I don't know if this has ever been talked about but how do people in the Star Wars Disney canon galaxy clean their clothes? Do they have laundromauts or is their some kind of more advanced way they do it?
Wookieepedia says that a Laundry droid was mentioned in Yodaark Rendezvous. Other than that, nothing as far as I can tell. I'd imagine cleaning clothes is similar to other technological wonders in the galaxy far far away: If you lived on a rich planet you have incredibly advanced technology and droids to do the work for you. If you live on a poor planet, you're SOL. Speaking of poor planets, given how scarce water is on Tatooine, how to people do laundry there? (I'm also curious as to how they bathe). I figure it must have been mentioned in Complete Locations or something, but nothing comes to mind.
Dry cleaning. How about a general technology thread, so yunzabit doesn't have to start a new one every time? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sonic showers are mentioned in Complete Locations. Perhaps sonic washing machines are a thing as well?
I feel the sonic process is likely the wrote answer, although it doesn't make a lot of sense. Unless you've got the sonicator tuned to a dangerous setting, it's not going to clean most stuff off your clothes, and even at a high setting I can't see it being as effective as soap/water. You go too high and it's going to destroy your clothes anyway. I assume then one of two things must be going on for sonication to work in the GFFA to clean clothes: either 1) the clothes aren't anything like what we're familiar with today (seems doubtful -- most look like fibers), or 2) it's not real "sonication", but some other process using the same name. If you can replicate what the soap molecules do at a micro scale, then you're in business. But I can't see sonication doing that. You'd need to be projecting that type of energy on a pin-pointed micro scale, like with the assistance of microbots or something, and that's just silliness. Easier just to invent "smart" clothes that have fibers that can clean themselves on micro scale, but again, the GFFA hasn't shown it has that kind of technology.
Well, in real life, people who live in desert locations with limited water supplies do use a combination of sand and oils to scrub off and dissolve away the dirt and sweat from the skin. When Anakin says “sand is coarse and rough and gets everywhere” I think he truly means it. He was probably delighted to find out water showers existed. But also, as someone who works and does research in conversation of sensitive organic materials, I can say it is very possible (and not that time consuming) to clean materials without using water (or even liquids) whatsoever, and also without using expensive or high-tech methods.
