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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.

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  1. The Real Myth by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does talking backward smarter make you sound? Hmmmmm?

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  2. Deathstar by damonlab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the Deathstar run Linux?

    1. Re:Deathstar by Frequency+Domain · · Score: 5, Funny
      Does the Deathstar run Linux?
      No, but if the rebels had only had an Apple laptop they could have uploaded a virus and bypassed that whole shoot down the cooling vent thing.
    2. Re:Deathstar by goldenorfe · · Score: 5, Funny

      The death star runs Gentoo, which is why they were behind schedule building it.

    3. Re:Deathstar by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      I always thought it ran VMS.

      I don't have a good reason. It just seems like that's what the Empire would use.

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  3. Re:Starwars and the crew by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

    Practical jokes? I'm thinking the SW angle is an excuse to get Kari into a slave Leia outfit.

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  4. Talk like this, I do by everphilski · · Score: 5, Funny

    because third grade english, pass I did not.

  5. Re:That Tauntaun thing... by IAAP · · Score: 5, Funny
    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"...

    You mean would be cruel to the animal. The intern, on the other hand, well, they're interns!

  6. The only good wars... by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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

  7. Re:The lightsaber myth... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 4, Funny
    Can a weapon like a lightsaber actually exist?

    Ah, but of course!

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  8. Real myth needs busting by squidfood · · Score: 5, Funny
    Given the angle of attack, exit wound, etc., did Han shoot first?

    (Personally I suspect some post-Imperial propagandist doctored the data).

  9. Re:The lightsaber myth... by radtea · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  10. Re:nice try, but faulty. by Penguinshit · · Score: 5, Funny


    I find your lack of faith disturbing...

  11. Ok.. let's get serious now... by jbuilder · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  12. Re:That Tauntaun thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  13. Re:That Tauntaun thing... how to test it by TechieHermit · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  14. Light Sabre Jacuzzi by triclipse · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  15. Re:Things to know about Chuck Norris: by splatterboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  16. Enough of this. Someone post some Kari Pictures by boot1973 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank you