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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Sept 18, 2005 10:11:30 GMT -5
I have a problem with the whole "desert planet" idea because idea because without some kind of viable ecology nothing could survive on such a world. Where does the moisture in the atmosphere come from for the vaporators to extract?
I theorize that Tatooine does actually have seas, but they are so briny and poisonous that no one lives near them. Their function is as a source of moisture and oxygen for the rest of the planet which generates carbon dioxide and some unknown other waste products that life in the seas use.
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Post by Solinbeb Newau on Sept 19, 2005 9:35:49 GMT -5
Considering that I read somewhere that the surface of Tatooine was a great deal of salt crystals, it could have likely had an ocean at one time, possibily before it's second sun formed. At night it gets cool enough that the vapor in the atmosphere condensates, which is what the vaporators collect and store.
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Post by lazlototh on Sept 19, 2005 22:06:27 GMT -5
I would liken the ecology of the various Star Wars worlds more to fantasy or D&D based environments. They wouldn't work in real life and would be very difficult to generate a viable ecology that made sense. Hopefully as we discover more extrasolar planets - we'lll find smaller ones like Earth that may have some widely variable ecology and throw some wrenches into our existing theories on environmental development...
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Post by Cara Drume on Sept 20, 2005 0:31:36 GMT -5
Who knows? We might even find ET!
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Post by Schph Gochi on Nov 29, 2005 12:29:51 GMT -5
I really got a feel for the climate on Tatooine when I read "Tatooine Ghost".....
the book shows it to be a LOT harsher than the movies did....
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Nov 29, 2005 18:06:49 GMT -5
Sounds like and interesting EU-connection between the OT and PT movies. But with "desert" planets like Tatooine, I wonder about how it can maintain a breathable atmosphere. Something has to be producing oxygen if there are no significant plants or ocean critters there to do it.
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Post by Schph Gochi on Nov 30, 2005 6:28:20 GMT -5
lol....there could be mysterious oxygen producing capability in the rocks and sand.....it is, after all, in a galaxy "far, far away".... ;D
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Post by Seda Navilli on Nov 30, 2005 6:43:15 GMT -5
I think it would be a bigger worry to think about the massive amount of heat those twin suns would produce... surely that would kill off most lifeforms before a lack of water did.
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Post by tanzanlinnear on Nov 30, 2005 15:47:37 GMT -5
If you think Tattooine's bad, then what about Arrakis? I thought that the Ocampa homeworld in Voyager gave a possible explanation, in that there was a lack of necessary particles in the air to create moisture (although that would mean there was nothing to make the atmospheric gasses either...) I think suspension of disbelief is the only sollution
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Nov 30, 2005 21:44:54 GMT -5
Yeah, and also what about Naboo... how could a planet with a honeycomb-like core structure possibly be dense enough to create enough gravity to hold an atmosphere capable of sustaining the abundant life thriving on the planet's surface?
At Dragon*Con, there was a panel called "Burn, Hollywood, Burn". It was all about the discrepancies between Hollywood science and real science---- very, very interesting!
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Post by Starkindler (The Naked Jedi) on Dec 1, 2005 0:15:10 GMT -5
I believe either Qui-Gonn or Obi-Wan gave a brief description of Tatooine in EPI. There was something about the great desserts and most of the "water" being in uninhabitable regions or some such.....very fuzzy....but I do remember something being said.
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Dec 13, 2005 23:56:15 GMT -5
Hmmm, I don't remember anything like that. They mostly talked about how it was controlled by the Hutts and they referred to Mos Espa as a 'settlement'.
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