I'm sure no-one subscribes to the silly idea that a human body will explode in the vacuum of space these days, but I would have thought that Leia would've frozen into an icicle all over. And how the fuck did she turn into Space Superman?? That was easily THE stupidest moment in this movie, up there with sucking up the plasma in a star and spitting it out again (I'm staring at you, Force Awakens!)
Does she have force powers? You could definitely survive the vacuum of space by containing an atmosphere around you.
shareIt's been established since V (or at least hinted at in V and confirmed in VI) that Leia is Force sensitive.
shareAll I saw of Leia's Force abilities beforehand was that she could sense feelings, nothing else.
They obviously wanted to show that she had force powers, but I agree it was a pretty average way of doing it - flying through space like an angel was pretty ridiculous...
That and they killed off Admiral Ackbar ...
This is from Reddit:
From wikipedia's article on thermal radiation, a human body radiates 1000W. From the hypothermia article, clinical death occurs when the body's temperature falls at 30ºC. So we have a delta of 6 degrees (Celsius or Kelvin, it's the same if it's a delta).
I'm going to treat the human body as 100% water to estimate the heat capacity. Note that this is an oversimplification.
If 70kg of water lose 6º of temperature, the energy emitted is 1.7 MJ. At 1kW this means it takes almost 1/2 an hour to cool down to death
You're absolutely correct, Leia would not freeze to death so instantly. In fact, I'm reminded of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which two of the main characters are blown out of an airlock and it is stated that a human can survive up to two minutes in a space vacuum before asphyxiation, and events happen that mean that they survive with no ill-effects.
Let's also not forget that these movies are the origin of handwaving..
shareDude...shes a boss
shareThat close up of her face in space before she became Mary Poppins was the perfect time to kill the character, after the close up fade to black with no music for a few seconds. RIP Carrie Fisher.
shareIt was a good moment for her to be written out indeed. Or with the ridiculous hyperspeed attack (just use an x-wing as a missile, people!)
shareWell after an A-Wing took down an entire Super Star Destroyer Executor in ROTJ, you'd think that attacking ships with ships might become a normal thing. It's a lot better than waiting to get killed.
shareStupid or imaginative? How about this for consideration:
"Star lifting is any of several hypothetical processes by which a sufficiently advanced civilization (specifically, one of Kardashev-II or higher) could remove a substantial portion of a star's matter which can then be re-purposed, while possibly optimizing the star's energy output and lifespan at the same time. The term appears to have been coined by David Criswell.
Stars already lose a small flow of mass via solar wind, coronal mass ejections, and other natural processes. Over the course of a star's life on the main sequence this loss is usually negligible compared to the star's total mass; only at the end of a star's life when it becomes a red giant or a supernova is a large amount of material ejected. The star lifting techniques that have been proposed would operate by increasing this natural plasma flow and manipulating it with magnetic fields." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
As to Leia, yeah the ability to survive in a vacuum seems unlikely. That said, scientifically it's been found that a few minutes survival is possible, most of that rendered unconscious:
"As far as certain death in a science fiction plot line goes, being ejected into the vacuum of space is more than a pretty sure thing. A shove out of the air lock by a mutinous lieutenant or a vicious rip in a space suit, and your average movie victim is guaranteed to die quickly and quietly, though with fewer exploding body parts than screenwriters might have you believe.
In reality, however, animal experiments and human accidents have shown that people can likely survive exposure to vacuum conditions for at least a couple of minutes. Not that you would remain conscious long enough to rescue yourself, but if your predicament was accidental, there could be time for fellow crew members to rescue and repressurize you with few ill effects." - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space-unprotected-possible/
Also, being a Force sensitive in a weightless environment might mean she is capable of manoeuvring herself to safety even from the depths of her consciousness while in a non-awake state.
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Who says their space is the same as ours? After all, they have sound in theirs; we don't.
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