7:25 Here's how I always thought about it (prior to Solo) - the kessel run is 12 parsecs (distance) through some very difficult to navigate space (asteroid belts, star clusters, dust clouds what have you.. ), and as we know, travelling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, so the Kessel run requires much stopping, re-jigging of navigation systems and zig-zagging across space. The 12 parsecs is the amount of 'real' space (i.e. not including hyperspace jumps) that you would have to slog through in order to avoid flying right through a star or bouncing too close to a supernova etc... What Han did was chart a new previously unknown path through this space that was nearer to a straight line, allowing him to make the run in less distance than 12 parsecs, therefore making him quicker than anyone else. Simple.

3:40 The comment on Moore's Law is kind of misleading. Moores law said that the amount of transistors that could be fit on a dense microcontroller would double each two years. This more or less correlates to processing power, but it's not exactly the same. And recently Moores law has kind of stopped being true. We've gotten about as small as transistors can get (only a few hundred atoms wide) and the power consumption means you really can't afford to get things closer together. There are workarounds, changing the architecture of the transistors, etc, but Moore's law doesn't just march on indefinitely.

When Vader says, “The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force” he could mean how a force wielding sith lord can manipulate the entire empire from the shadows

*Next on Science vs Cinema: Midichlorians arn't actually in your blood*

Amazing video! Thanks for the clarity and the hard work!

Just a reminder. The Death Star is powered by Kiber cristals. Whi h are the same cristals that power lightsabers. The only difference is that a lightsaber needs a 1 inch cristal while the Death Star uses cristals that put together form a gigantic one. Meters and meters long. Maybe thats why those scientist don't melt down on the Death Star. Because lightsabers dont realy produce heat

Where did this video come from! I'm just glad that I happened to see it on the homepage as I scrolled. Awesome stuff.

:45 (text on screen) "You have to be smarter than Michael Bay to work at NASA" LOL! The best part.

Awesome! I would love to see you cover Interstellar since it's depiction of black holes broke ground not only in filmmaking but scientific simulation as well. Cheers!

I am so glad i subscribed back when i saw your "the martian" video. Please more of this kind of content! :)

How can desert and ice world's have breathable atmospheres? That's the only big thing you missed.

Generally speaking, I use time rather than distance to describe going to work, since distance is immaterial to how long it actually takes. I guess Han doesn't hit much traffic on the Kessel run?

Fantastic video. What a great channel.

So why can’t “parsec” be a “big” unit of time in the Star Wars universe and a unit of distance in our universe. Or a word that has multiple meanings (popular and scientific) like the word “Theory”- Gravity theory, String Theory, Theory that Gremlins steals my socks at night.... It’s just vocabulary/ language which changes over time.

your videos are awesome.. :)

Patrick Steward doing the narration on the documentary about that moon the size of the Death Star.

11:44 I have sensed a disturbance in the force... it's as if millions of nerd brains just imploded.

I would love to see a video about one of my old guilty pleasure sci-fi movie "Titan AE"

One idea that might produce 3D video is a complex system of lasers firing into the air that produce thousands or hundreds of thousands of dots of plasma.

I thought for sure that Robonaut was going to put that drill through the guy's forehead.

Please do the 2001 Space Odyssey :)

Please please please do The Expanse!!

the expanse ?

You gotta do Interstellar next

Do Europa Report

3:11 Take that, iPhone!

Such a super nerd. I love it.

Its wierd that you didn't explain anything about the lightsabers :))

Do 'the expanse '

Wait a minute, what about the density of the asteroid field?

I clicked on the video in less than 12 parsecs after it was published! JK

7:30 actually they corrected that. Now parsec is considered space. Its the route a space ship takes. A route could be long 20 parsecs or 50 parsecs. I think that the Kessel run was originaly 27 parsecs but Han Solo made it in 12 doing for a dangerous route but that was shorter. They actualy explain it in Solo: a Star Wars story

How did you miss a Plasma sword which would radiate thousands of kelvin degrees???

I enjoy your work, but surprised that in 4 years the only serious science movies you’ve covered are Ad Astra and The Martian. No Interstellar even...?

Parsecs! they never go into what the Kessel run really is. maybe future races are a little different. What if, the under 12 parsecs line referred to the fact the falcon flew so fast that the race courses length shrank to under 12 parsecs. The rules could be not the time to complete but how much you can speed up and reduce the distances of space. I like my own theory but star wars does not seem to be in an Einsteinian universe

‘As a professor, my students often get serious misconceptions.’ This means your students are a professor. As an English teacher, I get really annoyed when people who should know better, such as science professors, get their grammar wrong.

In Star Wars the parsec is used as a unit of distance. It's like saying I made it from San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than 400 miles. Why? Because I traveled I5 and you took the Pacific Coast Highway which is more than 400 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles. It makes sense, you don't understand. Call me and I'll explain! The Force is much stronger than Vader's use of it. The Force binds the galaxies together. That's much more powerful than the ability to destroy a planet. Again, call me.

Goodday

"no aliens should look human" ever watched Star Trek????

SO this video is for children then...

First?

Can hardly hear you.

Terra bot

You not watched terra Hawks dum dum

Why are you whispering?

Please normalize and compress your audio! Andy seemed like he was whispering, and you had lots clips that were dramatically louder. Really annoying to either barely hear Andy, or to burst my ear drums with the clips....

Movies can't be right scientifically They just have to be right aesthetically n visually 😂😜

It seems to me George Lucas thought he was making something on the level of Dune, what with the eastern philosophy he airlifts into it. It was a stated influence and you can definitely see Dune's DNA in the series, although only in the most superficial ways. I think that's why years later, he claimed Star Wars was for kids. People kept reacting to it like the shut-your-brain-off action adventure series it is and that was NOT what he was going for. I think George Lucas is just a really bad writer.