This article is a stub about a subject or topic of science. The Death Star began as a Geonosian design, but became operational after nearly two decades of work by a team of brilliant scientists sequestered on the rainswept world of Eadu. Often, scientists had the title of doctor, like Farnsworth. On two occasions, deaths were ruled to be accidental suffocation during “sex experiments.”The bright spikes extending below the initial fireball of one of 1952’s Operation Tumbler–Snapper test shots, known as the “rope trick effect.” They are caused by the intense flash of thermal/soft X-rays released by the explosion heating the steel tower guy-wires white hot.
Star Wars Science Ideas. Victor Moore died of a drug overdose, and his death was ruled a suicide.The Extended Range Nike Zeus/Spartan missile of the late-1960s was designed to provide full-country defense as part of the Sentinel-Safeguard programs. Directed by Gareth Edwards. Fifty-year-old Alistair Beckham was a successful British aerospace- projects engineer. It was meant to develop a space-based anti-missile system. It’s impossible for us to know, but it’s very difficult to believe it’s a coincidence that so many deaths occurred, so close together, of people who were all on the same project.ABM test vehicle (Homing Overlay Experiment). The U.S. and the Soviets were deep in the Cold War, and Reagan felt that the SDI would provide protection against a Soviet missile attack by intercepting missiles while they were still in the air, according to Atomic Archive.Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan aboard an American boat in California, 1964.In order to be successful, though, the program needed a number of advanced technologies that had yet to be researched or developed. There have been events in the past were sensationalized and/or dismissed as false conspiracies that still seem as if there may well be more behind them than meets the eye.One of these is the fact that between 1982 and 1988, well over 20 scientists who worked for the British company GEC-Marconi all died after having worked on Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative program.The SDI program, also known as “Star Wars,” was first proposed in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. The GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory claims that between 1982 and 1990 twenty-five British -based GEC-Marconi scientists and engineers who worked on the Sting Ray torpedo project and other United States Strategic Defense Initiative related projects (better known as "Project Star Wars") died under mysterious circumstances. The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans. 9-7-7. Led by a reluctant Galen Erso, the Death Star scientists seek to fuse kyber-crystal shards into larger structures and use those crystals to amplify energy into a stable beam powerful enough to destroy an entire planet.Please upgrade your browser to experience the site. The technologies of tomorrow were on full display as Luke, Leia, Han and the Rebel Alliance fought Darth Vader’s Galactic Empire beginning in 1977. His specialty was designing computer software for sophisticated naval defense systems. Scientists' field of enterprise varied greatly, with some going into the design of interstellar ships, aiding the creation of ships such as the TIE/D Defender or the Star Destroyer, or building superweapons. She was gagged, hands bound behind her back and her feet tied, with a noose around her neck.It was suggested that she had somehow done all of that herself, then hobbled in her four-inch stiletto heels to the lake to drown herself, causing the coroner to declare the death not a homicide but instead leave the verdict open.Marconi S511 radar located at Norwich International Airport.As a twist on this last event, the lake where Warren was found was only a short distance from where another of the scientists had fallen off a railway bridge and subsequently died, on the same day.Was it all part of some governmental plot? Weirdly, there is also a great deal of similarity between the ways in which a number of the deaths occurred.One drove his car off a bridge, another fell from his hotel window. Led by a reluctant Galen Erso, the Death Star scientists seek to fuse kyber-crystal shards into larger structures and use those crystals to amplify energy into a stable beam powerful enough to destroy an entire planet. December 9, 2015 By Emma Vanstone 2 Comments. You can help Wookieepedia by expanding it. In October, 1986, Ashad Sharif allegedly drove to a public park, tied a nylon rope around both his neck and a large tree, and then drove away quickly, decapitating himself.In April of the following year, Shani Warren was found drowned in 18 inches of water. Five of the scientists died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their cars or their garages. In this episode of Science and Star Wars (paid for by IBM), Daniel Logan joins us for a look a the technology powering the galaxy's most notorious bounty hunter, Boba Fett. Projected to cost $40 billion ($302 billion in 2018) it would have offered minimal protection and damage prevention in an all-out attackOf the other many deaths that transpired during that two-year window, if a cause of death was determined, the determination was either suicide or accident. With so many “suicides,” you might expect to see more that were done in more commonplace ways.It’s not too hard to believe that there may have been a couple of such incidents, but taken as a whole, it’s much more difficult to think they are all unrelated.Whether these scientists were murdered by actors for the defense industry or a government, or whether perhaps they knew things they felt they just couldn’t live with, remains a mystery.Join 1000s of subscribers and receive the best Vintage News in your mailbox for FREE The development of the W71 and the Project Excalibur x-ray laser were based on enhancing the destructive effects of these x-rays.Two of the deaths were just inexplicably bizarre.