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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.
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?
Practical jokes? I'm thinking the SW angle is an excuse to get Kari into a slave Leia outfit.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
because third grade english, pass I did not.
You mean would be cruel to the animal. The intern, on the other hand, well, they're interns!
"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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(ever hit a deer, your car will stink for at least a year)
Of course you could always try washing it...
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"We'll cut it open to keep you alive, Luke"
"Uhh, Han, we're on Tatooine, and that's a Gungan"
"Exactly!"
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Would it be possible to have something as big as a death star? How about Star Destroyers?
Imagine, a Beowulf Cluster of Death Stars.
Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
Ah, but of course!
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
by then there weren't any Jedi around. It being a sad ancient religon and all.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
(Personally I suspect some post-Imperial propagandist doctored the data).
the fact that two lightsabers can clash in a duel mean that there is a solid-like boundary to the blade that is inviolable
Clearly there is some kind of quantum coherence going on in the plasma that effectively makes each lightsaber a single giant fermion. Then the Pauli exclusion principle keeps any two lightsabers from occupying the same space. This is why the only thing (other than Chuck Norris) that a lightsaber can't cut through is another lightsaber.
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
Is that where the term "Luke Warm" comes from?
With enough pressure yes, water will solidify.
Awesome! At my next party, I'm going to have forged ice cubes! And I'll put 'em in the grill and fry steaks with them!
One must wonder why water cores don't exist in real life...
Oh but they do!
Just junk food for thought...
"I spent the night in a Tauntaun and all I got was this lousy lightsaber!"
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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.
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".
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!
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).
Much is also made in the movies about the Jedi's ability to detect such subtle nuances of mood and body language that they can tell when someone is lying. So why is it that they can't see when a supposedly non-Jedi senator is very obviously and transparently plotting to take over the Republic and wipe out an entire culture using his Sith powers? It seems to me that if the Jedi really had any Force powers at all, they would get cramps every time Palpatine entered the room, seeing as he's positively dripping with the Dark Side.
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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.
"The tauntaun was already dead."
- He's not dead. He's resting.
- Resting?
- Yeah. He's tired after a long squall.
- Alright. If he's resting we'll just wake him up then. POLLY! Polly Parrot! Wake up! Polly. I've got a nice cuttle fish for you. *bang* *bang* POLLY!
- Now he's stunned.
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
"While bow hunting you often have to track an animal the next morning because a bow wont kill it right away.
That's why experienced hunters let the ARROW do the killing.
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 seem to have looked in to it a bit too much.
There is an easier way to ruin the whole thing, a good old fashioned machine gun.
Fire a spray of three bullets and unless they happen to all be in exactly the same line one will get through. Have an army of Storm Troopers firing bullets and your Jedi will be riddled with holes. Even if the Jedi were capable of blocking them with some super fast lightsaber action theyd melt in the beam so no deadly deflections.
Man the Emporer would kick himself if someone mentioned that idea to him. Guess the're so newfangeled they forgot about a good ol Uzi.
Sound of music? Yes, that's quite a good idea, really. I'd finally be able to find out once and for all if the absurd myth of children obeying other people can possibly be true.
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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Things to know about Chuck Norris: 1. Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. 2. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits. 3. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs. 4. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain. 5. Chuck Norris defines love as the reluctance to murder. If you're still alive, it's because Chuck Norris loves you. 6. Chuck Norris isn't hung like a horse. Horses are hung like Chuck Norris. 7. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death. 8. Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. 9. There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris. 10. Chuck Norris can win a game of Monopoly without owning any property. 11. There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
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