technobabbler wrote:Paul Walker wrote:I've had my first real facepalm moment:
When I saw that scene, part of me was thinking----'c'mon, space is so vast that the odds of you materializing right above a star are near zero.'
But I'm ok w/technobabble + drama = a Shroom-Warp miscalculation means hitting a star.
That's presuming that there is an equal probability of ending up at any 'in range' location. Should the gravity of an object be important, then a star would a very reasonable place to end up. And an O-type (thereby massive) star would be particularly likely for a materialisation point.
And yes, I am watching a science fiction show. I expect them to make up all kinds of new science. What I expect them to do is use the made-up science in tandem with real science. Voyager used actual forensic techniques a few times, and figured out roughly what explosive yields might be for certain explosions.
Surely a show set in space can research "what colours are stars?".
O - blue
B - blue / white
A - white
F - white
G - white /touch of yellow
K - yellow/orange
M - red
It was almost as bad as Gravity messing up Newtons Third Law twice, in two different ways