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If repulsorlifts do something that make an object push against the ground, then wouldn't a living creature under the object with it's repulsorlift on crush it? 75.92.193.219 08:27, July 18, 2011 (UTC)
- Not sure about crushing as a result of being hovered over, however there have been instances of ships crushing people by landing on them. -- Riffsyphon1024 08:51, July 18, 2011 (UTC)
- You can stand directly under a helicopter and not be crushed by the downward wind force. It's the same principle, in theory. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 14:38, July 18, 2011 (UTC)
- PROXY apparently uses a series of repulsors emitters to simulate Force powers, so you probably could crush something with them. SinisterSamurai 02:54, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
- You can stand directly under a helicopter and not be crushed by the downward wind force. It's the same principle, in theory. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 14:38, July 18, 2011 (UTC)
It probably would crush something, seeing as it is made of gravitational knots, which would inflict some damage on the area of the gravitational field, but repulsorlifts work only in gravity wells, so the force would be spread over a couple kilometres or so The Master 02:01, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
- But wouldn't that make anyone near the vehicle be thrown away? Mand'alor Skyobiliviator The Devastator 06:09, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
- Apparently not since we haven't seen it happen. – Karohalva 20:10, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, that's not it, so what is? Apply it directly to the ground? Mand'alor Skyobiliviator The Devastator 04:27, July 27, 2011 (UTC)
- Encyclopedia that this is, we must with certain exceptions restrict our answers to what is documented in the Star Wars films and Expanded Universe. Speculation, however likely or logical, is the realm of message boards. You might enjoy the Jedi Council Forums at TheForce.net as they are much better suited to many of your questions. – Karohalva 05:44, July 27, 2011 (UTC)
- According to Starwars.com repulsors push against gravity feilds. So if you consider airspeeders use the technology for the lift required for flight (though not propulsion), they are demonstrating the capabilities of repulsors to levitate mass at various ranges of height, obviously without expelling any kind of kinetic energy that makes contact with the ground surface. Landspeeders, hovertanks, hovertrucks etc apparently ride at a prescribed height parallel with the surface and since they are using the same repulsorlift technology as airspeeders, don't push against the surface of a planet, but rather it's gravitational feild that the repulsors somehow manipulate to take away the weight of mass. Gui-Gon and Jar Jar were ran over by a large Sep tank and survived without so much as a scratch, but you'll probably see some snowspeeders fly over the heads of some rebel soldiers without squashing them either. Same principle. 40 Year Old Virgin 12:27, July 31, 2011 (UTC)
- But isn't there a few coincidence where the speeder "Run over" animals?Mand'alor Skyobiliviator The Devastator 20:54, August 1, 2011 (UTC)
- In those instances, it's likely that the animal was hit with some part of the vehicle (like the front end, or the bottom). Animals in Star Wars tend to be large, and landspeeders only float about a meter up. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 12:58, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
- But isn't there a few coincidence where the speeder "Run over" animals?Mand'alor Skyobiliviator The Devastator 20:54, August 1, 2011 (UTC)
- Sounds like a lot of opinion is being used to answer this question.MaxReebo 15:43, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
- Well don't be shy. This is a public forum, so please feel free to discuss, challenge or enlighten us. 40 Year Old Virgin 12:11, August 4, 2011 (UTC)
- And there necessarily has to be some opinion used in this topic. We have a canon source of someone standing beneath a repulsorlift vehicle without incident (Qui-Gon and Jar-Jar), and we have a droid using repulsorlifts to crush people (PROXY), and possibly other sources that provide other info. All we can do is discuss and develop the logic of what's given. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 12:51, August 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Excuse me for butting in, but I just wanted to remind you that ntho matter how much logic a subject can make sense in a KB thread, if there's no canon source, it can't be put in an article. Cal Jedi (Personal Comm Channel) 16:33, August 4, 2011 (UTC)
- And there necessarily has to be some opinion used in this topic. We have a canon source of someone standing beneath a repulsorlift vehicle without incident (Qui-Gon and Jar-Jar), and we have a droid using repulsorlifts to crush people (PROXY), and possibly other sources that provide other info. All we can do is discuss and develop the logic of what's given. Taral, Dark Lord of the Sith -Just shy, not antisocial: You can talk to me!- 12:51, August 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Well don't be shy. This is a public forum, so please feel free to discuss, challenge or enlighten us. 40 Year Old Virgin 12:11, August 4, 2011 (UTC)
- In X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble they clear out Fex-M3d from a building by using the repulsors on a airspeeder, but the Qui-Gon and Jar-Jar thing is a higher level of canon so I think that this is a inconsistency with the Jar-jar thing beating the book. Darth Needham 23:32, August 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Hmm I'd like to know what type of drive that speeder had. Also I'd like to see the context in which repulsorlifts are mentioned and used in that story. Any craft with turbofan drives would be blowing the air out of any building pretty fast. More so, you would think drives of any kind would be displacing air before repulsorlifts. Simply because repulsorlifts utilise the force of gravity rather than compressed air or ion particles. 40 Year Old Virgin 00:13, August 8, 2011 (UTC)
- Guys, did you notice that whenever a ship flies through the sky, it causes a ripple and distortion in the air, that could be the repulsorlifts...or maybe just the engine heat...
- That would be the engine heat. The repulsorlift is used to get off the ground, not to fly. Cal Jedi (Personal Comm Channel) 16:07, August 8, 2011 (UTC)
Not exactly true, you know that speeder bikes use repulsorlift for a froward drive...
- But, they usually fly at like two feet above the ground. Cal Jedi (Personal Comm Channel) 20:49, August 8, 2011 (UTC)
But its still flying, isn't it?
- True, but I was referring to upper atmosphere and space flight. I just didn't specify it very well. Cal Jedi (Personal Comm Channel) 01:59, August 9, 2011 (UTC)
Airspeeder...perhaps?
- The canon explanation that repulsorlifts function only within a gravity well implies that they are an anti-gravity drive. It seems like the most simple explanation would be that since gravity exerts force toward the center of mass of the gravitic body, that a repulsorlift is interacting with the center of mass of a planet, not necessarily the surface of the planet (gravity would pull toward a planet's crust, but the pull does not originate there). There would not have to be ill effects for anyone underneath a repulsor vehicle because the enormously more massive gravity of the planet would likely overwhelm and normalize any stray effects of the repulsor (like a sneeze in a hurricane). Ultimately the only thing apparently affected is the attraction between the repulsor drive and the planet. Perhaps the repulsor is only able to interact with massive gravity fields. DarthSideoftheMoon 20:03, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
- I suppose the logical question that follows then is "when smaller craft land inside a Star Destroyer how does it lift off if its repulsors only function within a gravity well?" and "don't canon references show repulsor lifts acting like elevators on ships, which are not within significant gravity wells?" DarthSideoftheMoon 20:03, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
- Since every ship in Star Wars seems to have articial gravity and inertial dampeners, we can only speculate how they interact with repulsorlifts. However, being "artificial", we can surmise that gravity is being generated to equal that of a standard gravity well or planet. Even starfighter cockpits seem to have gravity, as I don't recall any depiction of weightlessness. How this is achieved on a starship and whether repulsorlift tech is used, or how it interacts with small vessells inside with repulsorlifts, again, we can only speculate. This is sci-fi / fantasy after all, but maybe an answer exists..40 Year Old Virgin 21:01, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
- Good point about the artificial gravity and inertial compensators. It just makes sense that technology capable of controlling the build up of momentum in matter, and able to create artificial gravity as well as mass shadows for interdictors would have no problem fine tuning something simple like a repulsorlift. Any serious canonical explanation would probably require a more in-depth understanding of gravity than real world scientists actually have anyway. DarthSideoftheMoon 23:06, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
- In Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, Lorn Pavan and I-5YQ are being chased by Darth Maul. Darsha Assant and Anoon Bondara knock Maul over by tilting their skycar away from him, so that the bottom was facing him, and that knocked him out and pushed him out of his "force run". However, in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon and Jar Jar lie under an AAT but are fine. 14:41, November 6, 2011