Star Wars Minute 56: Warning! Death Star In Area!

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Date

August 19th, 2016

In a way, Princess Leia determines the choice of the planet that’ll be destroyed first

Why doesn't Leia recognize Alderaan from space? Maybe she doesn't get back there too often.
- Maybe because we only have the one planet it's easy for us to recognize the Earth from space, and if we were more spacefaring maybe it would be different.
Tarkin's title: Grand Moff vs. Governor
- Grand Moff is never used in the Original Trilogy.
<Probably Danish> Magazine that explained that Sith were an aquatic race that needed apparatus to breathe on land.
- Is this where Jar Jar came from?!
Pronunciation of Leia as "Lee-uh"
Lucas dialogue sounds ridiculous when spoken aloud.
Referenced: The Roxbury Guys
None of the top-notch British actors get to play off each other
Could the people on Alderaan see the Death Star enter the system?
- If so, how did they react?
- Do they get alerts on their smart phones the way we get warnings about hazardous weather?

15:05 podcast episode length
Although Pete said he'd post the link to the magazine he mentioned to the facebook page, he must have forgotten to do this.
Origin of referring to the Death Squad Commanders as DJs.
According to Wookieepedia, the Death Star, at 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) across [1], is 29 times smaller than our moon [2]. That means that to appear even as big as the head of a pin [3] in the night sky, it would need to be four times closer to Alderaan than our moon is to Earth [4]. So, no, the Alderaanians would have no idea it was coming. For more information, see How Far Away is the Moon?
See the above as an Inforgraphic

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