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That Drakh mothership is ludicrously large. I'm tempted to say something about penises, but, I won't.
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Yet you just did, so feel absolutely free to share whatever marvellous insights into the male genital organ you may have.
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Especially since Magnus's sig contains a link to a penis enlargement site....
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"All ships, concentrate your fire on that Super-Star Destroyer!"
The ENTIRE FRIKIN' REBEL FLEET was shooting at the thing for quite a while, not just one A-Wing!
Does it really matter that the whole fleet was firing. They WERE just using good old "Light Amplification (by) Stimulated Emission (of) Radiation", i.e. lasers
Heh, I wonder if a fraction of Omega would "undergo m/am annhilation" if we poke at Star Wars a bit more
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quote:Originally posted by Mucus:
quote:Originally posted by Omega: AAGGGHHHHH!!!!
"All ships, concentrate your fire on that Super-Star Destroyer!"
The ENTIRE FRIKIN' REBEL FLEET was shooting at the thing for quite a while, not just one A-Wing!
Does it really matter that the whole fleet was firing. They WERE just using good old "Light Amplification (by) Stimulated Emission (of) Radiation", i.e. lasers
i never noticed any lasers being used in Star wars.
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Lessee.... there were turboLASERs, and LASER cannons, and quad LASER turrets... gee, I can't imagine when they had lasers in "Star Wars"...
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Does it really matter that the whole fleet was firing. They WERE just using good old "Light Amplification (by) Stimulated Emission (of) Radiation", i.e. lasers
Yes, because anything with "laser" in the name must be a laser as we understand it, even though its observed properties are nothing like those of lasers...
But the ship didn't appear to be havily damaged, it looked absolutely intact when the A-Wing hit it.
Except for the distinct lack of shields protecting the bridge, which indicates a rather large hole in the shield, which indicates rather heavy bombardment considering the absurdly high power ratings of shields of STANDARD Star Destroyers as derrived from the zero-damage asteroid impacts from TESB...
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Lessee.... there were turboLASERs, and LASER cannons, and quad LASER turrets... gee, I can't imagine when they had lasers in "Star Wars"...
that's what they were called, but they sure as hell weren't lasers. are photon torpedoes lasers? afterall, they apparently involve photons in some way.
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The Drakh mothership didn't look nearly that large onscreen. Especially when a single Whitestar started shooting at it and the whole thing blew up.
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i thought that a single White Star destroyed a Drakh carrier, not the mothership... been a while since i saw it.
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Back in the seventies, lasers were a relatively young invention (and thus not quite understood by the general public), making them ideal big bang deathrays for the less technically inclined. If Georgie had possessed any notion of real-world physics, he might've also had the sense to come up with more imaginative names for his energy weapons -- so pointless arguments like this one could have been avoided.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: Yes, because anything with "laser" in the name must be a laser as we understand it, even though its observed properties are nothing like those of lasers...
Then again, "observed properties" is a bit of a misnomer isn't it?
In the movies (and I'm talking in general science fiction terms here) we hear sounds in space, but we all know there isn't. We can see ships manuver at speeds faster than light, but never have to worry about "ourselves" only being able to see at the speed of light. We see ships that dialogue says are kilometres apart dogfighing as if they were metres apart. We see the Federations best ships of the 23rd century looking like they were held up by string.
Eveyone knows that these inconsistencies arise, but if we accept these conventions, they make the movies more dramatic, more lively, more exciting. Even in movies set in the modern era, we stretch the truth, bullets set off sparks everywhere, airplanes fly impossibly close together without having accidents and having to land on Chinese soil, Tom Cruise can jump off a speeding motorcycle into another person doing the same thing.
I contend that the visuals of all science fiction, indeed much of modern television is inherently flawed, and not representative of "reality" even as defined by the appropriate movie.
Furthermore, I contend that a films dialogue or text is often more "canon" than the visuals, having gone through less abstraction and dramatisation.
Just an off topic thought.
(As for Prismatic EdipisReks, I'm sure that Trek fans would gladly concede that photon torpedos are light-based if Wars fans conceded that lasers are well....lasers. Afterall, Trek fans do have over 500 hours of weird particles, exotic weapons, and technologies that pick and choose from. The loss of one is hardly relevant)
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quote:As for Prismatic EdipisReks, I'm sure that Trek fans would gladly concede that photon torpedos are light-based if Wars fans conceded that lasers are well....lasers
well, i'm both a trek and wars fan, and i concede nothing!
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