Mike DiCenso wrote:I checked my DVD copy of TESB last night, and I think I know why some people back then might have made a mistake in thinking there were vaporized asteroids. It seems that in the Avenger/Falcon chase scene, the flack bursts do have a "red blob" component to them, unlike the earlier ANH TL flack bursts, which were just simple white flashes. The red blobs continue to appear in the TL flack bursts well after both ships have been stated to have left the asteroid field. So this phenomena of red blobs may not be melted material, but some weird effect of the Type-II ISD TL batteries.
In any case, there are no asteroids being hit and "vaporized" in the disputed scenes.
-Mike
There is clearly no excuse. Even on the first verion of the films, it was clear that where there was an explosion, there was no asteroid beforehand.
Their claims are literally absurd, and their refusal to even admit it years later, their refusal to update, alter or erase certain portions of those pages is a perfect demonstration of their remarkable dishonest bias and faith in their beliefs... which makes me giggle when you see how they often like to portray themselves as absolutely tarmac kissing down to earth scientific nutcases, and yet, they "see" things and they
believe in them, just like in many other things.
Now, this is not surprising. That same poor logic made a come back for the explosions in AOTC, and Poe kept swinging the same claims about asteroids being vaporized by Slave I's guns.
The same powerful guns which have to cope with "gigatons of recoil" I guess!
That said, since I noticed the links I had didn't work anymore, I updated
my post, and put direct links to the pictures from a personna account.