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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. Re:Historical Accuracy by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    None of it. Just like it wasn't news that the Air Force is using trained falcons to scare off other birds.

  2. In other news... by Infonaut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh argue about whose accounts of President Obama's secret worship of Allah is more accurate.

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  3. Re:Finally! by bonch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The story submissions have really been shitty today.

  4. And in other news... by northernfrights · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please? Anything??