Can A Death Star With A Superlaser Really Destroy A Planet?

Cynthia McKanzie- MessageToEagle.com – If you are a science fiction fan you will no doubt have heard of the famous “Death Star” that is capable of destroying an entire planet with its powerful superlaser.

In the movie “Star Wars: A New Hope”, the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, or first Death Star, is a moon-sized imperial battle station commissioned by the Emperor in order to spread fear and terror, allowing him to better control his empire.

Is such an extraterrestrial super weapon just a fantasy or is it really possible to construct a Death Star capable of destroying other planets, stars and moons?

David Boulderstone, Calum Meredith, Simon Clapton, three scientists from the department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, became interested in this concept and investigated how much energy is required to destroy a planet.

The fear and terror generated by the Death Star is largely due to its Concave Dish Composite Beam Super Laser, or ‘laser beam’ for short, which is shown to be capable of destroying planets.

It is possible to estimate how much energy the Death Star would have to generate internally to destroy a planet with its beam weaponry, “the researchers write in their science paper.

Based on their calculation a weapon of this kind can really be constructed, but it would require huge amounts of energy to destroy other alien worlds.

“Since the death star had a very large ‘hypermatter’ reactor, which possessed an output equal to that of several main-sequence stars . It seems reasonable that it can output the required energy to power the ‘laser beam’ weapon.

This is because most main sequence stars output far more energy by nuclear fusion than required by the weapon.

Since the Death Star outputs energy equal to several main-sequence stars, even if the actual composition of earth is used in equation, the value yielded is only a few orders of magnitudes larger and the death star can still easily afford to output that energy due to its tremendous power source.

However as mentioned above Jupiter requires much greater energy demands which would put considerable strain on the Death Star. To destroy a planet like Jupiter it would probably have to divert all remaining power from all essential systems and life support, which is not necessarily possible.

The Death Star from the film “Star Wars” has the capability to destroy planets thanks mostly to its large power source which is as powerful as several main sequence stars. However, it would probably struggle on very large planets and it would not be capable of destroying stars,” the scientists conclude.

In our article Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations – Their Technology And Capabilities we discussed how advanced the physics of extraterrestrial civilizations could be.

Arthur C. Clarke once wrote a long time ago that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

What to us seems like impossibility could easily be alien reality. Extraterrestrial civilizations could be million of years ahead of us when it comes to technology.

We know nothing about our extraterrestrial neighbors and we still wait for the day when we will finally learn once and for all that we are not alone in the Universe. However, when we come face to face with an advanced alien civilization lets hope we will never have to encounter a Death Star, because if we do, it will be the last thing we ever see..

Written by Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer

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