How could Grievous' gutsack survive the vacuum of space?

It's not protected by anything but two chestplates...which happen to be flimsy enough that a human man can pry them open with his hands.

Grievous breathes air, correct...I mean, he can cough.
So how did it not explode when the pressure of the air inside of it tried to escape outwards into vacuum?

 

Do you ever explode when are in space?

 

Have we become so despreate for thread material to worry about this?

 

he used his imagination.

BOB

 

What, Grievous can't hold his breath?

 

How didn't Anakin, Palpatine and Kenobi explode when the windows were busted out of the spacecraft, or when Han, Chewy and Leia walked out of the falcoln on the asteroid?
It's the mystery of the Star Wars Universe. Space is a TOTALLY different vacuum there, unlike OURS it's relatively RICH with oxygen, which is why so many firey EXPLOSIONS take place in it. That can't EXIST in OUR space.

That, or perhaps Grevious had some sort of force-field like the Gungan's shields to hold his organs in from being destroyed.

Just don't think rationally, you'll come across your OWN BS.

 

Maybe he doesn't always have to use his lungs, he just uses them so he can have a creepy cough. It makes hime more intimadating than a shower bottle.

 

He WAS about as intimidating as a shower bottle. Less in fact.

 

Once a shower bottle always a shower bottle.

 

the real question is how did the two Jedi survive the cold of space.I mean there was no sun in miles of them.

 

They were next to a planet that had people living on it, there must of been a sun some where.

 

He can hermetically seal himself together, but it limits his felxibility. At least, that's the best explanation I've heard so far. And I wouldn't automatically consider them flimsy just because Obi-Wan can pull them slightly apart....he is a Jedi Master, after all.

According to the ROTS novel, Grievous doesn't have lungs....oxygen is pumped directly into his bloodstream....which, if it were not for the movie, would make sense. But in the movie, he coughs....but I don't know how that's possible without lungs. So I really don't know anymore.

Lucas told us that the space battle took place within the uppermost atmosphere of Coruscant....so technically, it wasn't a true vacuum, although it was pretty darn close. Not sure if that makes a difference, though. And don't forget that the ship got damaged and fell much closer to the planet before leveling out again.

 

almost all the starships in star wars wouldn't be able to fly, unless there are some anomalies to our space. and talk about strange things, in almost every science fiction movie, there is SOUND in space. so much, that we dont even think about it.

and for the couching, maybe he has no lungs, but it could be simulated by a vocalizer.

 

In a vacuum, your blood will boil and if there is air in your lungs it will try to escape and it can cause your body to explode if you don't exhale.

...But this is the GFFA, and more importantly, Science Fiction where nobody ever wears a space suit and the only "freak" in the galaxy who breaths anything that is not in the atmosphere of every planet in the galaxy apparently is Jedi Master Plo Koon...so with oxygen so ubiquitous in the GFFA, and with the noisy and fire-filled explosions we always see and hear in space battles...we can presume there is not true vacuum.

 

Obi-wan stabbed Grievous with the elctrostaff, which allowed him to damage Grievous' chest plate enough, that he could continue to pull it apart. Thus allowing him to hit a direct target with the blaster. Prior to that, Grievous could survive in the vacuum of space, without having to worry about his chest cavity.

As to the sunlight, I dunno what you're talking about. Once the blast sheilds covered the broken window, they were fine.

 

anyone notice that when the cabin de-pressurizes,
obi-wan slips his grip, and would have been sucked out the window
were it not for ani grabbing his arm and pulling him back.

small detail, but there if you choose to look.

i wonder if that is the ninth time ani saves obi-wan...?

BOB

 

it was the will of the force

 

Interesting. But not, I don't think it is. I believe Anakin's refering to not leaving him behind in Grievous' quarters. Though, it would be interesting if it was.

 

Really? Anakin saved him? I thought he grabbed on and saved himself.

 

Black magic.

 

They weren't that close to each other. Anakin and Obi-Wan grabbed onto two different spots of the railing. Not once did Obi-Wan slip and need the assistance of Anakin anyway.

 

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Really? Anakin saved him? I thought he grabbed on and saved himself.[hr][/blockquote]

he does save himself at first, sapient.
but then we cut to Grievous outside, pulling himself back onto the hull.
and when we cut back to our heroes, Kenobi has slipped his grip.
he is clutching anakin's arm who pulls him back to safety.

[blockquote][hr]They weren't that close to each other. Anakin and Obi-Wan grabbed onto two different spots of the railing. Not once did Obi-Wan slip and need the assistance of Anakin anyway.[hr][/blockquote]

i'm not going to say i have just checked, obi-wan506.
because i can't do that.
but....

BOB

 

I'd be interested in getting the DVD so I can check this out. Now that we mention it I vaguely remember that after we cut back from Grievous, Kenobi does have Anakin's arm. I might just be imagining it though.

 

you are not imagining it, obi.

BOB

 

Good, I thought I was going crazy for a second there.