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How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the set-phasers-to-awesome dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When George Lucas added the 'ring around the Death Star' effect to his 1997 re-release of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the revision was almost as hated as Greedo shooting first, and to boot was seen as a knock-off of the seminal 'Praxis effect' in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). But a debunking astronomer claims that the Federation got it wrong and the fan-boys should thank Lucas for adding some scientific accuracy to his fictional universe."

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  1. FanFight! by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cue the guys with pointy latex ear extensions flipping off the guys with the neon glowing plastic swords.

    1. Re:FanFight! by killmenow · · Score: 4, Funny

      The only problem is the most interesting fan fights will be argued in Klingon and whatever the fuck Chewbacca's language is called so nobody outside of the master debaters will understand a word.

  2. Hadn't Noticed by Rary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ring around the Death Star? Greedo shooting first? You mean, people actually watch the butchered editions of Star Wars?

    I had no idea.

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  3. Re:But the real question is: by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Neither, due to mismatched physics.

    http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1759

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  4. Re:Yeah, that bullshit by psyclone · · Score: 4, Funny

    VrrrrrWhooosh!

    (That's the "sound" of a TIE fighter flying over your head, in space.)

  5. Re:I don't care about science in this case by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Acceptable? Getting rid of the matte outlines that were visible in VHS Star Wars IV. Not acceptable? Adding a CGI tauntaun.

    Of course not. Everybody knows that the Tauntauns all live on Hoth, and they didn't even go there until episode V.

  6. Re:And So Offered Another Inaccuracy by mcgrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    How Vi trumped Emacs!

    Have I been here too long?

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  7. Re:And So Offered Another Inaccuracy by spazdor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you must've been! C'mon out of your vault, the war is long over and we all use nano now.

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  8. Re:And So Offered Another Inaccuracy by MadKeithV · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you are saying it's an Eastern?