> A few of the gripes I had about this movie, though, have to deal
> with geeky stuff like physics in outer space. Since there's no air,
> and no gravity, there should be no g-forces, yes Obi-Wan reacts
> to G-forces at one point.

Micheal beat me to this one. I've read that g-forces are the major limiting factor on designs for near-light speed spacecraft in the real world. You can accelerate up to nearly light speed, but if you have humans on board, you have to do it relatively slowly so the g-forces don't kill them. REAL WORLD EXAMPLE!

> There is no air in space, so there
> should be no need to have drag fins on a pre-star destroyer star
> destroyer.

The Star Destroyers from episodes 4, 5, and 6 were all built on planets and then lifted off the surface with anti-gravity units of some sort -- apparently one of the novels I have not read even talks about how the Rebels noticed the shortage of these anti-grav units during the time when the Executor was being built, but didn't know why. (The thing was so freaking massive that the Imperials had to buy pretty much every one of the units that was available at the time.) I would assume that an early ISD would also have been built planetside, and maybe the anti-grav technology wasn't available yet, so they had to fly it up? Or maybe it was designed to be able to return to atmosphere? Anyway, those would be my logical guesses for why it would need drag fins. Not that I've seen the movie yet. How did you manage it?

> I don't think gravity would slip around on a crashing
> starship, since, in space, where there is no gravity, the artificial
> gravity of the ship would keep your feet on the ground anyway.

Maybe the artifical gravity units malfunctioned for the same reasons that the ship is crashing (whatever those are).

> Also, droids getting pulled off of fighters because of the speed
> the fighter is traveling has no bearing when there's no air to
> drag the droid off.

Again, Michael beat. I still want to use my analogy, though. If you grab on to my car by the edge of the open window, and can't manage to hang on, I have a feeling it has more to do with inertia than with wind resistance. :-)

> Rift "Not from a Jedi..." Traveler

Don "I like to provide logical reasons for the suspension of disbelief" Monkey