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[SD-Ness]

www.starwars.com used to have this thing called "Ask the Jedi Council" where fans could e-mail questions to different people who have worked on the series. Questions ranged from film techniques to the fantasy-fiction of Star Wars. However, I can no longer find this thing on the site. Did they discontinue it and abolish the archives?

Anyway, I remember one 'article' in particular that was concerned with the "sonic bombs" that Jango Fett shot at Obi-Wan in the asteroid field after their fight in Attack of the Clones. I remember the article saying that this was not scientifically correct. There was a nice explanation on the science of the issue. Can anyone explain it with their science knowledge offhand?

 

[btrboyev]

All the jedi have been killed.


Seriously though, no clue

 

[ShadowRed]

www.starwars.com used to have this thing called "Ask the Jedi Council" where fans could e-mail questions to different people who have worked on the series. Questions ranged from film techniques to the fantasy-fiction of Star Wars. However, I can no longer find this thing on the site. Did they discontinue it and abolish the archives?

Anyway, I remember one 'article' in particular that was concerned with the "sonic bombs" that Jango Fett shot at Obi-Wan in the asteroid field after their fight in Attack of the Clones. I remember the article saying that this was not scientifically correct. There was a nice explanation on the science of the issue. Can anyone explain it with their science knowledge offhand?

If I'm not mistaken sound doesn't travel in a vacuum.

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Who the sweet fuck is watching Star Wars and getting concerned over scientific accuracy?

 

[SD-Ness]

Who the sweet fuck is watching Star Wars and getting concerned over scientific accuracy?

I don't care about the accuracy in Star Wars. I just wanted to know what would really be happening.

ShadowRed, thanks. I thought there was a "longer" explanation, but this is obvious enough to be the answer.

 

[XMonkey]

There also really shouldn't be firey explosions in space either, but theres no fun in that so I say screw scientific accuracy.

 

[Scrow]

There also really shouldn't be firey explosions in space either, but theres no fun in that so I say screw scientific accuracy.

if a space ship has its own oxygen supplies, rocket fuel and then an explosioin, surely that would cause a firey explosion.

 

[Hitokage]

Fire without gravity looks significantly different as you don't have the effects of buoyancy pushing the heated air upward.

 

[Saki]

if a space ship has its own oxygen supplies, rocket fuel and then an explosioin, surely that would cause a firey explosion.

No, it would be more gaseous.

 

[Phoenix]

If I'm not mistaken sound doesn't travel in a vacuum.

In space, the interplanetary medium is a very dilute gas at a density of about 10 atoms per cubic centimeter, and the speed of sound in this medium is about 300 kilometers/sec. Typical disturbances due to solar storms and 'magneto-sonic turbulence' at the earth's magnetopause have scales of hundreds of kilometers, so the acoustic wavelengths are enormous. Human ears would never hear them, but we can technologically detect these pressure changes and play them back for our ears to hear by electronically compressing them.

There can be sound, but not sound we would hear.