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Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test
DangerTenor writes "The cast of the show MythBusters chat about their pasts with ILM, talk about some Star Wars myths (Can you avoid freezing to death in a blizzard overnight by gutting a dead animal like a tauntaun and getting into its carcass?) and why R2-D2 is the perfect sidekick." Not as cool as our interview, but pretty neat.
(Yeah, I am a Star Wars Geek.)
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
Wow, I would _not_ want to see what Jamie and Adam would do if they had lightsabers. Just imagine the practical jokes!
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Does talking backward smarter make you sound? Hmmmmm?
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Does the Deathstar run Linux?
Indeed, the pressure *would* be significant, and the water would either be in a solid or supercritical liquid phase - it'd be pretty unlikely that you'd find it possible to drive a submarine through it in either case, though, even if the submarine itself would be constructed to withstand the pressure and temperature at the core.
Of course, IANAP, though, so YMMV.
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Yea they do stink, a lot (ever hit a deer, your car will stink for at least a year)....But, an animal of that size (essentially an animal that is big enough to act as a mount for a human) would probably retain enough warmth to keep a person (inside of it...yuck) at a decent temperature for 4-5 hours.
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"Oh yes, we spent the evening in a most delightful tauntaun... The neighborhood was just beastly, though - I don't know how we survived."
I suppose the viability of the tauntaun-as-pita approach (smell not withstanding) would depend in large part on the [overall] specific heat of tauntaun innards. (I'm assuming here that the insulatory qualities of the fur would be pretty good.) The light sabre would be necessary to cauterize the incision, lest [even more] unpleasant leakage occur.
To sum up: eewww.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
because third grade english, pass I did not.
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I for one welcome our new [insert main topic] overlords.
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures." -- Bart Simpson
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Huh? Jamie Pierre just broke the skiing cliff-drop record with a 245-footer in Grand Targhee. I haven't seen the video yet, but supposedly he didn't even land it cleanly. (The New Zealander who previously held the record hit a 225-footer into slush, landing on his back with a backpack full of foam.)
C'mon, a 50-footer won't even get you into a movie nowadays unless you throw at least a 720...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Could you survive a 50-foot fall into a snow bank like Luke Skywalker did?
;)
"It's plausible, depending on the exact conditions," Imahara explains. "You could survive, but you'd be pretty badly hurt. Let's just say you probably wouldn't be jumping up on a tauntaun and riding to the next outpost, if you know what I mean."
*cough*cough*
I must be weird. I just watch the movies and don't talk about them much if at all. Tech and stuff in Star Wars is just too much of a stretch, what I'd refer to as fantasy, rather than Sci-Fi. Trying to explain stuff from Fantasy, down that path madness lies.
so, y'see, if greedo shot first, han wudda been blinded anyway, so...
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Can a weapon like a lightsaber actually exist?
Even the most uninformed fan knows that it's not just the light, but it's plasma being shaped into a cylindrical shape approximately 1 meter in length (according to the Episode III novel) that gives the lightsaber its power. (Yes, and the Force, but let me just talk about the saber for the moment...)
One of the problem has to do with the state of the plasma, often called the fourth state of matter. It is by no means solid, and yet the fact that the lightsaber has a distinct shape when activated and the fact that two lightsabers can clash in a duel mean that there is a solid-like boundary to the blade that is inviolable. On the contrary, often we see the blade cutting through other objects and body parts with frightening ease. (Just ask Count Dooku.)
Which brings me to another issue: The power required to confine the plasma in a blade-like configuration (be it magnetic or otherwise) may well exceed the power to generate the blade in the first place. It seems almost redundant for a weapon of this type to be built, as the builder can control and direct the flow of plasma with a device no more than 30 centimeters in length. As someone else said regarding construction of Dyson Spheres, "If you can build it, you don't need it."
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The first Death Star held 27,048 officers, 774,576 crew including troopers, pilots and crewers, 400,000 support workers and over 25,000 Imperial stormtroopers. It also carried assault shuttles, Skipray Blastboats, strike cruisers, drop ships, land vehicles, and support ships as well as 7,200 TIE fighters.
As one can see, it's heavily armed. Imagine a botnet of Death Star zombies!
For surface protection it sported 2,000 Turbolaser batteries, 2,500 ion cannons and at least 700 tractor beam projectors, plus, of course, the superlaser.
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Clearly, we're talking about Windows.
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Would it be possible to have something as big as a death star? How about Star Destroyers?
Imagine, a Beowulf Cluster of Death Stars.
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I'm going to ruin it for you... In episode IV, the Storm Troopers set their blasters for stun and fill the room up with blaster energy (it was represented as concentric circles), and capture Princess Leia. Why on Earth wasn't this the default setting? Much is made in the movies about the Jedi's ability to block blaster fire with their light sabers, (and in Vader's case his hand). It seems like the obvious tactic against a Jedi is set for stun, knock the Jedi out, set for kill, kill the Jedi. No muss, no fuss. But they never do this...
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assuming you can use The Force.
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Water Phase Diagram
Note regions VIII-XI. With enough pressure yes, water will solidify. HOWEVER there is a temperature point at which the water will no longer solidify (not shown on this scale although you can see the "liquid dome" is increasing as temperature increases. Eventually if you go far enough to the right there is a point where only vapor exists, regardless of pressure.
So while GP is correct that pressure will solidify water there is also extreme temperature that will counteract the pressure. One must wonder why water cores don't exist in real life...
by then there weren't any Jedi around. It being a sad ancient religon and all.
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Take a lot at the Museum of Science's exhibit about Star Wars. They have plenty of props and there is also some exhibits that are related to the movie.
http://www.mos.org/doc/1857
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
(Personally I suspect some post-Imperial propagandist doctored the data).
I think the real goal would be to dump the animal's viscera and use the large rib cage and fat/hide as a sort of shelter or smelly windbreak. The damp gutsy stuff in an opened-up belly would very quickly be a big old heatsink in the sort of wind and temps portrayed in the movie.
If you really a fun portrayal of this sort of thing, watch the evade-the-British-captors scene in the 1995 version of Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson. That's a great movie, even without light sabers. Ye Old Ferrous Cutlery does just fine for those Baroque combatants. Tim Roth does a particularly slimy job as the primary villain. Highly recommended.
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My dad was in the paratroopers (I was born at Ft Campbell). On one jump, one of his fellow paratrooper's chute didn't open, and neither did the reserve.
Dad says the fellow fell 2000 feet (divide by three for meters), landed in a muddy, plowed field, and didn't break a single bone! He was in the hospital for his bruises for only 2 days (this was in 1951).
OTOH my Grandfather worked for Purina, and went four floors down an elevator shaft onto a concrete bottom (roughly fifty feet) in 1959. He lived, but he would have beeen better off if he'd died; he was a complete cripple and severely brain damaged, but he lived. But he didn't land in snow or a plowed, muddy field.
So yes, it's completely plausable to not only fall fifty feet into a snowdrift, but to get up and ride that funny looking horse.
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Developed only after the Jedi were already exterminated, since there is no sign of this setting prior to episode IV. Neener!
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Seems like their was a show on the science channel about the science of star wars and star trek. Hardly a myth.
2000 Turbolasers and 2500 laser cannons isn't that much when you consider the size of the deathstar. A sphere with a diameter of 120km (according to Wikipedia) would have a surface area of over 45,000 sq.km. That leaves more than 10 sq. km. per weapon.
I guess that's why Darth Vader had to send out the TIE fighters...
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"I spent the night in a Tauntaun and all I got was this lousy lightsaber!"
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plus, it blew up
Exactly my thought. However, I'm wondering how they could imitate this kind of situation. Afterall there's no chance they'll kill some animal in some cold place and put one of their interns in it over night. That would be pretty cruel taking into account that it's just done "to be sure"...
My understanding is that Buffalo were shot and gutted as emergency shelters in pioneering days, a bio lean-to, but maybe that's urban, uh no, non-urban myth. Further, that was to get out of the wind and rain, which seems quite plausible, not to get at a blanket of guts which seems to contradict the general survival rule of don't get wet.
As far as getting a Buffalo carcass, that may actually be easily. Some Buffalo are raised and harvested as meat on private ranches. Catalina Island for example, not far from the Los Angeles area, offers Buffalo burgers at some of the local shops.
What's creepier -- flirting with her brother, or flirting with the guards?
The drivers for a superlaser were unfortunately closed source, and the Empire didn't want to bother with reverse engineering or tools such as ImpDSWrapper.
I think there were also problems in implementing ACPI with the huge reactor core. Every now and then, the tractor beams went into standby mode, and garbage crushers would unexpectedly shut off.
Prove it.
Star Wars is pure myth and eye candy with a pseudo sci fi coating. Analyzing or myth-busting it is just silly. What's next, Sound of Music? Wizard of Oz?
...as my eyes drifted to my faithful kanine of 20 years. The burning twisted sheets of metal left from my snow plow in the Artic were quickly fading like a flickering candle. Me and Sparky huddled closer together as the relentless pounding of sub zero weather tugged at our nutts like some twisted foreplay by the grim reaper's hands...
The radio was dead. I could even feel my blood hardening like frost as I drew Sparky near. I knew what I had to do. I pulled out my buoy knife, gave Sparky a remorseful kiss on the forehead, and gutted him like a voodoo China Man cleaning a chicken and grinding it's magical liver into fertility powder. As Sparky's intenstines oozed all over me, sending bits of warm steam into the dark midnight sky, I couldn't help but recall the good times we had while eating grass together in the backyard. But it was over. I had done the unthinkable. No companion had served me so reliably and faithfully since that Cabbage Patch doll I took the closet and banged like a bunny rabbit as a teenager...
Twenty three long hours had passed, and I knew Sparky would want me to fight on. So, I skinned his hide like removing the peeling from an apple and fastened myself a dog skin parka. Even the head was left intact and I could peer through the white haze of snow through his own two sockets I had just scraped clean. With one hand shielding my dog face against a stiff biting wind, I used the other to munch on some of Sparky's old frozen testicles like a cold marshmellow. I thought to myself, I can do this. I can make it. I WILL FIND A WAY!
Could you survive a 50-foot fall into a snow bank like Luke Skywalker did?
Sure you could. You could fall up to 130 feet if there was enough snow.
as well as 7,200 TIE fighters.
"Sir. We are being attacked by approximately a dozen rebel fighters. But they're so small they're avoiding our turbo lasers"
"Very well. We will attack them ship to ship. Launch 6 Tie Fighters"
"6 sir? You do realise that we have another 7194 don't you?"
"Good point. Get another 3 ready for launch".
It's a story.
;)
Relax.
Can you survive overnight in a blizzard by gutting a dead animal and getting into its carcass?
"It would have to be a pretty big animal, but have you ever smelled the insides of a dead animal?" Belleci asks. "I think I'd rather freeze to death."
Hmmm, yes I have. It smelled like chicken or fish, depending on whether i was smelling a dead chicken or a dead fish.
Boy, that was a tough one but I think we have that myth busted!
What about ftl (faster-than-light) travel? I think they might want to ask about that.
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Ha ha ha... "Luke" warm!!
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Image of 245ft jump here:? attachmentid=9926&stc=1&d=1138488902
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/attachment.php
That's a grid of, what? Three kilometers between turrets? Seems dense enough, considering the size of the thing.
What's the range of a turbolaser? Approximately half the lasers could bear on any given target? How many lasers do you need?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
You are right, its not like han squeezed in there too, and as much as Han is the man I doubt he would survive the night out in the opened on Hoth.
Now a side note from a pissed off Star Wars fan. Why is it that R2 has these really cool thrusters in the past (Ep 1-3) but then he falls in the swamp on Dagobah? Why didn't he just fly to land? That has been bothering me since I saw him with the thrusters. Someone please tell me or I will have to personally hunt george lucas down.
The Empire Strikes Back IMO was the best of all Star Wars movies, and I always wondered about Han & Crew on the Mynock Hunt breathing (using only flimsy masks and oxygen tanks) inside of a giant alien worm's mouth. I think they would have decompressed and died instantly...Oh well, I guess that's one myth that may never be busted.
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...wasn't how they survived the entire evening. It was just to keep Luke warm while Han built the shelter... Geeze
Well, two things.
One, the warmth was more useful in that he was already partially frozen and his core temperature was much reduced, in trying to avoid frostbite.
Second, putting him inside a warm animal reduced the wind chill to nil by protecting him from the bitter cold - until the temperature of the animal insides dropped significantly.
The concept is that a cold-weather animal would have a hide that reduced heat loss more than his current heat state.
I suggest we field test it using Emperor Bush and Lord Cheney in the coldest climate we can find and see if either survives a 72-hour period of temperatures below -40 centigrade/celsius/fahrenheit.
I'm willing to risk it if we use them as test subjects.
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No mention of the absolute Worst. Star Wars tech. Ever. I suppose midichlorians are so bad they needn't be dignified with a debunking.
I nearly walked out on Episode I because of them. Reducing The Force to a symbiotic critter in your bloodstream is just plain wrong. I don't know what kind of crack Lucas was smoking when he came up with that concept. But I suspect it would do permanent brain damage, hence the quality of the Prequel Trilogy.
Lack of exposure to this substance would explain why Genndy Tartakovsky actually did a good job on the Clone Wars shorts.
Midichlorians. I hate those guys.
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...Dig a cave in a snowbank, pack the snow down nice and hard, wrap up in as many blankets as you can, and light candles. The temperature will get up around 40 or 50 and you'll be ok. It's an old trick, but a good trick -- snow is an excellent insulator.
:)
An alternate technique, if the snow is deep enough, is to dig a circular pit around a tree, down to the base of the tree, and tie a tarp around the top of the hole to keep the wind out. The snowbank trick is better, though, especially because you can pile up your own snowbank, pack it, and tunnel into it.
Can mobs of various primitive, semi-sentient beings repeatedly defeat large imperial armies (presumably with state of the art training and equipment), by throwing random objects at them?
Can ships exploding in space not only make a lot of noise, but also not annihilate other ships in close proximity?
Can you really cover the same distance in varying numbers of parallax seconds?
Can all religion be explained with symbiotic micro-organisms?
sic transit gloria mundi
next thing, the mythbusters will check if there are wookiees on Endor's moon.
Wait; is your suggestion along the lines of stuffing Bush into Cheney? Or the other way around?
Artoo was in top shape in the new trilogy. He worked on the Queen's flagship in Ep 1, and served alternatively a senator and a Jedi in Eps2 and 3. By Ep 4 he had spent twenty-some years on the Tantive IV and was full of dents (check out the dome in the beginning of ANH). I have no doubt that he was practically falling apart by the time that Luke took him over. And Luke wasn't the mechanic that Anakin was. He couldn't even hack a way to see the whole damned recording!
Or it just could be that the boosters were removed because they weren't needed on the Tantive IV. I can't imagine that setting off thrusters on a small spaceship would be a good idea.
...cannibalism is gastronomy.
Bullfighting is like Gladiators and the day it disappears I'll be happy. And I'm Spaniard.
Wait; is your suggestion along the lines of stuffing Bush into Cheney? Or the other way around?
No, that would be an invalid experiment. Neither, to my knowledge, has sufficient body hair to test the hypothesis. I was thinking more along the lines of a cold-weather adapted large animal or two, such as a polar bear, especially since they're dying off anyway due to global warming and using them in the experiment might help them adapt to reduced resources.
However, the problem arises in finding the controls. I suggest we just randomly pick up some US citizens and use them, since they seem to have no problems in giving up their rights, as the controls.
We should also retest using non-haired large animals (like seals), and non-insulated non-cold-weather-adapted animals (like say giraffes).
Should all the test subjects (human) die during the trials, we could note if they survived the first (optimal) trial with the large hairy cold-weather animals.
Admittedly, since the T count is fairly low, we couldn't call this statistically significant, but we could use it to design a larger study if there appears to be a possible effect.
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Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
Plenty of pictures of Tory :-)
Insightful? Come on. It would be obvious to a monkey that's the entire point, why does it need to be explained?
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
Farnsworth: "This is a chance for Fry to test out my experimental anti-pressure pill."
Fry: "I can't swallow that!"
Farnsworth: "Well then, good news! It's a suppository."
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Do ANY of the myths they debunk involve Kari wearing that bronze bikini princess leia wore in Ep 6? If not then I really don't see the point in any further discussion.
And if any of the discussion DOES involve that bikini for GOD sake please take pictures!
Polymorphism -- It's what you make of it.
In their experiments, did they consider that the characters in Star Wars are not human beings, but members of an alien race with unspecified physiologies?
People do not blow up when exposed to a vacuum. They rapidly lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen and outgassing through the lungs.
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If it gets 2 warm, you will die. The snow will melt and you well get wet and die.
DId I mention you could DIE!
good. This knowledge would have saved a troop of scouts from freezing to death.
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could of ran out of fuel and had them removed so he couldn't escape the scrappers
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Here in Central Illinois, the story is well known of a circuit riding preacher who was caught out in the sub-sero temperatures of the initial blizzard that started on December 20th, 1830. He managed to survive the night by killing his horse and using it's body warmth. For over two weeks the temperature stayed below -12 degrees F. The article here doen't have that story, but it does describe the conditions that Winter.
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I always just assumed his next owner stripped him for parts.
Wow, did the guy that survived a 2000 foot drop continue on to become a superman and save the world from evil villians?!
Meh.
"You are right, its not like han squeezed in there too, and as much as Han is the man I doubt he would survive the night out in the opened on Hoth. "
correct, which is why he set up the shelter.
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"Midicholorion" is based on the real cellular biology term "Mitochondrion", but you probably already knew that.
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midichlorian
The word "midi-chlorian" appears to be a blend of "mitochondrion" and "chloroplast", two organelles found in real cells and thought to have evolved from bacteria as endosymbionts inside other cells, as purported in the endosymbiotic theory. Lucas has indeed stated that the midi-chlorians are based on the endosymbiotic theory, and it appears that in the story of Anakin Skywalker, he wanted to create a more modern "virgin birth" in the Star Wars saga that was as much based in science as in philosophy and religion, with the mythic "givers of life" being microscopic lifeforms, rather than gods.
More at BBSpot: Lucas Confirms Midichlorian Inquiry
Anakin himself added most of those quirky mods to R2-D2. After he was out of the picture, R2-D2 and C-3P0 were assigned to Captain Antilles on the Tantive IV, where there was probably little use for some of those oddball (and probably high-maintenence) additions.
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I believe the empire *DID* have plans for a beowolf cluster though.
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Clearly they don't consider a small, one man fighter to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
Bur with global warming, you're not going to be able to find any (naturally occuring) temperatures below -40
Though I think a better name would be Tommy Tauntaun
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
BORING! Why don't we do the first round of tests MY way:
HYPOTHETICAL SATIRICAL SITUATION:
Lab Technician: "Hello, Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, are you ready to participate in the test?"
Bush: "I dunno. Guess so."
Cheney: "Get on with it!"
Lab Tech: Yessss.... Allllrighty, then. Here are your implements, gentlemen..." (Hands each of the men a plastic serrated butterknife and a spork).
Bush: "What're these for? Is it lunchtime? I like lunchtime."
Lab Tech: "NOT exactly, although it COULD be. It depends. We'll see how it goes. Ok, gentlemen, in your hands are a plastic picnic knife and spork. Once I leave the room, we'll dial the temperature down to around 50 below, and you'll use your implements to cut open and prepare a large, hairy animal to use as an emergency sleeping bag. We'll open the doors in the morning. Good luck!" (dashes out of the room and slams a door).
Cheney: "Hey, FUCK YOU! What the hell's going on around here? This was supposed to be a meeting with lobbyists!"
Bush: "I'm ascared, Mr. Cheney. Somethin's not right around here..."
Cheney: "Oh, for God's sake, grow a spine already. HEY! LAB NERD! WHAT ARE YOU UP TO UP THERE??"
Lab Tech (in a glass enclosed observation deck): "Ah! You noticed me! Well, I'm preparing your sleeping bag."
Cheney: "What the hell are you babbling about?"
Lab Tech: "Look to your left, gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Mama Jones. She's a 1,000 pound polar bear who has been chased out of her environment by your energy policy. She hasn't been fed in several weeks and we've put her cubs in a room a few hundred yards from here. We took the liberty of spraying you with some of their scent, just to make things more interesting."
Bush: "Wait; you what?"
Cheney: "Bullshit! This is nuts. Open the door or I'm going to rip your nuts off and feed them to you!"
Lab Tech: "That's the spirit! Well, good luck, gentlemen. Ah, here's Mama Jones now."
Mama Jones: "ROOOOOAOR!"
Lab Tech (to fellow grad students): "Ok, I've got twenty to one that Cheney shoves Bush at the bear within the first five minutes, do i have any takers? Yes! Apu, for fifty! I can cover that...
You want to put Bush into Dick? Did you fail sex ed?
Wrong dumbfuck. PETA on bees:2 22 1
http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=1
PETA on silkworms, and spiders(probably the least cute insect imagineable):
http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=1
It's tempting to try to try to grasp at others imagined inconsistencies when you yourself know deep down the inconsistency in yourself. You try to tell yourself that you are against inflicting torturous suffering for no good reason, but then you can't give up your little addiction to the yummy taste of burgers or the nice feel of wearing leather shoes etc.
Actually, ruminant entrails smell like...ruminant entrails. Definitely not like chicken or fish (or rotting chicken or fish).
> Wrong dumbfuck. PETA on bees:
> PETA on silkworms, and spiders(probably the least cute insect imagineable):
If you're going to go around someone a "dumbfuck", you probably ought not to make such a grade-school mistake as conflating spiders with insects.
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I always wondered why Luke didn't just stick his light sabre in the snow to create a nice, toasty light sabre Jacuzzi.
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While I would rather skip the bullfight also, my ethical sense says that a winning bull should go to pasture (like a few lucky turkeys here in the States that get a "pardon" from the President every year), and that a losing bull should get eaten rather than wasted - as pet food if health regulations won't allow it for human consumption.
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I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out that "The Ruminant Entrails" would be a great name for a rock band.
If you don't cut the digestive tube open it should'nt smell much different.
While we don't know exactly where he came from or seen others of his species, it may be that Yoda's native language does make use of the OSV pattern that he tends to use, and he winds up reverting to that word order from time to time (he doesn't always speak like that, by the way).
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
Thank you
But I think it is worth all of us to remember the words of Joel and Mike from the Saterlite of Love.
"If your wondering how he eats and breaths and other science fact, just say to your self it's just a show and should realy just relax."
That said I recon a light saber uses a magneticaly confined plasma stream that flows over a force feild thus giving it plasma cutting power with a solid core.
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
I liked the explaination on the UK's Channel 4's big fat quiz of the year at Christmas. Someone said it's as if R2D2 had a nervous breakdown between the films, going from an action hero who can fly to someone who just goes around slowly beeping.
I remember, even as a little kid, thinking the manually aimed guns that seemed to stick out of open windows like a B-17 machine gun from WW II would be pretty hard to aim at space ships closing in at several thousand MPH as well as one hell of an air leak.
I would also note that even if the thrusters were still working by Ep. V, we're talking a relatively short fall here, with no more than a second to engage the thrusters. I'd have to go back and check exactly how long it takes, but I'd imagine that when he does use them he has a little more time.
Seals have fur. Try something like a dolphin, or a small whale.
Dolpins aren't arctic-climate. How about an orca?
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It's tempting to try to try to grasp at others imagined inconsistencies when you yourself know deep down the inconsistency in yourself. You try to tell yourself that you are against inflicting torturous suffering for no good reason, but then you can't give up your little addiction to the yummy taste of burgers or the nice feel of wearing leather shoes etc.
It's just a joke. It's okay to kill ugly animals, for any reason?!? If you took me seriously, you're seriously stupid.
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A friend of mine had an interesting theory related to the basically "immaculate conception" of Anakin by midichlorians. Remember when Sidious/Palpatine was describing his former master, Darth Plagueis, he mentioned that he was able to create life. What if the conception of Anakin was caused by Plagueis or Palpatine's use of this power?
Interesting thought...
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I believe this is precisely what they were insinuating.
I don't necessarily *like* it, but it does seem to be what they were insinuating.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Before you call me stupid, you need to brush up on your comedy skills. There are plenty of people who think that ugliness in an animal is justification for killing it. There are also plenty of people who believe that PETA are only interested in animal rights because animals are cute.
No, PETA is just a magnet for super crazy kill everyone but "The Enlightened" asshats and should not be suffered to live.
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