Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:42 pm

In order to get out of a black hole, you need force (not "the"), period. The closer you are to the event horizon, the speedier you have to go to get out (since I don't know of any way to affect the mass of his ship). That's whipping past a single one, and Han was bragging about how he could outrun "Imperial cruisers" so I'll give it a "maybe."

On the flip side, maybe he's going through a cluster of them in which case it's like a ship navigating a field of whirlpools. If you're small enough and have the balls to slalom between them or ride the outskirts of one and use it to get through another ... then maybe.

In either scenario even if it's distance, the ultimate reason for the twelve parsecs being impressive is that it has to do with it taking less time to travel from point A to B in space. If you take it to be a measure of distance, then you leave open the possibility he inched his way past whatever obstacle there was over months of time while everyone else who took 13 parsecs just hyperspaced for another hour.

Edited By Malcolm on 1450741570

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:44 pm

No matter who has the best explanation, NdgT can go fuck himself because... well just because fuck him.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:47 pm

GORDON wrote:No matter who has the best explanation, NdgT can go fuck himself because... well just because fuck him.

NdgT:physicists::CSI:crime scene investigators.

Edited By Malcolm on 1450741647

Post by **thibodeaux** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:43 pm

http://www.breitbart.com/tech....e-tyson

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:46 pm

Here we are on Earth, the perfect habitat for humanity with a million random variables somehow ending up in our favour...

Yeah, we can also talk about some of the ones not in our favour. Furthermore, calling this planet "perfect" for us is bullshit. It suffices, at best, and that's only for a few billion years.

...the most Tyson can say is: “Every account of a higher power that I’ve seen described, of all religions that I’ve seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.”

Well, the universe doesn't want anything, it just happens to be harsh and inhospitable, including a few spots in our own backyard which are uninhabitable without serious tech cheats. Maybe god likes obstacle courses. Kind of a bitch move, though, when the obstacles are lethal on occasion.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:55 pm

Here we are on Earth, the perfect habitat for humanity with a million random variables somehow ending up in our favour...

Change some of those variables and we'd have evolved to be different to fit that new environment and this alien version of humanity would have an alien version of NdGT tweeting:

Here we are on Earth, the perfect habitat for humanity with a million random variables somehow ending up in our favour...

Edited By TPRJones on 1450760140

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:03 pm

I immediately thought of y'all.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:41 pm

Seeing it the 24th.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 3:07 pm

Finally saw it.

Initial impression: in my list of favorite Star Wars movies, this is #2. I think. It might be #1. It's a close call.

I reserve the right to promote it to #1 depending on how certain things started here shake out in #8.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 3:14 pm

I liked it the first time when it was called "A New Hope."

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 4:48 pm

Yeah, but you hate all that is good in the world, Malcolm. It's part of your charm. :p

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 4:54 pm

TPRJones wrote:Finally saw it.

Initial impression: in my list of favorite Star Wars movies, this is #2. I think. It might be #1. It's a close call.

I reserve the right to promote it to #1 depending on how certain things started here shake out in #8.

That's about how I feel. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here without relying on the nostalgia bit.

But if you look at this as New Hope for a new generation, why not remake the prequels, too, right?

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 5:04 pm

TheCatt wrote:But if you look at this as New Hope for a new generation, why not remake the prequels, too, right?

Eh, sure. With those there's no way to make them worse, so why not?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 5:27 pm

TPRJones wrote:
TheCatt wrote:But if you look at this as New Hope for a new generation, why not remake the prequels, too, right?
Eh, sure. With those there's no way to make them worse, so why not?

You can make anything worse. I don't think Rob Schneider was in any of them.

Post by **Leisher** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:34 pm

George Lucas sold Star Wars to "white slavers".

I think we can officially call Lucas a bitter old man.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:04 am

Leisher wrote:George Lucas sold Star Wars to "white slavers".

I think we can officially call Lucas a bitter old man.

Post by **TPRJones** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:05 am

Yeah, he's just pissed that Disney did what he couldn't anymore: make a good movie.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:06 am

“They looked at the stories, and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans,’” Lucas said.

Buncha fucking white slaver assholes.

Post by **Leisher** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:19 am

Rumor has it Disney may release the original trilogy on Blu-Ray without Lucas' tampering. How pissed will he be then?

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:36 pm

Leisher wrote:Rumor has it Disney may release the original trilogy on Blu-Ray without Lucas' tampering. How pissed will he be then?

THAT would be a service to mankind.