A Real Space Battle Wouldn’t Look Anything Like The Movies

In the event that we ever cease up going toe - to - toe in outer space , it turns out that thing would n’t look anything like Star Wars . No , an actual space battle would belike be very fast , very dull , and extremely quiet , as PBS points out .

In an sequence of the online series It ’s alright To Be voguish , PBS ’s Joe Hanson runs through some of the problems with infinite combat that you might not have recall about . manoeuvre ? unmanageable , thanks to the scarcity of fuel in space , and the problem of turning around . Laser weapons ? Energy pig , and invisible to boot ( although the feasibility of blood plasma bolts is given a fille ) .

Whichever way you look at it , it ’s fairly clear that an literal blank space battle would look radically dissimilar to the movies — something that becomes obvious when you realize that Star Wars was actually base on WWII dogfights , rather than realism . [ YouTubeviaNeatorama ]