Except that on the offcial SW site, they say that Blasters and Turbolasers work on the same principle, if not in the same power range.
Irrelevant. That response had nothing to do with the argument.
Today's skyscrapers are hundreds of meters high, and defy gravity, yet when you test a chunk of the ciment ( which is part of their construction), you can make a pretty good mark on a wall with a good sledgehammer.
Red herring, and dishonest. The cement is NOT a significant part of a skyscraper's structural integrity. The steel skeleton inside is. Try hitting a steel I-beam with a sledgehammer and see if you can even scratch it.
Materials aren't the only things involved in building stuff, think "material engeneering".
So what do they use? Happy thoughts and smiles?
How you put it toghether has as much to do with its resistance and capacity to support itself.
That has nothing to do with "material engineering" and everything to do with "architecture". But there's only so much that brilliant design can do. At some point, you NEED stronger building materials. You don't really think the Empire State Building was constructed with just bricks, do you?
But in ANH, when the X-Wings are attacked, depending on their importance in the movie, when hit by the same Tie weapons, they either:
A-Explode
Or
B-Just get R2 messed up, and break a motivator.
Do you know what a "glancing hit" is? Watch ANH again. Artoo was hit by only a small fraction of the blaster bolt which happened to be channeled through a tiny hole in the shield. The rest of the blast either continued on or was absorbed by the shield.
A lot of the instances where things don't "look" to be very powerful are either instances where the power levels on the weapons have been turned down (to favor conservation of ammo and a faster refire rate) or when the blast strikes a shield.
Lightsabres, Hyperspace, the fact that a gigantic laser beam makes a planet explode instantaneously, when everybody says that lasers only drill holes their width in size.
Han Solo walking with only a respirator mask inside a giant Spaceworm, without worrying about depressurisation.
Explain how either of those violate any modern principle or scientific law. Lightsabers, hyperspace, and SW energy weapons are fictional, but do not violate any known law (as for the DS blast: A blaster, turbolaser, and/or superlaser blast doesn't drill its hole only its width in size... the energy in the bolt/stream/whatever it is bleeds out into the matter in all directions, causing that matter to vaporize, which causes it to violently expand. Know what we saw in Alderaan's case? That's right... a violent expansion of matter!)
As for Han Solo and the respirator... obviously, there must have been an atmosphere in the space slug's gullet. How? I dunno. But something was keeping an atmosphere in there.
So are blasters...
Nope. Blasters are fictional, yes, but they are completely direct-energy transfer. They don't require the invention of some new subatomic particle and some new messy explanations in physics in order to explain their mode of operation.
But, on the official SW site, it is stated that blasters fire laser bolts (I thought lasers only fired in streams), that are, in Turbolasers, augmented with blaster gas.
The SW site is odd, because on the one hand, they call blasts shots "light-based", but then turn right around and call blaster bolts "particle beams". Don't ask me how that works. Perhaps the excited Tibanna gas material slows photons down extremely, similar to the modern-day experiments where photons were slowed down to tiny fractions of their usual velocity?
No, a magic hat actually.
The same one where Lucas pulls his Turbolaser figures from.
Saxton (and, well, the art designers that worked on the movies) pulled the figures out of, as you say, a magic hat.
There's nothing wrong with a person who has authority to pull figures out of their ass and/or hat. The problem arises when a person who has
no authority does it.
According to SW official site, Hyperspace is a parallel dimension.
Also works. Hyperspace travel still violates no laws of physics.
I wonder what law of modern science states that parallel dimensions will be affected by our "shadow" gravity.
Probably the same theories that speculate that there may be dimensions as "large" as a centimeter wide, where gravity has a stronger influence.
SW official site says only a few weapons emplacement were taken off.
Well, there was only light weaponry to begin with (it was designed for an anti-starfighter role). What the medical frigate lost (according to SW.com) was its fighter launch bay.
Why not blanket Hiroshima in a shitload of bombs? It'll destroy a lot of buildings.
That's an idiotic retort, and I'm having trouble in deciphering why you'd bring it up. The point was about unnecessary overkill... that you don't NEED the heaviest weaponry to destroy a light, small target.
Now, you say Vader wanted his prisoners alive, so that is why the AT-ATs weren't firing at full strenght. Oh, okay!
But, wait a minute, you just said that all the shots fired killed someone ( though I clearly remenber rebel soldiers fleeing the scene).
But, didn't Lord Vader want his prisoners alive?
He wanted SOME prisoners alive. Like Commander Skywalker. And/or Han Solo, Leia, Rieekan, or other higher-ups of the Rebellion. They didn't want to just lay waste to the area willy-nilly, because they wanted to capture some high-ranking Rebels so they could extract information on the location of other Rebel cells.
In modern day terms... why do we send troops into warzones nowadays at all, when we can just bomb the area to pieces with cruise missiles? Answer: Because a lot of times, there are some people in the area that you don't want dead.
But, wouldn't firing at a shield generator at full power risk destroying the base?
Nope. The shield generator was not a part of the base proper. Notice that when it blew... it didn't take the whole base with it?
