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> I loved Star Wars as a kid, but now I can't help but wonder why they didn't have a Galactic Internet to transmit the stolen Death Star plans in Episode 4. Ba
by antisthenes 8y ago
> I loved Star Wars as a kid, but now I can't help but wonder why they didn't have a Galactic Internet to transmit the stolen Death Star plans in Episode 4.
Bandwidth issues. Same reason Amazon offers the Snowball service (physical transfer of petabyte-scale data) rather than just keep everything as a Glacier egress.
- jogjayr 8y agoHaha! How about a hyperspace-capable drone then? Or literally thousands or millions (ya I get the Rebellion is skint but drones can't cost that much) of them, one to every single star system, and then broadcast the plans to every Galactic citizen? It would make for devastating propaganda.