Aw, Voyager. Remember the Voyager missions? Wow. Anyway didn't anyone notice that *their* 'star' is just a big sphere of metal? Now why would anyone think that was impressive? The answer is simple *overpowering*. This is barebones engineering. If you want to make a big blast, it's simple. ~Chara

The #technology folks see the Death Star onscreen and imagine that it's full of fantabulous gizmos because they don't know any science! They see the *size* and think, oh! There must be zillions of supersmart high #IQ boffins all tapping away at zillions of computers (that's science, right?) ~Chara

Not a bit of it. This is brute force engineering. Make a big heavy sphere, put a hollow cavity in the center, pierce the sphere with a channel for the blast to come out, and bingo! It's very simple. #Efficient in the manner of John Carmack and Elon Musk et cetera. THAT is the #Death #Star. ~Chara

And I'm pretty sure George Lucas knows geometry. The "Death Star", in other words, is just the sort of overengineered super weapon that these people ALWAYS build: the death ray. They are entranced by it, sexually. I find myself thinking of a Nernst lamp, just...a white rod of glowing incandescence.