Can we build ships like star Wars?

With so many incredible, cutting-edge technologies, could we build a real-life Millennium Falcon? In short, no. But we're getting closer. In the "Star Wars" universe, the Millennium Falcon is heralded as the coolest ship around.
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Will humans ever build starships?

Many other kinds of conceptual technologies build off of fusion technology, like using lasers and electron beams to propel a ship forward. Sadly, we don't seem to be any closer to making fusion a reality than we were a decade ago.
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Can we build Star Destroyer?

A Star Destroyer will cost $636 billion to build the parts on Earth, plus $44.4 trillion to get it all off Earth and to Mars. At that launch cost, it's definitely worth investing in asteroid mining and refining technologies first.
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Why spaceships are not like Star Wars?

They need to be in space already, not in the gravity well of another planet, but just floating around out there. While some necessary trace elements could be mined on a planet and sent up, the bulk of the building material needs to come from asteroids or comets.
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Is Star Wars technology possible?

The iconic status that Star Wars has gained in popular culture and science fiction allows it to be used as an accessible introduction to real scientific concepts. Many of the features or technologies used in the Star Wars universe are not yet considered possible. Despite this, their concepts are still probable.
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Could We Build a Star Destroyer Here on Earth?



Is hyper speed possible?

Warp drives are theoretically possible if still far-fetched technology. Two recent papers made headlines in March when researchers claimed to have overcome one of the many challenges that stand between the theory of warp drives and reality.
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Can we build the Millennium Falcon?

With so many incredible, cutting-edge technologies, could we build a real-life Millennium Falcon? In short, no.
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Is Star Wars hyperspace possible?

Technically, it would be possible for the Millennium Falcon to fly faster than light past Alderaan as it explodes and arrive at the Death Star in time to stop the weapon from firing in the first place. There are ways in which traveling through hyperspace would not require a violation of relativity.
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Is it possible to build a giant spaceship?

But while building such a structure might be technically possible, it's not feasible in any practical sense, said Michael Lembeck, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has worked on both government and commercial space programs.
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Is the Death Star possible?

Brooks Peck, a curator at the EMP Museum in Seattle believes that creating enough metal to build the Death Star is also theoretically possible—but only if we already have an established space infrastructure to support it. We technically do, but it's still in its infancy.
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Is the Death Star Real?

The Death Star is a fictional mobile space station and galactic superweapon featured in the Star Wars space-opera franchise.
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Is a Death Star laser possible?

Though it's not big enough or strong enough to destroy a planet, scientists have developed an amplified laser reminiscent of the Death Star from "Star Wars," according to a new study. The futuristic superweapon combines multiple laser beams into one destructive blast, the researchers said.
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Is a generation ship possible?

In order for a spacecraft to maintain a stable environment for multiple generations, it would have to be large enough to support a community of humans and a fully recycling ecosystem. However, a spacecraft of such a size would require a lot of energy to accelerate and decelerate.
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Is NASA building a starship?

NASA in 2021 gave SpaceX $2.9 billion to develop a version of Starship for the agency's first two flights to the moon under Artemis, a multibillion-dollar human program to return astronauts to the lunar surface.
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How much would it cost to build a starship?

Reaching a Starship cost of $5 million would require 3000 employees to build about 300 Starship every year. This would be $1.3 million in labor, $2.4 million in material and $1.3 million for other costs.
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Can a wormhole exist?

In the early days of research on black holes, before they even had that name, physicists did not yet know if these bizarre objects existed in the real world.
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Is time Travelling possible?

Yes, time travel is indeed a real thing. But it's not quite what you've probably seen in the movies. Under certain conditions, it is possible to experience time passing at a different rate than 1 second per second. And there are important reasons why we need to understand this real-world form of time travel.
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Is warp drive possible?

“None of the physically conceivable warp drives can accelerate to speeds faster than light,” Bobrick says. That is because you would require matter capable of being ejected at speeds faster than light—but no known particles can travel that fast.
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How much would it cost to build an Imperial Star Destroyer?

Answer by Kynan Eng: A Star Destroyer will cost $636 billion to build the parts on Earth, plus $44.4 trillion to get it all off Earth and to Mars. At that launch cost, it's definitely worth investing in asteroid mining and refining technologies first.
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How much would it cost to build a life size Millennium Falcon?

The folks over at Twizzle got to wondering how much it would cost to produce a real life working Millennium Falcon. After crunching the numbers and applying a good dose of real world logic, they determined that the Millennium Falcon would cost 1,988,348,881 British pounds, or $2,474,132,337.
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How much would it cost to build a Millennium Falcon?

Adding It All Up

There we have it, all the costs that go into constructing and maintaining a real-world Millennium Falcon. Now, the final step—adding it all together. Based on the above figures, we can conclude that the Falcon costs $18.2 billion to assemble and power with an onboard nuclear reactor.
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Is NASA making a warp drive?

According to Popular Mechanics, the NASA warp drive will expend a massive amount of energy that will "warp" (contract and twist) space time behind the spacecraft, which will create a space time "bubble." This bubble, which will be created around the ship and curved behind it, will theoretically reduce the distance that ...
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Why is warp 10 Impossible?

Our solution was to redraw the warp curve so that the exponent of the warp factor increases gradually, then sharply as you approach Warp 10. At Warp 10, the exponent (and the speed) would be infinite, so you could never reach this value.
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How fast is a wormhole?

A spacecraft could theoretically skip ahead to a distant region of space if it enters such a wormhole between the two locations. As in our familiar universe, objects in a wormhole would have to travel slower than the speed of light, which, in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second).
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