How Luke Sky Walker destroyed Yavan 4

Star Wars positions Luke Skywalker's actions above Yavan 4 as heroic and brave. This is less true the more you look at the underlying facts of destroying the Death Star.

Take a large steel structure. Include a power source. Constrain the power in condensed form. Suddenly release this through space magic. Watch the unexpected level of violence.

Such a violent release would not only create considerable space debris but also release a massive amount of energy indiscriminately.

This does not sound like a hero's actions when it results in the death of millions of people for a fact and possibly more again who are not directly involved in the conflict.

A little bit of physics helps to understand why this was a terrible decisions and the rebel should not have survived to fight another day.

Here is how Luke Skywalker continues in his father's steps of mass death and evil.