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Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland

Posted by timothy on from the but-midichlorians-are-totally-safe dept.

First time accepted submitter wijnands (874114) writes Star Wars crews have started filming on the small Irish Island of Skellig Michael. This island, listed as a Unesco world heritage site, features the remains of a 6th century monastery as well as breeding populations of puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots and kittiwakes. Currently the Irish navy has deployed one vessel to maintain a two-mile exclusion zone around the island. Unesco is now concerned about what is going on the island, which is only visited 13 times a year by tourist groups, and has asked the Irish government for an explanation.

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  1. Good... by chinton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keep an eye on them so they don't do something stupid... Like Jar Jar. Or Hayden Christensen.

    1. Re:Good... by Nimey · · Score: 4, Funny

      Leia is a Disney princess now.

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  2. Re:Today I Learnt that... by just_another_sean · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seems to me that they have a nice cache of Star Wars alien/animal names all provided free of charge by the nice folks in Ireland...

    A herd of guillemots sure sounds scarier to me than a herd of nerfs. And I'm sure it's a total pain when your inside an asteroid and a bunch of filthy kittiwakes start chewing on your power system. And of course storm troopers riding around on storm petrels is too obvious to pass up!

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  3. Quote from the article by timrod · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We can't tell what the filming of Star Wars on the site will do to the wildlife."

    I can see a whole lot of lawsuits from all of the puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots, and kittiwakes who don't want to appear in a modern Star Wars film. Can't say I blame them, not after Episodes 1 through 3.

  4. Re:Not filming in America anymore? by PvtVoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks Obama!!!

    Obama is also responsible for why you can't get a date.

  5. These are not the filmmakers you are looking for. by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can go about their business. Move along...

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  6. worlds largest greenscreen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course they're filming in Ireland, its the worlds largest green screen.

  7. Puffins attacked the craft services tent, allright by RevWaldo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ~ They ate all the lobster salad and the chocolate chip power bars. Look at the feathers and tracks. It's just I never heard of them hitting anything this big before.

    ~ They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These tracks are side by side. Puffins always march single file to hide their numbers.

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  8. Re:Today I Learnt that... by itsdapead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Many puffins died to bring us this information...

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