting each other from way beyond visual range? Who cares? It's freaking Star Wars. Watch some Firefly to see it done right and get over it.

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I bet Firefly REALLY doesn't have sounds in space to save money!

Who wants to see silent space battles?

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Any number of effects could cause that thing to "fall". I haven't seen the film in a long time, but I think I remember the object in question. Wasn't it a functioning device before it was blown off? In any case, I see all kinds of discrepancies in movies and I had chalked this one up to low-level gravitation, explosive decompression, high-level (possibly electro-) magnetics, residual propulsion (don't these space things have stabilizers?), or a combination thereof.

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the one or two other people here who've actually watched the movie can see it's not 'falling' at all. it's just been knocked off it's mooring by the force of the impact.
feel better now?

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***THERE IS NO GRAVITY IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE! I'm sick of watching sci-fi (Hollywood or indie) that shows ships/debis falling in space. For crying out loud! Why is such an elementary fact always overlooked by people that one would expect at least graduated middle school?***

Hmmmm, someone needs to go back to school (possibly middle school, as they noted above?) and pay attention during science class when gravity is being discussed.

Gravity exists everywhere in the Universe (aka space). It's a fundamental law of Physics. Your argument (no gravity in space) is not valid since it is predicated on an untrue premise. "Where does all the debris (in space) fall to?" you asked. "There is no falling in space!!!"

You are concerned with falling (direction?) but you should be concerned with Newton's Third Law of Motion: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

You said, "The part I'm talking about is when a tie fighter hits some big thing that's sticking off some other big thing and thing #1 begins to fall and crashes into some other big thing..."

In other words when the Tie fighter hits thing #1 there will be debri either from the Tie fighter or from the object it hits and the debri (small or large) will act according to Newton's Third Law Of Motion. The debris will often be directed at the camera's eye for 3D effect or it may crash into another object (maybe another space craft). From your perpective you may see one object as falling into another object.

Also, meteorites, comets and asteroids often get their start after collisions with other objects in space and they have been known to 'fall' to earth, the moon, other planets and the sun (all of them exist in space, in case you slept though that class too).

So, yes, FOR THE LAST TIME there is falling in space, it just depends on your point of view.








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Actually, there is gravity everywhere. Including the vacuum of space. It is what holds the earth in orbit around the sun. It is what holds the moon in orbit around the earth. It is what holds the Jovian moons in orbit around the planet Jupiter. Your pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses.

And stuff.

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Clearly your neither a physicist nor a person with common sense... Gravity exists in dead space, the 93,000,000miles between the earth and the sun is full of gravitational forces, the gravity of the sun is strong enough to pull and hold our planet at 93,000,000miles its strong enough to pull and hold Venus at 46,000,000miles away and the same with mercury except 28,500,000miles away. If gravity didn't exist within the dead space between these structures they would not hold in the celestial orbit that they do. So when a ship gets shot in star wars of course it's going to plummet/drift one way or the other, aye the ships are small and have a small mass which means it's unlikely to go off at any speed towards the sun if shot say 80million miles away but it would very gradually drift towards it as it is the strongest gravitational pull... I may also add that the reason we get struck by asteroids along with other planets is again gravity.. EXISTING in dead space, Earth gets struck dozens of times a day by small asteroids that usually burn up in the atmosphere all stray towards us due to our gravitational field, We hold the moon (A left over segment from earth's sister planet Fear (4.4billion yo)at 194'000km from earth again because the force of gravity existing within a planets core is just that strong, and thats 194'000miles of dead space buddy... plus space may be a vacuum but it will only act as one when there is something to vacuum, I'e a hole in a space shuttle full of matter and gases.

Take a Astrophysics lesson buddy think you will learn a LOT as your knowledge of space seams not to span further than its existance

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