Did the Death Star make any sense? I think it would have been a lot cheaper and much more effective to make a lot of hydrogen bombs and then carpet bomb a planet. That way instead of destroying the planet you could colonize it after the radioactivity wore off. I think the cost of building the Death Star and manning it and shipping a small moon's worth of food to the personnel all the time must have been unimaginable.

Plus considering the wasteland of outer space and how much of a treasure a planet capable of supporting life is, it seems like unspeakable insanity to blow one of them up. Unless you want to be emperor of the asteroids or something.

I wonder if Raith Sienar pondered as much.

"The Death Star was born in the mind of Raith Sienar, who had conceived of it as an Expeditionary Battle Planetoid."

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Star

I think that totally blowing off a planet induce more fear to people of other planets than carpet bombing where you can go underground to protect yourself.
What is it to blow off some tenths or hundreds or even more of planets to get an entire galaxy at your feets ?

Um,you are aware that you're discussing a story, aren't you? Without the "Death Star," how would the plot climax be achieved? If there's no goal for the end of the trek, the whole plot line is pointless.

I think you need to study creative writing rather than logic before raising questions about fiction.

Bah! to your plot line climax thing. We're discussing real life usage of the Death Star. Actually, since it was the size of a small moon and it seemed to get really close to Endor, wouldn't it have caused earthquakes and tsunamis? That sounds like a far more evil way of destroying a planet than simply destroying it in seconds: just park it next to an inhabited planet and watch the planet tear itself apart in a few days. You could even get closer and further away to have more/less effect.

icecube;

You are starting strange threads faster than we can respond. Since I like to do things efficiently, I have developed a little program which generates replies for me. Here it is for this thread:
I've just checked all your other recent threads and the program gives basically the same response. I have no clue what that means. I'm quite certain that I made no errors in coding......

Yeah it's been a slow couple of days I should probably get back to work.

I think they've been very entertaining and thought-provoking threads.

on a planet where we all live under one atmosphere it would be unspeakable insanity to detonate a nuclear device, yet we have done it many many times.

Does life imitate art or does art imitate life?

I never thought of the gravity thing. Yeah that would mess with the tectonic plates and everything.

Hey did anybody understand what the point of Luke Skywalker was? I mean in the last movie Han Solo and everybody blew up the shield so then Lando and Wedge blew up the Death Star. The emperor and Darth Vader would have been inside of it and died and the rebels would have won the battle. So what was the point of Luke going in there and battling the dark side and all of that? Yoda and Obi Wan kept saying he was their only hope but I don't think he did anything.

And also after he beat up Darth Vader and the emperor told him to kill Vader and take Vader's place at his side, how come Luke threw his light sabre to the floor and got melodramatic and talked about being a jedi, etc. Why didn't he chop the emperor's head off?

It seemed to me like the jedis and siths only did lots of pointless grandstanding while all the regular troops did all the work.

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Ooh, err, or you aren't the real pixellany (sound of head exploding slowly) Now reality really is on the blink again.

Quite frankly I find your lack of Faith disturbing.
Why should you assume we didn't make backups?..

On an even more serious note, how do you all feel about living ontop of a giant ball of fire buried many miles below you, and with the potential to go Ka-boom at some point?

Not to mention tornados and hurricanes and the like.

How strange of an idea would it be to... build a planet the size of Earth, with an internal structure to support whatever went on the inside (as opposed to JUST dirt, resources, and a giant ball of super heated metal) -- and the external area could be used for whatever, as well. Perhaps power generators, that way you could do away with the need for an external atmosphere, thus making it a little difficult to sabotage without the proper gear to survive the sexiest vacuum of them all?

I don't like living on top of potential flamethrowers and bombs, you know...

Yes.
Good Point.
How Long?
I agree.
I do.

Your assuming that the state of economics are comparable to ours in this day and age.

Maybe in the Star Wars world, the Empire does not use currency, maybe they live by consensus, live off of the labor of others or dont need money because all is supplied to them by the state..........