• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    In a real astroid field, the rocks are easily a million kilometers apart. It’s all mostly empty space. If they’d be closer they’d clump together and form a planet

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      11 hours ago

      I’m no astrophysicist, but isn’t it possible that’s exactly what that asteroid field was in the process of doing? After all, there were several “big ones” for the Falcon to land on. Especially if there are some big collisions happening to keep all the rocks from aggregating smoothly, couldn’t there be a grace period between “cloud of space dust” and “planet” where there could be a dense field of sizeable rocks? However unlikely, surely there’s some scenario where it’s at least possible

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      14 hours ago

      wanna bet it was a test site for the death star? some rando planet nobody gave a damn about blown up to to calibrate the deathstars superlaser?

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        13 hours ago

        So… Jedha or Alderaan? The first Death Star was destroyed shortly after its two three tests, and the second Death Star wasn’t built yet.

        Edit: Jedha, Scarif, and Alderaan.