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OMG, you found it! Thank you!
You have no idea how many years I've been trying to find that.

Apparently, PA-BA-FAWHOOM is the sound that a star destroyer makes when it explodes. At least according to some vintage Star Wars comic that had a star destroyer explosion in one panel, with the onomatopoetic rendition PA-BA-FAWHOOM written over the explosion (as part of the drawing itself, not as p...

Must be awkward trying to land such a ship on any surface. Wouldn't it be more practical if the "head" was rotated by 90°? Like a... well... hammerhead shark? Is there any conceivable in-universe explanation for that design, other than "it just looks cool"?

I know something that would make Star Wars 500% better, but you'll flame me for it. Get rid of the force entirely. Make Star Wars be about spaceships, strategy, tactics, personal and collective heroism on both sides, heavy and light machines of all kinds... Make it be about WAR, among the STARS, not...

A lot of food (up to 40%) is wasted. Part of it spoils during transport, but a whole lot is just thrown away because it doesn't look pretty enough. Once people realise that they cannot afford to waste food, they will start eating vegetables that don't look as pretty as what we are used to see in tod...

- It must have FTL travel. No dystopia where humanity is confined to Earth, unless it's only during the first few episodes of a series. - The main characters should be mortal. No Star-Dreck-style main characters that are invulnerable and morally infallible. If the story demands it, characters should...

I don't think it requires too much explaination. In most Earth armies, especially ones made up of many joined political entities, there were vast differneces in uniforms of the same armies based on household units, regional influences, the availability of certain metals/fabrics over the course of a...

-The holsters were worn on opposite sides in ANH and ESB, and were all over the place (or sometimes absent) in RotJ. That reminds me of the Emperor's arrival on the second DS. Did you notice how some of the stormtroopers are holding their carbines the wrong way? Some point to the right, some to the...

Havok wrote:I'm assuming the TIE Fighter pilots are officers. They have it on their helmets.

AT-AT drivers in Empire have it on their helmets, pretty much negating the idea that it is a Death Star patch.

You're right, I never noticed that.
Damn, there goes my conspiracy theory.

It's very elegant and all, but... there's one thing about it that has bothered me for years. Did you notice that, in the films, it only appears on the uniforms of the lowest-ranking enlisted personnel, and only on the second Death Star? It's not emblazoned on the stormtrooper's armour, nor etched on...

the greenish (I believe it's called olive khaki, for pedants) seems to have been interchangable with the grey, with some scenes shpwing officers of very similar ranks wearing either. Are you sure it's not just too bright or too dark lighting desaturating the hue? I always felt that the colour of al...

I'm confused about what the actual colour of Imperial uniforms is supposed to be. In episodes IV-VI there seem to exist four shades: olive-greenish-grayish for high-ranking officers; black for low-ranking officers and enlisted; gray for technicians (and vehicle crews?); and a rather ugly shade of be...

Octopi is as wrong as walri, doofi, autobi and toysauri.

DEATH, it's only a spider if it has eight legs. What makes you think these are legs? For all we know, these might be heads or tongues. Personally, I like to think they are penii... Sorry: penes... I mean: penises!

German satire magazine Titanic , as always, with a totally tasteless commentary on the issue here (it reads "Surprise! Another slide to the right in Austria" - partially funny because his car flew from the road on the right side) What's so tasteless about that? I think it's quite a tastef...

I don't expect him to become a martyrlike symbol, he died in a common accident, he wasn't shot at a rally. Furthermore, it was his own fault. He was driving at 140 Km/h where only 70 Km/h were allowed. Another Good Riddance from me. Since he was the only charismatic figure in his party, the BZÖ wil...

Are you fucking retarded? You admit that invoking the god concept doesn't explain anything, and then turn around and say it is one of merely several possible explanations? Let's be clear on one thing. Invoking god is no explanation whatsoever, and it is one of an infinite number of bullshit ideas t...

It wouldn't work. Ah, but that's not the real question. I believe that Teleros is already aware that it wouldn't work in our universe, that's why he's doing science fiction, after all. It's all about an alternate universe. The really interesting question is: how would stuff work in a universe where...

The question "what caused it?" would be meaningful for every single event in the universe, probably necessitating either that the age of the universe is infinite, or that it was created by a transcendent entity (a god), or that it was "born" from a universe that does know the co...

Apollonius, nothing with mass can travel at c because it takes an infinite amount of energy to get there; I'm aware of that, but Teleros already said he's not concerned with how much energy it would take. Maybe he uses alternate universes as fuel, or something. :) I find it hard to understand how i...

Have you considered what the effects of infinite mass would be on the internal structure of the ship? How would the crew survive under such conditions? The whole inertial system would instantly become a black hole, or worse (I'm sure there is even worse than a black hole, heh). I recently read a SF ...

I think you did well not to attack Catholicism per se. Questioning their religion never works with these people. Since he's one of those types who take their catechism literally, attack him with exactly that. Mention free will and how God expressly wants us to have a choice, and that it would actual...

---What effect would it have if I could, say, determine precisely the position and momentum of a particle? How would quantum physics work (or not) with such tools? There may be a definite answer to that question, but I don't think that it is known to anyone at this time. I suspect however that it w...

I believe you overlooked one detail. The Speed of Light, c, is not actually defined by the speed of light, i.e. by the distance a photon can travel within a given time. "Speed of Light" is a misnomer. I know nothing about the underlying math, but I think that light simply travels at the hi...

If you were a bit less condenscending, hostile and outright arrogant, maybe I would have reacted less defensively. Imagining someone as a madman, and then changing one's mind, should not equal the things you presumed. Perhaps you should stop projecting your own thoughts into other people's posts. Or...

Your problem is you think people who are otherwise insane aren't capable of being occasionally intelligent or even maintaining a semblance of normalcy, when this is decidedly not the case. The vast majority of the time insanity is not something that turns people into a gibbering Saturday morning ca...