By: Anuradha
There are many of us who are interested in science fictions and if you are in love with them, you would have probably tried to recreate those fictional ideas in your dream worlds. We found a professor who is a hardcore fan of Star Wars repainting an observatory into R2-D2 and it seems absolutely fascinating.
In German, Hubert Zitt, the professor at the Zweibrucken University of Applied Sciences and known for Star Trek and Star wars lectures transformed the Zweibruck observatory of the Natural Science Association into a giant R2-D2 with the help of a small team.
Image credits: Hochschule Kaiserslautern
Image credits: Hochschule Kaiserslautern
The sci-fi professor completed the project in last September with the help of his father-in-law, the master sci-fi professor completed the project in September 2018, aided by his father-in-law Horst Helle, the master painter Klaus Ruffing and several helping students and it has won the attention of Star Wars fans everywhere. Even the Star Wars actor Mark Hamill tweeted that, “R2-D2 Observatory Transformed Germans Into Giant Nerds.”
Image credits: Hochschule Kaiserslautern
Image credits: Hochschule Kaiserslautern
Image credits: Hochschule Kaiserslautern
However, Zitt and his team aren’t the first fans to complete a Star Wars design challenge. Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College in Minnesota was also transformed into an R2-D2 back in 2010.
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Image credits: Hochschule Kaiserslautern
Image credits: Hochschule Kaiserslautern
The famous Doctor may be known now for his Star Wars and Star Trek expertise, but he got his start in electrotechnology. He received a doctorate from Saarland University in the field of systems theory of electrotechnology and is now a tenured professor in the field at the University of Applied Sciences, Kaiserslautern, Zweibrücken. When he’s not teaching electrotechnology he is spreading information about his favorite sci-fi pop culture.
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Because of his lectures on Star Trek, he gained worldwide acclaim as a Global Top Speaker. The first one announced was a “Christmas lecture” where he presented the topic in a unique style that people couldn’t get enough of. His lectures were also famous in other cities at other universities and conventions such as FedCon, Europe’s biggest Science Fiction Convention.
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Zitt gained so much recognition in his field that he wrote the preface of the book ‘Star Trek in Germany’ along with the son of the Star Trek inventor Gene Roddenberry in 2008. In the fall semester of the same year, the professor became a regular lecturer at the The University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas teaching ‘The Physics of Star Trek.’
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So, let’s wait to see what other creation that he would make with time!