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Does anybody remember from Legends or Canon in a situation where a character downright stated or implied that something couldn’t be done scientifically? Here is a list of stuff I’ve gathered.

1.) Cybernetic liver- In Lost Stars, it was said Ciena’s liver could not be replaced as it was one of the few organs that couldn’t have a substitute. [Canon]

2.) Pill or injection to replace the need for water- This was mentioned in Tatooine Ghost by Han Solo [Legends]

3.) Wormholes- Said in the Han Solo comic that scientists couldn’t figure it out [Canon]

4.) Telescopes that can see people (beings) on exoplanets- This was mentioned by Prince Isolder in Tyrants Test [Legends]

5.) Matter transporter- Finn mentioned this didn’t exist when they need to escape in the Force Awakens novelization. [Canon]

6.) The Infinite Empire- Motti referred to it as (believe it or not) Science fiction [Legends]

7. Food assembler- This is from MedStar as part of a future fic holodrama about a device that could assemble a meal from basic ingredients. Really weird since they have Food synthesizers [Legends]

Time travel is possible- just rare.

Do you exclusively use this forum as a sounding board for your, always oddly specific, questions about theoretical technology in fictional universes? I mean, it's far from the worst thing you can do but I cold browse the forum posts with user names and icons turned off and spot a Max7 post from a mile off.

As for your list:

How is anybody supposed to make a pill that can allow somebody to survive without water? How is that even supposed to work?

The telescopes thing is odd as it should be physically possible to build a lens that large (though it might literally require moving stars to make gravitational lenses) it's just not something you'd ever have a practical need for.

My final question is what's you purpose for even gathering this list?

Have to agree. It's rather weird.

Darth Yan wrote: ↑2020-02-26 11:38pm Have to agree. It's rather weird.

Very interested in speculative science or tech and boredom since I still haven’t found a new job yet

Maximum7 wrote: ↑2020-02-26 11:40pmVery interested in speculative science or tech and boredom since I still haven’t found a new job yet

So why not go over to the SLAM section and ask for some links to articles about theoretical physics or some such?

Your current posts are literally asking nearly impossible questions because we don't have literal archives worth of papers on the latest breakthroughs in Star Wars materials science. The best we can say on that front is if something is broadly within demonstrated capabilities or not and that won't get you very far.

Your last list asking about lasers that don't effect biological targets also suggests that you might be lacking some knowledge needed to ask better questions, there's no shame in that but maybe check out a science channel on YouTube or try a free trial of Brilliant rather than asking way too broad questions here.

How ironic would it be if he actually works for the Lucasfilm Story Group and this is part of his job?

Galvatron wrote: ↑2020-02-27 01:18am How ironic would it be if he actually works for the Lucasfilm Story Group and this is part of his job?

It would certainly explain some things...

After all, who better to fact-check this sort of trivia and minutiae with than the very same fans who actually discuss it as a recreational activity? I've seen him do it on other forums too.

Maximum7 wrote: ↑2020-02-26 11:40pm

Darth Yan wrote: ↑2020-02-26 11:38pm Have to agree. It's rather weird.

Very interested in speculative science or tech and boredom since I still haven’t found a new job yet

We can’t answer these questions. We’ve told you this and yet you persist

Dude, just get the books, comics, etc, and fucking read them, and take notes.

Or, go to Wookiepedia and look around.

I think we mostly have to assume that the authors and/or characters mentioned above don't know what they're talking about. We're testing artificial livers now, electrolyte tablets you can buy at your local CVS substantially reduce how much water you need, wormholes are implied by relativity equations, the barrier to making a stupid-high-resolution telescope is that it would be stupid rather than impossible, there were transporters in Legends and presumably will be again, Motti is explicitly wrong about the Rakatans, and OP mentions that food synthesizers do exist.