Feb 17, 2014
I maintain that the trash compactor onboard the Death Star in Star Wars is implausible, unworkable, and moreover, inefficient.
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The Death Star clearly has a garbage-disposal problem. Given its size and massive personnel, the amount of waste it generates -- discarded food, broken equipment, excrement, and the like -- boggles the imagination. That said, I just cannot fathom how an organization as ruthless and efficiently-run as the Empire would have signed off on such a dangerous, unsanitary, and shoddy garbage-disposal system as the one depicted in the movie.
From 2002, but man, I love this piece.