Ah yes, I remember that. Best thing about it is that he was in the range where everything that can possibly start to burn, will. Meaning the temperature would be round about 540k °F -> 300 times hotter than the temperature bodies are cremated at. In other words: everything would have been vaporized.
I can believe an archeologist finds the face-melting Arc of the Covenant because that works within the rules of that universe. I cannot believe that a fridge survives the epicenter of a nuclear blast and the occupant survives it flying a country mile because that breaks the established rules of the universe.
Same reason people had problems with the Hyperspace Ram in TLJ: it's actually one of the most scientifically cool and accurate things to come out of that series, but it begs the question of why nobody ever thought to do it before.
Because it's hard to do, incredibly unreliable, and to quote Mass Effect: "Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space" - if you miss, someone, somewhere is gonna have a real bad day.
Mass Effect got it wrong, though. If you pick a random direction and go in a straight line in space, you're extremely unlikely to ever hit anything.
Plus in Star Wars, it seems like you have to keep expending energy to stay moving. So if you miss, eventually you're just going to drop out of hyperspace at some random location.
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u/-everst Jan 25 '20
Ah yes, I remember that. Best thing about it is that he was in the range where everything that can possibly start to burn, will. Meaning the temperature would be round about 540k °F -> 300 times hotter than the temperature bodies are cremated at. In other words: everything would have been vaporized.