The first OK Go video where the music is as good as the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmxMuW6Fsc
Normally I think the video is good but the music forgettable, but this is a solid track!
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Yeah. This is one of their songs I’d listen to on my phone or while I’m working: not just while I’m watching it.
Check out Jim Davis’ hilariously awful PSA.
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The latest subject from Extra History is the Christmas Truce during WWI. Today’s episode consists of soldiers who wrote letters to their loved ones while in the trenches.
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Man I meant to write something about that for the History thread and just didn’t get around to it.
Other than aesthetics is there really a reason for the death star to be a sphere? It probably could have been more efficient to make it as a cylinder.
Aesthetics and intimidation factor shouldn’t be overlooked though. The power of the Death Star isn’t just its ability to destroy entire planets, but it’s also the fear it produces in people in order to keep them in line.
The Empire in general uses this to its advantage in most of its ship designs. From Star Destroyers down to individual TIE fighters, the Empire uses intimidation and fear just as much as raw firepower.
Cylinders are scary.
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Eh, but to quote Obiwan: “That’s no moon… it’s a space station!”
There is something just terrifying about something the size of a moon, the mass and shape of it, that a massive cylinder just doesn’t have.
Spheres are the most efficient volumes. But it does make for funny habitable volumes.
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Something as large as a Death Star probably also has a non-insignificant gravitational field. A spherical shape would result in more or less identical gravitational field strength along the surface, which may simplify the engineering behind whatever structure is used to support all its mass.
Somehow, I envision the interior habitable space as looking like a pair of cakes stacked bottom to bottom which the extra space near the surface being used for things like power conduits, environmental ductwork, etc.
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