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Re: star destroyer?
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Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:54:50 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@USWEST.saynotospamNET
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David Eaton wrote:
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> (Is it just me or are SW scales just plain dumb? I mean a 5 mile long starship?
> Why? A 100 mile diameter battlestation? The super laser doesn't need THAT much
> of a surrounding platform. It's got more than a hundred million square miles of
> floorspace in it! WHO NEEDS ALL THAT?
Well, here in America bigger *is* better, and so I guess Lucas naturally fell into
that trap trying to sell tickets;-) [1]
> Just think how much that would cost if it
> was all nice hardwood flooring... "190 planets' rain forests died in the making
> of the hardwood flooring of this Death Star"
LOL And think of the amount of Mop N'Glow you'd need;-)
> ... Just my random rant-- I love
> Star Wars, but Star Trek makes just a whole lot more practical sense about
> certain things)
I agree. ST:TNG et al have thought through life in Space *much* better than the
"fairy tales in Space", aka Star Wars.
> Dave
-John
[1] pardon my reference to another thread in another NG.
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