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Striker in waiting |
Exactly. Google it and you'll see Disney's genius. In concentric rings. (We're talking about the planned community that was never built - not the theme park.) -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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 --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Look at Sun City, AZ. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Yeah, I'm a nerd, and I notice this a lot. My favorite is the explanation of how Han Solo 'made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.' I think they just got the terminology wrong (implying time, whereas parsec is a measure of distance; not time). Then, the nerds came out with this explanation:
TrekNerds (I am more of a Trek guy than SW; but I like both) get into this a LOT. They went to RIDICULOUS extremes to explain why the Klingons in The Original Series looked different than they do from The Motion Picture forward. OF COURSE, the answer is "they had better make-up and a bigger budget," but they even made a Star Trek: Enterprise episode to explain that there was some stupid virus (or some other *ss-pull) that physically changed their appearance. It's one of the more stupid 'explanations' that never NEEDED to be explained. What makes it worse, is they dedicated an entire show plot to it, when it was never necessary in the first place. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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I wonder if they will incorporate the Kessel Run and the above rationale into the Han Solo movie to make the explanation canon and all. | |||
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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
Bank on it. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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I wouldn't count on such a complicated explanation. It could be as simple as, the kessel run is 12 parsecs long because it has to go around some nebula cloud of dense asteroid field. He did it in less than 12 by going through than around. | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
"Look, Kids... Big Ben!" I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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But what does that have to do with speed? Han was citing that incident as an example of the Millenium Falcon's speed, not it's navigational adroitness. | |||
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The retcon seems to be about making it a distance record than a time record, so his claim could be shown the way Scurvy described it. Then again, this is a discussion for someone else's thread. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
I'm goin' with this  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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In a commentary track on the Star Wars Blu-ray release, George Lucas stated that ships in the Star Wars universe can't travel in straight lines while in hyperspace due to collisions with celestial objects. Thus, distance is an important factor in how quickly a ship can get from point A to point B. The Millennium Falcon's superior navigation computer allowed it to travel shorter distances between points and arrive faster. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
If you imagine the core production activity of any community whatever it may be, the logical layout of people and resources to support that activity would be structured as circles around that activity prioritized by whatever or whoever needs to be close to the activity. A circle encompasses the most area per linear feet of boundary, so that maximizes the are given to the production activity. Then concentric circles around it gives equal distance of travel to everyone per given circle. As populations increase, there comes a break even point where it's more economical to go establish a new geographic locus of activity than to be on the last layers of concentric circles around a hub. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Sorry, Chief, didn't mean to hijack the thread. | |||
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