Carl Sagan predicting our current "Celebration of Ignorance"

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4. Star Wars is a fun movie

But it is ridiculous. Dr. Sagan made excellent points about the “humans” and the unlikelihood that white, English-speaking aliens would be humanoid. And I agree, Chewbacca deserved a medal, too. But why did they even have a celebration? The rebels won a battle, not the war or there wouldn’t be a sequel.

But the science of the film is all wrong. Spaceships are not like fighter jets. Orbital trajectories do not resemble a dogfight between a Sopwith Camel and a Fokker tri-plane. Also, when the spaceships jump to light speed, who cares? The speed of light is far too slow to traverse a galaxy. If your X-Wing was at that speed, it would take over four years to travel from Earth to the nearest star, Alpha Proxima. Further, lightsabers make no sense whatsoever.

It’s a cowboy movie that’s a lot of fun but it’s intellectually vapid.

Still, The Empire Strikes Back is the best of the series.