Skywalker, who loses an arm, gains a cyborg arm, starts dressing in black, and has to make toughĭecisions while being conditioned by his life as a warrior. Star Wars explored these themes with Darth Vader and even Luke Transformed and different, and that it can be hard for them to stop being a weapon or a soldierĪnd become “human” again. We increasingly understand that soldiers who experience war come home By the end, he’s a horrible weapon that takes out everything. I didn’t always see that in science fiction.Īlso, these are stories about how you turn men into weapons. I remember how much that appealed to me as a kid. She’s the leader of a rebellion and can smart talk her way around any Yaszek: It was a movie that made room for women as heroes. Something to actually travel 186,000 miles per second. In this edition of Tech+Knowledge+Y, School of Physics Associate Professor Deirdre ShoemakerĮxplains how fast light speed really is, why it’s not fast enough and what needs to happen for So it’s no surprise that it took him only a few moments after weįirst met him to brag that his Millennium Falcon was the “fastest ship in the galaxy.” But howįast is fast? Solo said his ship can go.

Georgia Tech faculty members discuss the science, and science fiction, of Star Wars.

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