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| (...) I'll try that one next time my kids ask "why" a talking animal in an animated does something that makes no sense (for us humans, at least). Like, "How come Dory can't remember stuff?" (from our trip to "Finding Nemo") :-) James (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Nuts to that! How the heck did they breathe? Presumably the out-of-phase air would go right through them. I don't really like the "it's only a movie" excuse because it lets the writers off the hook too easily. A better phrasing might be (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| In lugnet.space, James Wilson wrote: -snip- (...) LOL, I thought the same thing when I saw that episode. There they are walking through walls but yet they are standing perfectly fine on the floors. It amuses me. -Dan (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) The (URL) Animatrix> is a good resource. The first Animatrix film, "Flight of the Osiris," has the hovership Osiris combatting Sentinels. They used machine gun turrets, similar to the laser turrets that Han & Luke use to shoot down TIE (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) I've always wondered about this (okay, not "always," only since Lucas established the timeline). How in the heck was the Empire able to ramp up production facilities to build such huge vessels, in the span of less than 50 years or so? In AotC (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| To my knowledge all we've seen is the EMP used in the first movie. There was also the laser thing that Tank used on Cypher, but I don't know if that sort of thing could be mounted on the exterior of the ship. I don't own the first movie, so I might (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) I don't have any hard numbers, but the beam of an ISD isn't quite 2/3 the length. It is a lot wider than I'd originally thought, but it's closer to a 28:45 ratio, as can be seen (URL) here>. (...) The 5 mile long SSD is a mistake. In TESB, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| I did some calculating ((URL) of large space ships to see how big they'd be at minifig scale. I got some interesting results: A minifig scale Star Destroyer would be about 121 feet long and 97 feet wide (guessing that its width is 2/3 of it's (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space)
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| I'll let those of you who are real Star Wars fans figure out what the name stands for. You can even pretend the "B" stands for "Bricks", if you absolutely need to. (URL) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Well, I think it's a far cry from the Dragonstar's interior, so that's a mighty compliment :-) I was definitely going for the submarine ethos, that overall impression. (...) They most certainly do. (...) Nope, the craft's physical design (and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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