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by Terralthra
2007-10-19 06:10pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are ysalamiri wanked?
Replies: 71
Views: 8429

By the same token, you'd expect over the many millenia of the Jedi Order, someone would at least attempt to objectively study the Force. There is not a single reference to such a study anywhere in canon that I know of. If the answer is "it was done a long time ago and forgotten to the mists of ...
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 06:15pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are ysalamiri wanked?
Replies: 71
Views: 8429

That's a working theory, which would also explain (maybe) why they can still hunt Ysalamiri...they're not sensing the ysalamiri themselves, they're sensing the very tiny disturbance in the Force of the ysalamir's neutralization field? As I recall, the forests had some sort of effect which made senso...
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 06:08pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are ysalamiri wanked?
Replies: 71
Views: 8429

Not sure there's a self-consistent explanation for that. The vornskrs are not extinct, so they must have a way of finding and eating the ysalamiri still, whether it's by hunting the null-spots, or just using their eyes. They may still have a sense for force disturbances that allows them to track for...
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 04:02pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Dealing with ultra-libertarian idiocy?
Replies: 332
Views: 29528

Grah. Thinko. Allowance, not alliance.
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 04:01pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Dealing with ultra-libertarian idiocy?
Replies: 332
Views: 29528

Can we still take away his alliance?
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 03:53pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Dealing with ultra-libertarian idiocy?
Replies: 332
Views: 29528

All I said about name-calling was that it wasn't required in this case. If I didn't support insulting the stupid for being stupid, I wouldn't be here. Why not? He's about as dumb as it gets. Not only that but he's cruel and apparently rejects the idea that people intrinsically deserve human rights....
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 03:42pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are ysalamiri wanked?
Replies: 71
Views: 8429

Aha, just found it. "And abruptly, right in the middle of Han's last word, Luke felt a surge of awareness and strength fill him. As if he were waking up from a deep sleep, or stepping from a dark room into the light, or suddenly understanding the universe again. The Force was again with him. He...
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 03:24pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Dealing with ultra-libertarian idiocy?
Replies: 332
Views: 29528

All I said about name-calling was that it wasn't required in this case. If I didn't support insulting the stupid for being stupid, I wouldn't be here.
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 03:21pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are ysalamiri wanked?
Replies: 71
Views: 8429

So, if it's an evolutionary defence that doesn't work and these predators can sense through it anyway... why does it do retarded things like STOP FORCE LIGHTNING MID-FLIGHT? And how can the null area extend into fucking orbit when the area is so small in other situations? Is the first introduction ...
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 03:03pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Dealing with ultra-libertarian idiocy?
Replies: 332
Views: 29528

brianeyci wrote:
Terralthra wrote:Nope, no names. You conceded, that's good enough. :D
Who the fuck are you, one of his dumb as nails libertarian friends?
Um, no? The only conceivable way you could think that would be if you'd failed to read the thread, because I've posted disagreeing with him/her less than 3 pages ago.
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 12:12pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Dealing with ultra-libertarian idiocy?
Replies: 332
Views: 29528

Nope, no names. You conceded, that's good enough. :D
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 02:51am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Report board software problems here
Replies: 1357
Views: 747276

Confirming what Surlethe said. The icon-link to "go to unread posts" does not consistently update. Guessing a server-side caching issue?
by Terralthra
2007-10-18 01:29am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are ysalamiri wanked?
Replies: 71
Views: 8429

Um, did you read my post, at all? Er, they *can't* find them by omission, which is retarded. Don't blame ME because some IDIOT WRITER decided 'lol natural selection lol immune to force' and by fiat decided that's as far as it went. Frankly, you could train a predator to hunt by such an obvious signa...
by Terralthra
2007-10-17 10:29pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are ysalamiri wanked?
Replies: 71
Views: 8429

The way I remember it, the ysalamir are supposed to just be Force neutral, meaning the vornskrs can't find them with the Force. It doesn't mean they can't hunt them. It just negates their most effective tool for hunting. I would imagine that they could still find them using smell and sight. The eff...
by Terralthra
2007-10-17 06:22pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: How rich were the Jedi?
Replies: 20
Views: 4599

Sifo Dyas was able to commission an army. Do we have any textual evidence that this wasn't a down payment at the start, with the bulk to be remitted on delivery?
by Terralthra
2007-10-16 03:16pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Dealing with ultra-libertarian idiocy?
Replies: 332
Views: 29528

As regards property in specific, it is simply wrong to assert that libertarians value property above life. Libertarians believe in self-ownership, so your life is literally your property, and you have the right to expect and demand that your life, along with all your other property, be safeguarded ...
by Terralthra
2007-10-15 08:33pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Is the Death Star II weaker than Death Star I?
Replies: 62
Views: 14036

You will do far better if you just drop it, instead of trying to defend the reasonability of assumptions that you have already conceded turned out to be wrong.
by Terralthra
2007-10-15 08:07pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Is the Death Star II weaker than Death Star I?
Replies: 62
Views: 14036

Stun looks different because it is different. Stun is not a low-powered blast of the same type as the non-stun settings. Stun (blue donuts) are to the red blaster shots as ion cannons are to turbo-lasers. You'll note that the ion cannon shots are noticeably different visually from the typical TL sho...
by Terralthra
2007-10-15 05:45pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Is the Death Star II weaker than Death Star I?
Replies: 62
Views: 14036

The argument goes that Alderaan's pieces post-explosion moved in excess of 0.05c, but the fragments and debris from the Liberty and the other Mon Cal Cruiser destroyed by the DSII superlaser moved far less than that speed after they were destroyed. Assuming that both blasts were full power (assumpti...
by Terralthra
2007-10-15 04:01am
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Just when you start to forget why you hated Voyager ...
Replies: 84
Views: 17621

How many English words are actually references to some obscure historical or cultural precedent that we've actually forgotten? Take the word "marathon" for example; it is a reference to the ancient Greek city of Marathon, and the famous story of the runner who covered some incredibly long...
by Terralthra
2007-10-08 02:46am
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: More Trektardism
Replies: 2086
Views: 390908

Ceded.
by Terralthra
2007-10-08 02:20am
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: More Trektardism
Replies: 2086
Views: 390908

Not exactly. The energy imparted to Alderaan by the SL weapon is not kinetic energy (well, not all of it, anyway, cf. what is a turbolaser). Minus the kinetic energy of the blast, a good deal of the energy is assumed to be massless photons of one variety or another in an excited state. This energy,...
by Terralthra
2007-10-08 01:55am
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: More Trektardism
Replies: 2086
Views: 390908

Shit, JMSpock linked Darktard's website. :lol: Seriously, WTF is up with the Death Star being a chain reaction weapon? BTW, he says that the Death Star cant have all the energy necessary to blow up a planet because of recoil? (right?) Well, dont inertial compensators do something with that? Not exa...