The truth is that the Star Wars universe has never been about scientific accuracy and that’s OK – after all, one of the many appeals of space operas (and science fiction in general) is to explore the possible lengths of science with big doses of imagination. Still, there have been various books, websites, and series exploring the science of Star Wars – and with the new trilogy and the anthology series happening, Disney is launching a new web series focused on the science of the galaxy far, far away.
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As announced in the video above (starting around the 1:50 mark), Science and Star Wars will delve into the science of the franchise and how it relates to actual scientific breakthroughs in the real world. Presented by Anthony Carboni and and sponsored by IBM, the series will feature researchers, scientists, and very special guest stars, such as Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels. All of them will come together to explain and demonstrate how close the real world science has come to some elements from Star Wars technology – such as blasters, droids, land speeders, and (of course) lightsabers.
Back in 2005, Discovery Channel produced the documentary miniseries Science of Star Wars, which explored and discussed various aspects of Star Wars from a scientific perspective. Technology has come a long way since that series first aired, so there are new technological and scientific advances to discuss and apply to this universe – for instance, we are getting dangerously close to having blasters.
Science and Star Wars will run exclusively on Facebook and while neither the Star Wars Show nor the trailer give a release date, fans can expect an official announcement in the coming days. Star Wars fans and science enthusiasts will most likely enjoy comparing this new advances with the previous series (as well as books like The Science of Star Wars, published in 1999) to see how close (or, who knows, how farther) we are to owning land speeders and personal droids – among many other interesting things.
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Source: Star Wars