11 Sci-Fi Movies That Got Science Completely Wrong

2. Star Wars – Single Biome Planets

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Star Wars might be one of the most successful and popular sci-fi franchises of all time, but that doesn't excuse it from following certain rules.

While George Lucas cleverly skirted around being limited to our own familiar sciences by setting his story in a galaxy far, far away, it's still not enough to render the entire franchise immune to scrutiny.

Let's start this by stating that the planets in the Star Wars universe all seem to follow the same basic laws of physics as Earth, but that's not really the issue. The issue is the environmental conditions of those planets.

Each planet is part of a star system, and as a result, they should all have weather systems. And they do. Except they always (or mostly) appear to the same across the entire planet.

While the idea of an ice planet, a desert planet and a forest moon are nice and easy to wrap our heads around, scientifically, it's absolute nonsense. Planets would have areas with vastly different climates, much like our own, and if their conditions were extreme enough to warrant the entire planet being nothing but scorched desert, we can't help but wonder if life should exist there at all.

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