COULD THE DEATHSTAR EXIST? - Star Wars Science
577It’s one of the most iconic sequences in all of film: the evil galactic empire takes the captured princess to her home planet, a world not so different from Earth, threatening to destroy it.
I want you to think about this for a moment: A battle station about a quarter the size of the Moon, with a mysterious, unexplained power source at its core, charges up and fires a laser-like ray at an entire, Earth-sized planet, and completely destroys it. Not only does the Death Star completely destroy Alderaan from the force of its blast, it does so in a matter of seconds, and kicks off at least a substantial fraction of the world into interplanetary space at 38,000 kps or 13% the speed of light.
From a physics point of view, how much energy and power would it take to cause this destruction, and what are the physical possibilities for actually making this happen?
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