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Why calculate it based on volume? That's what the students did. Surely, the Death Star is hollow, and surface area (times some thickness factor, because it's pr
by wisty 15y ago
Why calculate it based on volume? That's what the students did. Surely, the Death Star is hollow, and surface area (times some thickness factor, because it's probably thicker) would be better.
- zanny 15y agoIt isn't very hollow, the star wars nerd books I have read / seen about it make it out to be a few thousand stories tall skyscraper built in the shape of a sphere in space. Only the reactor in the center and all the piping for the laser / exhaust is open unused space for the most part. And the docking facilities for spacecraft. Besides that it is office space living quarters etc. It is meant to hold a million troops constantly.
- timwiseman 15y agoSkyscrapers are mostly hollow.
- wisty 15y agoOK, it might be better to come up with some scaling law. Frigates, Battleships, and Carriers will have different volume/weight ratios.
- Zimahl 15y agoIf we assume that the second Death Star is built similarly to the first one, it is no stretch that the first one is quite hollow. Lando flew the Millenium Falcon inside of the second Death Star (along with Wedge, who was in an X-Wing) and they ended up coming to a very large area within the Death Star before subsequently destroying it and racing to get out.