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Tauntaun Gore in LEGOIn the movie The Empire Strikes Back, our heroes used Tauntauns as beasts of burden on the ice planet Hoth. You will surely remember the scene in which Han Solo cuts a Tauntaun open and sticks his injured friend Luke Skywalker inside to keep him from freezing. This is a scene that doesn't get recreated as often as some others, because it's gory, and from the movie dialogue we know that it smells bad, too. LEGO But Ochre Jelly (Iain Heath) was up for the challenge!

Are Lightsabers Theoretically Possible?We all recall the first time we saw a lightsaber deployed in a Star Wars movie, because they were just so cool. But can anything like this technology ever come to exist, or is it just magical? Gizmodo asked two physicists and a photonics professor about the possibility. Dennis K. Killinger of the University of South Florida explains how such a laser weapon wouldn't work as it does in the movies. The one aspect of lightsabers that seems infeasible is the concept of its acting as a solid physical rod or saber that can “hit” or “strike” an opponent. In the movies the mechanical hitting of the dueling lightsabers is enforced by sound effects—the lightsabers have a “hum,” and you can hear them hitting each other. But if you take two flashlight beams and cross one beam with the other beam, there is no sound or force experienced by one light beam on the other. This is because photons have no mass, which means that a laser or optical beam has no mass. To get the point across: I like to say that “You can’t use a light beam to hammer a nail.” So in this sense, it is not feasible that two laser beams can “hit” each other in the mechanical sense. However, there is a scientific exception to this: as discovered by recent physics Nobel Prize winner A. Ashkin, a laser beam under the right conditions can be used as an optical trap or as an optical tweezer to trap and move very small objects, such as a bacteria. While one could stretch the truth and call this a Star Wars Tractor Beam, there is a 1,000 billion billion times difference between moving a bacteria and the mass of a starship (ie. SpaceX second stage starship.) However, the experts agree that if "lightsaber" is a misnomer and the actual weapon is made of plasma particles, that opens up all kinds of possibilities, none of them yet feasible. Read what they all have to say at Gizmodo.#lightsaber #starwars #laser

Artist Sculpts Star Wars' Millennium Falcon Out of SandWatch this mesmerizing time-lapse of Italian sand artist Leonardo Ugolini sculpting a miniature Millennium Falcon out of sand.The video, first posted to TikTok (and then a longer version to YouTube), showed Ugolini carefully use a spatula to build the body of the Millennium Falcon on top of a plywood cut to the contour of the Star Wars starship. Then, he used various tools to add features such as the sensor dish and ship's surface details.Ugolini sprayed a mixture of water and glue using a nebulizer to create a transparent film that cover the spacecraft and keep its shape. This, and the use of the plywood base, allowed the artist to move the sculpture back to his studio.#LeonardoUgolini #sandsculpture #sandart #StarWars #MillenniumFalcon #Chewbacca #timelapseIn his YouTube clip, Ugolini added a cockpit diorama featuring a cutout of Chewbacca:

Star Wars Fan Recreated Iconic Scenes with LEGO and Homemade Special EffectsSure is nice doing what you love and inspiring others in the process!Daniel Sands is living the dream as he combines his love for photography and Star Wars to cleverly recreate scenes from the iconic films, much to the delight of fans like himself. As an added twist, he does this only with ordinary household stuff like baking powder and his son's Lego box."I want it to be simple with no fancy studio. The first ones I did I used an upturned pizza box on my tumble dryer, used a bike light for lighting and some baking powder to resemble snow,” Sands says about his ongoing project, trying to show everyone that photographers don't need expensive equipment to snap high-quality pictures.Image: Daniel Sands#StarWars #photography #DanielSands #diorama

Miniature Life: Whimsical Mini Sculptures by Tatsuya TanakaArtist Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating daily mini vignettes featuring food and common everyday objects paired with sculpted figurines - that's 3,650 whimsical, charming and downright funny creations that'll brighten your day!#sculpture #miniature #TatsuyaTanaka #dioramaMany more examples over at Tanaka's Instagram account - be prepared to be amazed!Here are some of our faves: