Star Wars: Racer Arcade "fancier, beefier version of "Episode I: Racer"." Star Wars: Racer Arcade Star Wars: Racer Arcade is a 2000 arcade racing game developed by AM5 and LucasArts and released by Sega. It is based on the Podrace scenes in the 1999 film "". It was unveiled at ATEI in London in 2000. It features four tracks, Tatooine (Easy) Bantha Tracks, Etti IV (Normal), Smuggler's Cove, Malastare (Hard) Pixelito Challenge has four laps and Tatooine (Expert) Boonta Eve Classic has three laps. Four Podracer pilots are available for play, including Anakin Skywalker, Ben Quadinaros, Gasgano and Sebulba. The player controls the podracer
The Science of Star Wars (book) The Science of Star Wars (book) The Science of Star Wars is a nonfiction popular science book written by former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos first published on April 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Press. The book uses fictional characters, worlds, and technology from the "Star Wars" universe as starting points for discussion of factual concepts in cosmology, biology, and technology, and discusses in a "semi-serious" fashion the scientific probability of such fictional elements. "It takes the fantastic elements of the movies—like faster-than-light travel—and examines the current state of science to see if they're possible". Chapter 1: Planetary Environments covers topics