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Post by darthabe on Feb 22, 2017 3:21:29 GMT
One thing that I've been thinking about for a while is how planets in the Star Wars universe seem geographically and climatically the same (Hoth is all ice, Tatooine/Jakku/Geonosis are all desert, Dagobah is all swamp, Naboo all lush and green).
Shouldn't these worlds be like Earth and have different climates in different regions? You could point out that planets in our solar system share the same characteristics but none of those planets support life. Of course, we are usually shown one part of a planet so there could be different climates. It's that whenever they show a planet from space, ot appears to look the same all around.
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Post by The Lost One on Feb 22, 2017 14:25:50 GMT
With Hoth and Tattooine you can pretend that most of each planet is uninhabitable - Hoth is all frozen for instance, but only around the equator is it warm enough that people could people actually live. While as Tatooine would be inhabited near the polar regions. But then how is there oxygen with no vegetation? Probably best not to think about it too deeply!
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Post by darthabe on Feb 23, 2017 5:17:32 GMT
With Hoth and Tattooine you can pretend that most of each planet is uninhabitable - Hoth is all frozen for instance, but only around the equator is it warm enough that people could people actually live. While as Tatooine would be inhabited near the polar regions. But then how is there oxygen with no vegetation? Probably best not to think about it too deeply! I'm guessing planets like Jakku or Tattooine were once lush green planets similar to Earth but dried up due to some natural or unnatural climate disaster. Same with Hoth, that planet could be going through an extreme ice age. Of course terraforming is a possibility in the Star Wars universe, they can tweek a planet to make it at least breathable for humans if they turned Coruscant into a giant metal ball. |
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Post by HorrorMetal on Mar 11, 2017 5:07:09 GMT
I always wondered this as well. Even as a kid I thought it was weird how every planet seemed to represent just one specific region and was geographically the same all over.
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Post by MCDemuth on Mar 11, 2017 6:14:12 GMT
as The Lost One said : "Probably best not to think about it too deeply!" However, I think George Lucas wanted a wide range of different planets for the characters to visit, and probably found it easier to make each one have one climate for the entire planet, instead of trying to explain how every planet looked the same, but people were living in such radically different locations... Such As.. Why anyone would want to live at the North Pole (Hoth), or at a desert near the Equator (Tatooine), when they could live in Oregon, USA (Endor). |
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Post by Slendered on Mar 11, 2017 19:07:11 GMT
Alderaan is much like Earth, with different climates in different points of the planet.
But yeah, most planets seem to have a single type of environment. And I believe that's deliberate.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 1:49:05 GMT
Alderaan is much like Earth, with different climates in different points of the planet. But yeah, most planets seem to have a single type of environment. And I believe that's deliberate. That used to be the case on Alderaan, but they had sudden issues with climate change there. Pretty uniform now:  |
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Mar 13, 2017 11:22:45 GMT
One thing that I've been thinking about for a while is how planets in the Star Wars universe seem geographically and climatically the same (Hoth is all ice, Tatooine/Jakku/Geonosis are all desert, Dagobah is all swamp, Naboo all lush and green). Shouldn't these worlds be like Earth and have different climates in different regions? You could point out that planets in our solar system share the same characteristics but none of those planets support life. Of course, we are usually shown one part of a planet so there could be different climates. It's that whenever they show a planet from space, ot appears to look the same all around. I think a more interesting question might be how all of these planets have breathable atmospheres no matter which planet you come from. A planet supporting life, doesn't mean we would be able to go there and breathe.
Or how all of these planets seem to have equivalent gravity. They could be half the mass or three times the mass of Earth and people never show any effects that they weigh any different.
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Post by ryboto on Mar 13, 2017 12:51:18 GMT
One thing that I've been thinking about for a while is how planets in the Star Wars universe seem geographically and climatically the same (Hoth is all ice, Tatooine/Jakku/Geonosis are all desert, Dagobah is all swamp, Naboo all lush and green). Shouldn't these worlds be like Earth and have different climates in different regions? You could point out that planets in our solar system share the same characteristics but none of those planets support life. Of course, we are usually shown one part of a planet so there could be different climates. It's that whenever they show a planet from space, ot appears to look the same all around. I think a more interesting question might be how all of these planets have breathable atmospheres no matter which planet you come from. A planet supporting life, doesn't mean we would be able to go there and breathe.
Or how all of these planets seem to have equivalent gravity. They could be half the mass or three times the mass of Earth and people never show any effects that they weigh any different.
THIS is the better question. I think there was an explanation somewhere on the internet or in the EU, where most of the habitable planets were terraformed..probably picked planets with equivalent/similar mass for similar gravity? There was also a book series in the EU that explained the Corellian system was largely manufactured by moving planets from other systems... Granted it's all tossed out now... |
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