5 Reasons 'Star Wars' Tanks Make Absolutely No Sense

Popular Mechanics ^ | October 30, 2015 | Joe Pappalardo

[Rebel_Ace]

The only proper futuristic tanks are either BOLOs or the tanks from “Hammer’s Slammers”.

[Charles Martel]

Star Wars is entertainment, not science.

Sheesh. Next you'll be telling us that "parsec" is a unit of distance measurement, rather than time.

[Da Bilge Troll]

"I’m pretty sure the sound is there; we just can’t hear it "

Only if it's a tree! ;)

[ozzymandus]

I seem to remember the Japanese built a battleship which rolled over and sank upon launch, and another that exploded in Tokyo Bay. These may be analogous to the death stars. I always thought the entire premise of “Star Wars” was childish in the first place, and never saw any of them.

[Jack Deth]

I gave up on the earlier trilogy of tales (Chapters I, II and III) when the transportation and support vehicles and weapons were far cooler looking (Which makes no sense. Other than a massive drop and stasis in intellect and technology) than in the original Chapters, IV, V and VI.

[KarlInOhio]

Silly magazine. Everyone knows that the design specs of every Imperial weapons platform call for it to have a single point, catastrophic vulnerability. Especially if said weapon is large, complex and expensive.

Imperial Dynamics (and a hundred subcontractors) had plans for a ten year follow on contract for upgrading the Death Star and some womprat shooting punk ruined it all.

[raybbr]

I’ve always wondered why a light saber’s light doesn’t go on for infinity?

[Talisker]

LOL, “have.”

[Hugin]

Larry Niven came up with a better idea before Star Wars came out. A metal wire one molecule thick extends from the handle and is held in rigid by a magnetic field. Being only one molecule thick it can cut through any substance with no effort at all. The wire could extend out to about 20 feet before the field got too weak.

[captain_dave]

[rbg81]

Not only that, but don’t forget the Imperial Superstar destroyer in ROTJ — taken out by a single hit to the bridge.

[Svartalfiar]

More than likely, the next 3 Star Wars movies will also have Death Stars in them.

If you read the extended universe, there's a cluster of black holes near Kessel. (Han's mention of the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs ring a bell?) Inside the Maw, there's a secret Imperial research base that doesn't know about any of the events of StarWars. And yes, they have a skeletal version of the Death Star (no troop quarters/TIE hangars/etc, just the weapon system).

[chaosagent]

I’ve always found it funny that people complain that ships make no sound in space, but are perfectly fine with the background musical score.

Or is this just the fabled “Music of the Spheres”.

[dp0622]

Well, they were completed and had horrific flaws obviously. I’ll take it as an analogy.

Not like they were in the design stage.

[going hot]

Earth bound engineers fail to take into account that this is from another galaxy, Long ago, and far away.

[dp0622]

And those things were huge!!!

I wonder what kind of energy they used to move that thing, and was it all on the bridge, lol

[dfwgator]

[dp0622]

I was 8 and I probably liked it because it was childish :)

i have no desire to see the news ones.

none.

I will see “Creed”, about Apollo’s son wanting to fight. Stallone’s in it but not the star.

theater here is only still six bucks during the day. probably mob owned lol.

[PLMerite]

Thank you.

[dead]

Starship Troopers is the dumbest weapon movie. They send the soldiers to fight with guns that would tickle a squirrel. They have to shoot the smallest bugs about 50 times before they even start to slow down.