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30 Years of Star Wars Technology

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-star-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this month, Computerworld Australia checked out the exhibition of 30 years of Star Wars history at Sydney's Powerhouse museum. They also have a pictorial look at what's on display: one of the largest collections of Star Wars memorabilia combined with real-life examples of how such technology is being applied for business and social advancement."

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  1. Phasers are for sissies... by fruviad · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd rather have a sonic screwdriver any day of the week...

    1. Re:Phasers are for sissies... by Glonoinha · · Score: 5, Funny

      Jesus this thread is pathetic.
      There's a pretty good reason for all of the above : Star Trek is a damn television show. Star Wars is REAL LIFE.

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  2. Star Wars tech? by religious+freak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I happen to like Star Wars, but in my mind it was never about the tech, at all, nor was it even about space. Star Wars is almost completely story driven, IMHO.

    Trek has the tech focus.

    /me runs away

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  3. not the most impressive article... by tpjunkie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The exhibition starts with the juxtaposition of the Millennium Falcon, which can travel between galaxies effortlessly,... "

    Ok, one would assume that being in "a galaxy far far away" would mean that the story took place within that galaxy, although they never specifically said this, it is a logical assumption that the author seems to have missed.

    "Another is dubbed "dataless" and uses nuclear fusion as the fuel. It is a concept that dates back to the 1970s and one originally from the Interplanetary Society."

    Here they somehow seemed to have confused "Daedalus" in an impressive homophone that had never even occurred to me before seeing that.

    thats as far as I got before closing the tab in disgust

  4. Han trolled first by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    30 years, sigh. How many parsecs is that?

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  5. Re:sorry to be pedantic but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It hasn't been 30 years. It's been 31. The movie was released on 25th May 1977 in the US, and 27th October 1977 in Australia.

    The term isn't pedantic it's anal.