Essay Of The Day: On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor

You know, the writer (Joshua Tyree) has a point. Several of them. All brilliant.For example:And what of the creature that lives in the trash compactor? Presumably, the creature survives because the moving walls do not extend all the way to the floor of the room, where the liquid is. After all, if the walls reached the floor, the creature would be killed each time trash is compacted. The