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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 ...

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...

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...

Grah. Thinko. Allowance, not alliance.

Can we still take away his alliance?

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....

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...

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.

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 ...

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Terralthra wrote:Nope, no names. You conceded, that's good enough.

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.

Nope, no names. You conceded, that's good enough.

Confirming what Surlethe said. The icon-link to "go to unread posts" does not consistently update. Guessing a server-side caching issue?

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...

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...

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?

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Ceded.

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,...

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...