There are a lot of them out there and, let's be honest, the purpose of science fiction is the entertain. Mostly, it would be boredom. Nothing would happen. That's not entertaining. That's why it only shows the exciting parts and not the hours of just staring at a screen.My beef is that they randomly stumble onto so many earth-like planets in science fiction.
In "Back To The Future", Doc talks about the "space-time continuum", actually he talks more about "time" continuum.
Think about it, Earth is travelling through space, our solar system, the Sun, the Milky Way, yet somehow Doc Brown can calculate the exact position relative to "Hill Valley" in "any-time continuum".
One minute into the future, 30 years into the past and so on, doesn't matter, we love the movies, that's what counts.
My beef is more how many planets out there within the habitable zone seem to have only singular biomes. All desert, all ice, all forest, all water. Earth is an incredibly geologically diverse planet. There needs to be more diversity in the design of alien planets.My beef is that they randomly stumble onto so many earth-like planets in science fiction.
My beef is more how many planets out there within the habitable zone seem to have only singular biomes. All desert, all ice, all forest, all water. Earth is an incredibly geologically diverse planet. There needs to be more diversity in the design of alien planets.
While plausible, it doesn't seem all that realistic. Earth was once an all-volcanic planet, but that was during the Archeon, when the planet was only about 1.5 billion years old (less than half of its current age) and vertebrate life wouldn't evolve for another 2 billion years, let alone intelligent life. Most ice and desert planets we know about are outside of their system's habitable zone. The only desert planet in our own solar system within the habitable zone is Mars, which used to run with rivers of water. The only reason it doesn't anymore is because it was too small to form a powerful enough magnetic field, and eventually the water (and any life that may have evolved in it) was blasted away by solar bursts.That's really only a problem in Star Wars, and in some cases it does make sense. All Ice is very plausible, all water is definitely possible as well, So is all city for that matter. All desert and all volcano is physically possible, but I'm not sure how breathable the atmosphere would be.
All forest or all jungle, or all mountain is not really plausible, but how many spots on the surface do we really see of any given planet? Do we actually know they are all one biome type?
Earth was once an all-volcanic planet, but that was during the Archeon, when the planet was only about 1.5 billion years old (less than half of its current age) and vertebrate life wouldn't evolve for another 2 billion years, let alone intelligent life. Most ice and desert planets we know about are outside of their system's habitable zone.
The glacial ice sheets did not cover the whole planet. The equatorial zone was still ice free, though it was colder than today.Shouldn't we just assume Mustafar is in it's Archeon phase? It doesn't have native life. Setting up a breathable atmosphere around the buildings doesn't seem too hard for Star Wars tech.
Don't forget Earth went through a couple extreme ice ages half a billion years ago, dubbed "Snowball Earth", wouldn't have looked all that different from Hoth.
Well, think about it for a moment. If humans went into space and stumbled onto a non-Earth-like planet that killed them almost instantly, it wouldn't be much of a movie.My beef is that they randomly stumble onto so many earth-like planets in science fiction.
Agreed with everything but polar ice caps. Polar ice caps are not necessarily a feature of all Earth like planets because for most of its history Earth had no free standing ice. During the Mesozoic Antarctica was inhabited by dinosaurs of various kinds and was completely free of ice. The only reason why we have polar ice caps today is that we're still technically in an ice age, if it weren't for that both poles would be completely ice free.While plausible, it doesn't seem all that realistic. Earth was once an all-volcanic planet, but that was during the Archeon, when the planet was only about 1.5 billion years old (less than half of its current age) and vertebrate life wouldn't evolve for another 2 billion years, let alone intelligent life. Most ice and desert planets we know about are outside of their system's habitable zone. The only desert planet in our own solar system within the habitable zone is Mars, which used to run with rivers of water. The only reason it doesn't anymore is because it was too small to form a powerful enough magnetic field, and eventually the water (and any life that may have evolved in it) was blasted away by solar bursts.
I think the biggest problem with the model of planets in Star Wars (as well as other planets like LV-426, Arrakis, Planet P, etc) is that there's no polar ice caps shown, even when the planet is temperate like Endor, Naboo, or Coruscant. And Naboo and Alderaan seem to show the most variety in the planets we see in Star Wars. Lothal seems to present the closet we see to ice caps with frozen tundra shown at the poles. But for the most part, there's no ice caps in Star Wars. Star Trek generally seems to get around this by presenting the planet as nothing more than a colorful ball in space.
Well, think about it for a moment. If humans went into space and stumbled onto a non-Earth-like planet that killed them almost instantly, it wouldn't be much of a movie.
While plausible, it doesn't seem all that realistic. Earth was once an all-volcanic planet, but that was during the Archeon, when the planet was only about 1.5 billion years old (less than half of its current age) and vertebrate life wouldn't evolve for another 2 billion years, let alone intelligent life. Most ice and desert planets we know about are outside of their system's habitable zone. The only desert planet in our own solar system within the habitable zone is Mars, which used to run with rivers of water. The only reason it doesn't anymore is because it was too small to form a powerful enough magnetic field, and eventually the water (and any life that may have evolved in it) was blasted away by solar bursts.
Not all of it, no. Got about an hour into it and I was so bored I left the theater.Have you not seen Alien?
Yep, he uses his heat vision to burn the stubble off:Just sifted through this thread, had a some thoughts about a couple of the questions posited.
I'm sure how Superman shaves and cuts his hair has been addressed in the comics, maybe more than once. I seem to remember a silver age comic answering it, though I don't recall for sure (I could probably google search to find for sure, but where's the fun in that?). I think he used his heat vision and a mirror to reflect it back at his face to shave.