Star Wars City Doomed By Sand Dunes

An anonymous reader writes "The buildings and set of the fictional city Mos Espa are set to be swallowed by migrating sand dunes in the Tunisian desert. From the article: 'Ralph Lorenz, from Johns Hopkins University, US, together with Jason Barnes, from the University of Idaho, and Nabil Gasmi, of the University of Sousse, Tunisia, visited the Mos Espa site in 2009, and noted that part of a nearby set used in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope had already been overrun. Using satellite images of the site, they were able to determine the speed of dune movement, which is approaching the buildings once inhabited by such luminaries as Anakin, his slave owner Watto, and rival podracer Sebulba.'"

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Star Wars is infantile rubbish ..

[dgharmon]

Lucas and Spielberg both destroyed the US film industry. What remains are translations of comic strips and live action video games. It's all the average attention of that particular audience demograph (fourteen) that these "motion pictures" are aimed at . Apart from the first one, the entire "Star Wars" serial is infantile rubbish interlaced with endless shots cadged from Metropolis and the Sith/Jedi mythology being endlessly and (retrospectively) rehashed. eg. Yes Luke you are your own mother and father, as you went back in time had a sex change and married yourself. As Harrison Ford once put it: "You can type this shit, George, but you sure can't say it."