this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2026
947 points (98.8% liked)

Political Memes

11750 readers
2089 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

1) Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

2) No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

3) Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

4) No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

5) No AI generated content.Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's fascinating how they were able to blockade something in 3d space with something that looked a lot like a 2d structure. Must be some Liu Cixin kind of shit going on there.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don’t think they have the concept of orbits in Star Wars. Damaged ships just happen to fall into planets all the time.

[–] renormalizer@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A lot of sci-fi suffers from space ships hanging in the air in exactly the way that bricks don't. Trek does it too.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

It exists but isn't really shown for the same reason reasonable battle tactics are a super power in Warhammer 40k, rule of cool.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They usually come out of hyperspace just above the planet so they won't have orbital velocity.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The polarity of the Khyber crystals or something.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean it really looks like they exit at a speed of some sort and the rest is imagination, usually when a science hole is found in the space opera it is pretty huge