light speed missile

So whenever I watch Star Wars and they go to light speed I aways wondered to myself what would happen if a little x wing or a huge star ship were to crash into a planet. What do you guys think would happen? I kind of think that the planet would just vaporize.

So whenever I watch Star Wars and they go to light speed I aways wondered to myself what would happen if a little x wing or a huge star ship were to crash into a planet. What do you guys think would happen? I kind of think that the planet would just vaporize.

MrMe1000

Who knows? I always wonder how they maneuver around objects in space (meteors, asteroids, stars, etc.) while moving at such speeds. I would imagine that the rate of celestial traffic accidents must be pretty high in the Star Wars universe.

light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

Sword-Demon

Why do you say it's impossible?

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light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

King-Kai

Why do you say it's impossible?

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light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

Sword-Demon

Why do you say it's impossible?

Explain in detail.

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So whenever I watch Star Wars and they go to light speed I aways wondered to myself what would happen if a little x wing or a huge star ship were to crash into a planet. What do you guys think would happen? I kind of think that the planet would just vaporize.

King-Kai

Who knows? I always wonder how they maneuver around objects in space (meteors, asteroids, stars, etc.) while moving at such speeds. I would imagine that the rate of celestial traffic accidents must be pretty high in the Star Wars universe.

There is so much space between every asteroid in the solar system's belt that you'd have to really tryto crash into an asteroid.

SO my guess is that it's a non-issue in the Star Wars universe.

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Why do you say it's impossible?

King-Kai

Explain in detail.

in short:

-Time dilation

-Spacial shrinking

-Infinite energy requirement

-Infinite mass

lol some weirdo is talking about how traveling at light speed isn't possible in the STAR WARS universe. What an idiot.

lol some weirdo is talking about how traveling at light speed isn't possible in the STAR WARS universe. What an idiot.

MrMe1000

I've never had physics and don't know much about it, but this is faster than the speed of light... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPERA_experiment

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lol some weirdo is talking about how traveling at light speed isn't possible in the STAR WARS universe. What an idiot.

Sword-Demon

The same thing would happen as if the ship crashed at any speed. It would blow up into pieces. Once it gets to a speed where it will blow up on contact, going even faster doesn't change that. Also an xwing is just the size of a fighter jet. It's not the size of a giant meteor or something.

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lol some weirdo is talking about how traveling at light speed isn't possible in the STAR WARS universe. What an idiot.

MrMe1000

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So whenever I watch Star Wars and they go to light speed I aways wondered to myself what would happen if a little x wing or a huge star ship were to crash into a planet. What do you guys think would happen? I kind of think that the planet would just vaporize.

King-Kai

Who knows? I always wonder how they maneuver around objects in space (meteors, asteroids, stars, etc.) while moving at such speeds. I would imagine that the rate of celestial traffic accidents must be pretty high in the Star Wars universe.

lol some weirdo is talking about how traveling at light speed isn't possible in the STAR WARS universe. What an idiot.

MrMe1000

The same thing would happen as if the ship crashed at any speed. It would blow up into pieces. Once it gets to a speed where it will blow up on contact, going even faster doesn't change that. Also an xwing is just the size of a fighter jet. It's not the size of a giant meteor or something.

Pirate700

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The same thing would happen as if the ship crashed at any speed. It would blow up into pieces. Once it gets to a speed where it will blow up on contact, going even faster doesn't change that. Also an xwing is just the size of a fighter jet. It's not the size of a giant meteor or something.

MrMe1000

[QUOTE="MrMe1000"][QUOTE="Pirate700"]

The same thing would happen as if the ship crashed at any speed. It would blow up into pieces. Once it gets to a speed where it will blow up on contact, going even faster doesn't change that. Also an xwing is just the size of a fighter jet. It's not the size of a giant meteor or something.

Pirate700

Simply getting to light speed would melt the universe as it would require an infinite amount of energy.markop2003

It's impossible to go to the speed of light because you're not light. It would have to bee the speed of x.

It's just another way of measuring time and distance. Going that fast... who knows where you will end up.

i wish i could light speed travel just like in Star Wars

[QUOTE="markop2003"]Simply getting to light speed would melt the universe as it would require an infinite amount of energy.StRaItJaCkEt36

[QUOTE="markop2003"]Simply getting to light speed would melt the universe as it would require an infinite amount of energy.StRaItJaCkEt36

I've never had physics and don't know much about it, but this is faster than the speed of light...

Xeogua

I've never had physics and don't know much about it, but this is faster than the speed of light...

Xeogua

Lets get back to the topic and stop trying to be a bunch of douches that want to ruin the topic.

Lets get back to the topic and stop trying to be a bunch of douches that want to ruin the topic.

MrMe1000

well YOURE the one trying to destory the universe! :evil:

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I've never had physics and don't know much about it, but this is faster than the speed of light...

PS2_ROCKS

Ah, didn't know that. Thanks for clearing it up.

if anything as large as a grain of sand hit the ship while traveling at lightspeed, it would disintigrate the ship. Also I find it funny how star wars lore says they have lightspeed travel, yet traveling across the galaxy at lightspeed would take 100.000-200,000 years. Still love star wars though.

I believe somewhere in lore someone used ships as lightspeed missiles by crashing them into planets, I remember reading it on wookieepedia, but I dont remember the instance it was used in.

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light speed travel is impossible, so nothing would happen :|

King-Kai

Why do you say it's impossible?

Well theoretically we could build something that travels at near-light speeds. Also, it would depend entirely on how big the space craft is in comparison to the planet. Obviously if it's way smaller than the planet it's not going to destroy it, but then again that would depend on many variables. Also I'm pretty sure the way they navigate through space at those speeds without hitting objects is with a computer that projects the specified route and then finds a path within the route which it is safe to travel, and automatically takes control of the space craft to dodge any objects that are in the way.

That's at least what I think it would be built like.

An explosion would occur. Michael Bay would approve.

It shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Light speed's too slow. The real question is what would happen if the ship were travelling at ludicrous speed?

Light speed's too slow. The real question is what would happen if the ship were travelling at ludicrous speed?

worlock77

Who knows? I always wonder how they maneuver around objects in space (meteors, asteroids, stars, etc.) while moving at such speeds. I would imagine that the rate of celestial traffic accidents must be pretty high in the Star Wars universe.

King-Kai

410 nonillion ly³ (10^32) (universe).

Our astroid belt is only the ~mass of a planet, spread out over the space of Mars to Jupiter, a space of ~1.7 quintillion m² (10^18)

And Earth's area, 510 billion m². Tiny by compairison.

The same thing would happen as if the ship crashed at any speed. It would blow up into pieces. Once it gets to a speed where it will blow up on contact, going even faster doesn't change that. Also an xwing is just the size of a fighter jet. It's not the size of a giant meteor or something.

Pirate700

If a ship were able to travel at the speed of light, and hit a planet, and since it takes ~infinite energy to make a massive particle move the speed of light, it'd impart ~infinite energy into that planet's atmosphere, basically annihilating it.

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[QUOTE="Sword-Demon"] because of physicsSword-Demon

Explain in detail.

in short:

-Time dilation

-Spacial shrinking

-Infinite energy requirement

-Infinite mass

The ships themselves aren't moving at light speed. They're using warp drive:

"In 1994 Alcubierre proposed a way of changing the geometry of space by creating a wave which would cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand.The ship would then ride this wave inside a region of flat space known as a warp bubble, and would not move within this bubble, but instead be carried along as the region itself moves as a consequence of the actions of the drive."