Eleven physicists agreed that the destruction of the second Death Star near the forest moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi would likely have created a “holocaust” for those adorable Ewoks.
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In an article assembled by Tech Insider, there’s plenty of talk about what a terrible idea the attack on the Death Star would be from the Endorian point of view…but one scientist went above and beyond, actually writing a whole paper that starts with “The Ewoks are all dead.”
You can check it out below.
“[M]ore or less what happens after the destruction is that the entire mass of the Death Star simply falls onto the location of the shield generator,” said Purdue University planetary scientist Dave Minton.
“The aftermath of this impact would be to obliterate everything on the surface,” he added. “No Ewok could withstand an impact of that magnitude….It is likely that the atmosphere would be so heated up … that every body of water on the entire world would be flash heated to steam, and every forest would ignite into a global firestorm.”
Ouch. We didn’t catch that part in the animated series!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan & Abrams, features a cast including actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, Gwendoline Christie, Crystal Clarke, Pip Andersen, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow. They will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit theaters December 18, 2015, kicking off a new trilogy of Saga films as Episodes VIII and IX are already scheduled. The film garnered a record $247 million at the domestic box office and $529 million globally in its opening weekend.
