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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The physics of jumping to hyperspace, Disney teases their retractable lightsaber, and more Star Wars Day updates. Plus, in real space news: China launched the first module of the Chinese Space Station into orbit last week. Sponsors: Our Opinions Are Correct, Subscribe on Apple Podcasts ouropinionsarecorrect.com Mint Mobile, Get a new wireless plan for just $15 a month mintmobile.com/kottke Links: When You Jump to Hyperspace, Make Sure You Wear a Seatbelt (Wired) China Launches First Module of New Space Station Into Orbit (Smithsonian Magazine) China launches core module of new space station to orbit (Space.com) China Is Set to Launch First Module of Massive Space Station (Scientific American) Disney reveals its ‘real’ lightsaber, and it looks extremely cool (The Verge) Star Wars Hotel: It's Not a Hotel At All, It's a 2 Day Cruise (io9) How Disney’s ‘real’ lightsaber patent actually works (The Verge) "Ben" (Blue Milk Run, Bandcamp) Baby Yoda Day in the Life (Preeti Chhibber, Twitter) ‘I’m bursting with fiction’: Alan Moore announces five-volume fantasy epic (The Guardian) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cotkey ride home for t Tuesday, May the 4th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.7	The physics of jumping to hyperspace. Disney teases their retractable lightsaber and more Star Wars Day updates.
0:51.4	Plus, in real space news, China launched the first module of their Chinese
0:57.4	space station into orbit last week. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:05.6	So for the last 10 years, Rhett Allen over at Wired has been celebrating May the 4th by analyzing the physics
1:13.4	of some element from Star Wars, and this year's installment focuses on hyperspace, or specifically
1:20.5	the act of using hyperdrive to jump to light speed and the reaction you can expect inside a ship
1:27.2	when you do.
1:28.7	The scene Alan chose to focus on is from Empire Strikes Back when Lea, Lando, Chubaca, Luke, R2D2,
1:35.5	and an injured C3PO slung in a bag over Chubacca's shoulder, like someone trying to sneak a
1:41.0	golden retriever onto the subway, while technically following the MTA's
1:44.8	dogs-only and carriers rule are escaping imperial forces on Bespin in the Millennium Falcon,
1:50.4	but the Imperials disabled the hyperdrive that would have enabled the light speed they needed to get out fast enough.
1:57.6	Fortunately, R2D2 was in touch with the Bespin Central Computer, and while everyone else quibbles and Darth Vader plays mind games with Luke, R2 D2 fixes the Hyperdrive, and they're immediately vaulted into hyperspace.
2:10.3	And for all his effort, R2 is flown backwards down a hatch.
2:14.8	That fall, as well as the reactions from the others, is key to analyzing the physics
2:20.0	of this scene and jumping to hyperspace in general. Quoting Wired, when the starship makes the jump to
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