Poor Design-choices In the Star Wars Universe

[wraggster]

John Scalzi's AMC blog shows a short guide to the most epic FAILs in Star Wars design — 'I'll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies. Need examples? Here's ten

http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner...-star-wars.php

[PLZKLLME0080]

Those are some good points. As far as the blasters shooting so slow, I thought beams of light would move at, maybe, the speed of light?