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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • From a (US) financial perspective, a phone charger takes about 5 watts of electricity. At $0.010/kWh that’s $0.0005/hr (or ¢0.05/hr) of charging. This is utterly negligible.

    For reference, a worker at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr would be paid that much after 0.25 seconds of working. It’s not even worth paying an employee to tell you to not plug in, which would probably take at least 15 seconds.

    Naturally, some businesses may want to discourage people from loitering, but more often than not, they probably want your business (library, grocery store, coffee shop &c) or understand that reality happens.


  • Repulsorlifts are magical. They levitate ships with no external outputs. They’re also perfectly well suited to explain how a fragment of a ship can crash from a high altitude without being destroyed. As an anti-gravity device, repulsorlifts can greatly reduce or eliminate the need for any orbital velocity, making re-entry much more viable. And in the same vein, they can reduce a ship’s effective gravitational mass enough that its terminal velocity is survivable.



  • Repulsorlifts are the technology that enables ships to hover and fly the way they do. There are typically many across a ship’s structure for redundancy and handling reasons.

    Not to mention that there were two Jedi on board, both of whom would probably be using the Force to pull the ship into a safer crash. We’ve seen Jedi use force powers strong enough to manipulate ships before, so this is not out of the question.