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  2. Cultural impact of Star Wars - Wikipedia

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    A real-life religion based on Star Wars called Jediism follows a modified version of the Jedi Code, and they believe in the concept of The Force as an energy field of all living things, which "surrounds us... penetrates us" and "binds the galaxy together", as is depicted within Star Wars movies, although without the fictional elements such as ...

  3. Technology in Star Wars - Wikipedia

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    The basic concepts and purposes for robotics in Star Wars, as in real life, are to reduce human labour, assist humans with sophisticated requirements, as well as store and manage complex information. Another parallel to the modern world is the use of robots in Star Wars for tasks not considered safe or acceptable for humans.

  4. Star Wars sources and analogues - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 The Hobbit and 1954–55 The Lord of the Rings novels inspired George Lucas's creation of Star Wars in 1977. An early draft for the 1977 Star Wars film is said to have included an exchange of dialogue between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker taken directly from the conversation between Gandalf and Bilbo in Chapter 1 of The Hobbit, where Bilbo/Luke says "Good morning!"

  5. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Both (real) elements cobalt and thorium can be used in nukes to increase fallout, which agrees with the sense in which "Cobalt Thorium G" is used in the movie. In the "Wages of Fire" episode Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, it is revealed that the BGY-11 is powered by a Cobalt Thorium G power core. Coaxium Star Wars

  6. Physics and Star Wars - Wikipedia

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    Hyperspace in Star Wars is unrelated to the presumed space between universal "bubbles" in real life physics. [ 19 ] Hyperspace travel has also been noted to have some form of air resistance, as seen in "Deal or No Deal" , an episode of the Star Wars: the Clone Wars TV series.

  7. ASCII art - Wikipedia

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    A new term was born: "ASCIImation" – another name of animated ASCII art. A seminal work in this arena is the Star Wars ASCIImation. [43] More complicated routines in JavaScript generate more elaborate ASCIImations showing effects like Morphing effects, star field emulations, fading effects and calculated images, such as mandelbrot fractal ...

  8. Hyperspace - Wikipedia

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    [9]: 75 The concept would subsequently be further popularized through its use in the Star Wars franchise. [11] In the 1974 film Dark Star, special effects designer Dan O'Bannon created a visual effect to depict going into hyperspace wherein the stars in space appear to move rapidly toward the camera. This is considered to be the first depiction ...

  9. Jediism - Wikipedia

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    Jediism (or Jedism [1]) is a philosophy, [2] and, in some cases, a religion, [3] [4] mainly based on the depiction of the Jedi characters in Star Wars media. [5] Jediism attracted public attention in 2001 when a number of people recorded their religion as "Jedi" on national censuses.