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Ships can't tell which way is up

posted 4 years ago by Truthtalker (1870)
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That's way worse than the ewooks

So which way is up in deep space?

Weren't the ships only a couple hundred feet above the surface of the planet? Only one way to go.

I've just seen the movie for the first time. I'll take it all back, I had no idea there was a plain view of them from the planet. The first shot we see of the ships is of them rising from the sea in the direction of... up.

What a shit movie.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 4 years ago

Which way is up on Earth? If you're in Australia are you standing upside down, or is the guy in England standing upside down? The globe has the north pole on top, but it might actually be the bottom.

[–] maul (1530) 4 years ago

We're talking about "up" as in, away from the surface of the planet. Like a normal vector on a sphere. Where you are on it is irrelevant.

[–] ProgsReturn (1762) 4 years ago

Assuming that you actually went to school, when your teacher asked you to stand up, what happened?

[–] illnagas (457) 4 years ago

Implosion

[–] asom (6509) 4 years ago

But somehow that applied only to sith ships. Rebel ships didn't have that problem for some reason ..

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

In a planetary atmosphere, "up" is the opposite direction to which gravity pulls things.

[–] Volley (3368) 4 years ago

Yeah, imagine the boardroom meeting at Disney where this was proposed as viable.