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(...) An (un)fortunate side effect of the lightsaber is that victims who are merely wounded seem unlikely to die of a grisly infection, what with the cauterization and all. It's a real shame, too, as a full-blown bodyrot can really get your point (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Yeah, bad directing call on Lucas' part there. The Sand People run *after* we see the shot of Obi-Wan, making the viewer think that it's Obi-Wan that they're running from, when in fact, they're running from what they think is a Kryat Dragon. (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I don't remember where I read it, probably the novelization, but it was suggested that Obi-Wan was immitating the scream of a Kryat (sp?) dragon which would be something the Sand People normally run from. Obviously looking at him he wasn't a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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As I am preparing myself for the Attack of the Clones DVD to come out, something suddenly occurred to me. Remember back in Episode IV A New Hope (The first Star Wars Movie for you novices out there) when Luke was being beaten and robbed by the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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"Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:H42Gxx.7An@lugnet.com... (...) To me it looks like it is a 2x4 piece, so in one plane it will be flush with a 45deg slope and in the other with an 18deg (new-ish 2x4) slope But, I hope (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Yes. Exactly this movie. You know... this starship of Ripley.. ;) Rene (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) On the bottom right side of the chart: Sovereign Class (Enterprise-E) Galaxy Class (Enterprise-D) Ambassador Class (Enterprise-C) Excelsior Class (Enterprise-B) Constitution Class (Enterprise-A and Enterprise-nil) (...) Huh? Do you mean the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Actually I did NOT creat it. This was created a few years ago as a "public domain" comparison chart for use in the 'versus' newsgroups. (alt.startrek.vs.starwars for example) (...) -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Very nice ! But I'm missing the USS Enterprise starships. And what about this starship from Alien ? Thanks. Rene (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) (URL)It is a rather nice chart for its accuracy and its simplicity. ~That's amazin' Thanks sooooo much for creating it!!! --==Richard==-- James Wilson also created: (URL) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Given the size and number of tangents the other thread took, I started a new one so all interested persons would get a good 'heads up.' This is a very accurate comparison chart. (At least as far as you can go with fictional source materials.) (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Yeah, James, I know what you mean! I didn't mean to come across as being so militant about this stuff. Believe it or not, I don't sit and obsess about SW scale and such, or spend lots of time researching it (heck, I've only made it through a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) I have to admit it, I've been out-geeked. And on a subject I would never have thought of as controversial. Going home now to polish my pocket protector. It's lost some of its luster... James (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) Fair enough, and I enjoy a good sci-fi tale as much as most geeks. I just get a big kick out of it when people start arguing about the size of the "real" prototype from a movie. Especially the ones that are completely CGI! Or cartoons - ever (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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Maybe our clamoring for split slopes finally sunk in? ;-) Now all they need to do is make split versions of all the train slopes, and John Neal's head will explode over all the new 8/10/14/20-wide possibilities ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That's what I really dislike about SWTC. He pulls some factoid that sounds right, and uses it as though it were fact. I first noticed that on his description of AT-AT stride length, but also on his AT-AT height description, and (IIRC) some of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) True, but good science fiction has enough grounding in reality to make it believable and maintain continuity with itself. While Curtis Saxton takes this to an extreme, I find nothing wrong with using the best reference possible to ascertain (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) Actually, it would be 33 feet long (see my previous posts)! -Brian (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, my latest post, responding to Jason, out-geeked all of ya! James, i'd recommend that you compare the pic in the link below to the schematic in your above link. It shows how horrible and off-scale "schematics" can be! (URL) why I don't (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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In lugnet.starwars, Brian Tobin writes: <major snippage> (...) ROTFLMAO!!! "Truth?" It's not called Science _Fiction_ for nothing!!!!! That said, there's way too much information there. James (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
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