The Death Star is a near-perfect sphere, a hundred miles across, with a planet-vaporizing laser. In Orlin's version, Lord Vader nixed design shapes like pyramids, cubes, or a cylindrical Death ...

It’s kind of impossible not to have “Star Wars” in your head. ... The moves of the pencil, and the small scraping sound they made, seemed to line up with the notes of the song.

A fragment of the Death Star, even starting at a velocity of zero, would hit Earth with an impact velocity of 11,176 meters per second—25,000 miles per hour. That's damn fast.

You don't need a giant alien head and a weird oboe-like instrument to perform the cantina theme song. You just need a pencil. Star Wars cantina theme magically played by a pencil - CNET ...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the 1999 book The Science of Star Wars by Jeanne Cavelos. The Death Star's planet-destroying weapon is said in the Star Wars Encyclopedia to be a ...

My recollection of seeing "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" the day it premiered is dominated by one peculiar memory. It's etched indelibly into my teen brain as the time when my good buddy Mike ...

Star Wars: The Pencil Game The new movie gets 80's kids on Metafilter reminiscing about pre-video game battles. By Brady Dale • 12/18/15 5:28pm. Legos would be another way to make a pretend X-Wing.