This is funny:PeteRasche wrote:I haven't looked around for confirmation on the intarwebs, but I heard on the radio that supposedly Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are all signed for the next movie.
I'll see you in hell!
This is funny:PeteRasche wrote:I haven't looked around for confirmation on the intarwebs, but I heard on the radio that supposedly Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are all signed for the next movie.
This was amusingOGSB wrote:This is funny:PeteRasche wrote:I haven't looked around for confirmation on the intarwebs, but I heard on the radio that supposedly Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are all signed for the next movie.
I'll see you in hell!
I had not realized that the same guy played the detective in Roger Rabbit; he was a vital part of setting the background when he explained that a Toon had killed Eddie Valient's brother (and partner) by dropping a piano on him.WaveProf wrote:http://todayentertainment.today.com/_ne ... -died?lite
The stories I have seen (like this one) keep saying the photons "behave like those in a lightsaber". What does that mean? No article I've seen goes beyond that. Are they saying that a broad beam of these photons can be controlled to emit from a device (sword handle), extend a certain predetermined distance, and act as a destructive beam that can cut through anything it touches?Yankeewave wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se ... s-invented
i think the obvious answer is a kill switch so that if your thumb is not on the button it turns off.PeteRasche wrote:The stories I have seen (like this one) keep saying the photons "behave like those in a lightsaber". What does that mean? No article I've seen goes beyond that. Are they saying that a broad beam of these photons can be controlled to emit from a device (sword handle), extend a certain predetermined distance, and act as a destructive beam that can cut through anything it touches?Yankeewave wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se ... s-invented
I kinda doubt it.
So here's my question: when an inexperienced person gets hold of a lightsaber, accidentally dismembers themselves (or beheads, or slices in two...), and falls dead to the ground, does the lightsaber land, and begin burning its way through the ground, and just keep going, down and down through the earth, until either the batteries run out or, I dunno, it reaches magma and burns up?
That is the obvious answer but the ones in Star Wars weren't built that way and the geeks I speak of would value "movie-authentic design" over safety.Yankeewave wrote:i think the obvious answer is a kill switch so that if your thumb is not on the button it turns off.PeteRasche wrote:The stories I have seen (like this one) keep saying the photons "behave like those in a lightsaber". What does that mean? No article I've seen goes beyond that. Are they saying that a broad beam of these photons can be controlled to emit from a device (sword handle), extend a certain predetermined distance, and act as a destructive beam that can cut through anything it touches?Yankeewave wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se ... s-invented
I kinda doubt it.
So here's my question: when an inexperienced person gets hold of a lightsaber, accidentally dismembers themselves (or beheads, or slices in two...), and falls dead to the ground, does the lightsaber land, and begin burning its way through the ground, and just keep going, down and down through the earth, until either the batteries run out or, I dunno, it reaches magma and burns up?
Saw this, this morning. AWESOME. My whole office is drooling over the pic of Carrie Fisher and her body-double sunbathing in the ROTJ costumes.
THE KID WHO TOOK THE SHOT JUST HAPPENED TO BE NAMED ‘SKYWALKER.’ Yep, same as our leather-daddy asthmatic boss. And he just so happened to be from the same planet as ol’ Chokey. And it turns out—we wasn’t even using his targeting computer when he made the winning shot! What a coincidence. . .
And—hey! Who was the guy pursuing the computer-less moisture-farmer? Oh, tjat’s right—it was Darth Vader, his dad! And he managed to spectacularly fail at taking out this first-time pilot, who just so happened to be his son. And know what else is weird? Darth Vader was the only survivor of the Death Star explosion. And with the death of Grand Moff Tarkin, that made Vader the number 2 person in the Empire! . .
Awesome if you read the whole thing . . .Sexless warlock monksOGSB wrote:NSFW (Language):
An open letter from a Death Star architect
THE KID WHO TOOK THE SHOT JUST HAPPENED TO BE NAMED ‘SKYWALKER.’ Yep, same as our leather-daddy asthmatic boss. And he just so happened to be from the same planet as ol’ Chokey. And it turns out—we wasn’t even using his targeting computer when he made the winning shot! What a coincidence. . .
And—hey! Who was the guy pursuing the computer-less moisture-farmer? Oh, tjat’s right—it was Darth Vader, his dad! And he managed to spectacularly fail at taking out this first-time pilot, who just so happened to be his son. And know what else is weird? Darth Vader was the only survivor of the Death Star explosion. And with the death of Grand Moff Tarkin, that made Vader the number 2 person in the Empire! . .
It's a (somewhat) creative thought-piece, and (somewhat) humorous, but it's nowhere near as funny as David Throne's work (which is not SW-related, but easy enough to find on the Internet).windywave wrote:Awesome if you read the whole thing . . .Sexless warlock monksOGSB wrote:NSFW (Language):
An open letter from a Death Star architect
THE KID WHO TOOK THE SHOT JUST HAPPENED TO BE NAMED ‘SKYWALKER.’ Yep, same as our leather-daddy asthmatic boss. And he just so happened to be from the same planet as ol’ Chokey. And it turns out—we wasn’t even using his targeting computer when he made the winning shot! What a coincidence. . .
And—hey! Who was the guy pursuing the computer-less moisture-farmer? Oh, tjat’s right—it was Darth Vader, his dad! And he managed to spectacularly fail at taking out this first-time pilot, who just so happened to be his son. And know what else is weird? Darth Vader was the only survivor of the Death Star explosion. And with the death of Grand Moff Tarkin, that made Vader the number 2 person in the Empire! . .
I like chocolate.Roller wrote:It's a (somewhat) creative thought-piece, and (somewhat) humorous, but it's nowhere near as funny as David Throne's work (which is not SW-related, but easy enough to find on the Internet).windywave wrote:Awesome if you read the whole thing . . .Sexless warlock monksOGSB wrote:NSFW (Language):
An open letter from a Death Star architect
THE KID WHO TOOK THE SHOT JUST HAPPENED TO BE NAMED ‘SKYWALKER.’ Yep, same as our leather-daddy asthmatic boss. And he just so happened to be from the same planet as ol’ Chokey. And it turns out—we wasn’t even using his targeting computer when he made the winning shot! What a coincidence. . .
And—hey! Who was the guy pursuing the computer-less moisture-farmer? Oh, tjat’s right—it was Darth Vader, his dad! And he managed to spectacularly fail at taking out this first-time pilot, who just so happened to be his son. And know what else is weird? Darth Vader was the only survivor of the Death Star explosion. And with the death of Grand Moff Tarkin, that made Vader the number 2 person in the Empire! . .
Me too, but there is not a lot of interest in discussions about peach.OGSB wrote:I like chocolate.