I mean, technically, it was. Erso rigged it so that it blew up from inside the design team.
Also, I’m just gonna say it- R2D2 took the shot. He was faking being shot so he could focus. That little droid has made quite the career out of letting hicks take the credit.
Thats actually a good point, they say its an impossible shot but surely a fucking droid can make the correct calculations to shoot at the right time
Plus R2D2 had the entire Death Star plans in his memory.
Apparently droids are not good enough to shoot guns. Most guns are fired by people, even the ones on star destroyers.
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So, they can operate completely autonomously, and have individual personalities, but they can’t do mathematics?
Not saying it makes sense (but shooting at moving targets that can change direction after you shoot, from a gun mounted on a platform with movement out of your control is not just math)
Sure it is, in the real world there are entire disciplines of mathematical theory dealing with those topics.
I thought there was a line about calculating the route for hyperdrive and it taking a minute, so maybe they could but wouldn’t do the math fast enough. Mean it sounds plausible for the 70s when Douglas Adams was going on about digital watches in his books, nowadays it takes a bit to believe that’d be the situation.
I mean, from an engineering and mathematical perspective the gun aiming problem and bipedal droid mechanics are very similar in a lot of ways, except the bipedal droid is much more difficult.
Ultimately, though, who cares? Nothing about Star Wars makes scientific sense and Luke shooting guns from a manual turret is more fun than a computer casually blowing up the tie fighters.
At that size, would you be able to detect the curve while flying so fast?
No
The Meridian trench of the Death Star is on the outside, so the Death Star explosion is actually an outside job, you silly Billy!