I don’t know if you’ve seen it yet- but the apes take down an elk with spears. Also, a bear. One presumes that wildlife rebounds in the human vacuum.
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“This anecdote about filming a sci fi movie in the pre-CGI era becomes a
lot more important if you’re trying to take Star Wars semi-literally”
Well there’s your problem. Stop doing silly things like that. He patterned his spacecraft on WW II dogfights, for god’s sake! They can’t move like that in the absence of an atmosphere.
One of the things I loved about Bablyon 5 is that by and large their spacecraft actually moved like spacecraft.
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I had the exact same thought this morning and also went searching for the clip to post but couldn’t find it.
What kind of cruel God would create a whole planet defined by just one topographical feature?
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What kind of cruel God would create a whole planet defined by just one topographical feature?[/quote]
The cruel god of Limited Imaginations.
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[quote=“catgrin, post:31, topic:37557”]The Atacama Desert in Chile is about the closest we can get to Tatooine on Earth.
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Nah, this is probably the closest we can get on earth.
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Sankton?
That and a guy with a prehensile penis using it to cheat at cards.
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Sci Fi God.
It’s his trademark, as exemplified by the phrase “That morning it was raining on the planet Mongo.”
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The stories and movies that have some huge, predatory creature that lives in a desolate environment with no supporting ecosystem always makes me smack my head and mutter obscenities. In the end, I just have to move on so I can mutter about the other stupid fallacies and contrivances in the plot.
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Maggie! Shhh! You’ll wake George Lucas up! And we just finally put him down for a nap, too.
The last thing we need is for him to come up with some half-assed reasoning for something that he should have thought of properly long-ago, in a galaxy far, far, away.
Midichlorians! Harumph!
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Personally, I don’t think we need any more traveling exhibits about “The Science of Star Wars” or “The Science of Harry Potter”. What we need are more stories that pay heed to the laws of physics. The ecology of Banthas is as sketchy as the economics of Jawas driving around collecting and selling robots that fall from the sky.
This Disbelief suspension, (suspended) came to me in another fashion when I saw the original Classic trek playset
and realized that this was even more ‘canon’ than any reimagined blueprint. The rest of the ship was just made up of alloy of imagination, and no amount of aspie wishful thinking could make this ship of dreams fly. In GalaxyQuest, the actor is really talking about the difference between aeronautical engineering versus the art of storytelling.
So Lucas needed an alien planet, but he needed one on the cheap. Deserts are cheap. He needed something to point the camera at, so he invented Banthas and Sandcrawlers, neither of which have any reason to be in that environment, other than to carry the action along. It’s frustrating to me that these choices should get any more scrutiny than that, especially when actual desert economies and biomes are so fascinating!
(pant pant pant… /rant)
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Also, the EU says that Hoth is tectonically and volcanically quite active. The reason given on Wookieepedia is due to Hoth’s elliptical orbit causing tidal flexing which keeps its core nice and hot, as well as fracturing its icesheet and creating elaborate cave systems. The taun tauns ate “fungus” that grows around volcanically active areas.
In all honesty, Hoth seems somewhat plausible when you compare it with Tatooine. It’s got lots of water and a very large thermodynamic gradient due to it’s orbit. It reminds me of the hydrothermal vent ecosystems on the deep ocean floor on earth.
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No wonder it couldn’t work. The designers forgot the toilets.
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Humans are native to Earth and freeze to death or die from heatstroke all the time. Horses are adapted for jogging and running, and yet riders manage to ride them to death quite nicely.
Of all the Hoth-issues I have the Tauntaun dying isn’t one of them.
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Exactly, or like if Enceledus was bigger and had a breathable atmosphere.
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You just run the Replicator in reverse, “Computer, one clean arse.”
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I love this!
Also, it explains the crappy coffee.
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That’s actually a sensible use of transporter technolgy. Have someone teleport in place and remove stains from clothing, sweat, etc.
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