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Reply #740 on: July 29, 2019, 08:23:00 PM
Quote from: ChirpingGirl on July 29, 2019, 07:29:39 PM

I learned my star wars obsessed wifey doesn't understand how star trek works.


Wait: Star Wars and Star Trek are two different things?







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Reply #741 on: July 29, 2019, 08:39:59 PM
Quote from: MissBarbara on July 29, 2019, 08:23:00 PM
Wait: Star Wars and Star Trek are two different things?

It depends on how "Different" you mean.  If you ask the fans, then obviously one is vastly better, and the other is crap, but the pimary argument is which is which.

Not all that different, other than one being a TV show first.

Honestly, they're no worse than say Marvel fans vs Dc fans, and those basically are exactly the same thing with minor cosmetic differences.  They've ripped each other off so much over the last half century that there's really no reason to pick one over the other, but nerds gotta argue about something.


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Reply #742 on: July 29, 2019, 08:41:46 PM
Quote from: psiberzerker on July 29, 2019, 08:39:59 PM
Quote from: MissBarbara on July 29, 2019, 08:23:00 PM

Wait: Star Wars and Star Trek are two different things?


It depends on how "Different" you mean.  If you ask the fans, then obviously one is vastly better, and the other is crap, but the pimary argument is which is which.

Not all that different, other than one being a TV show first.


Actually, I was channeling my inner Penny...






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Reply #743 on: July 29, 2019, 08:42:31 PM
Penny Gadget?  I'm sorry, but I didn't get that allusion.


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Reply #744 on: July 29, 2019, 09:23:57 PM
It’s OK MissB, I know exactly to which you refer.



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Reply #745 on: July 29, 2019, 11:09:28 PM
Quote from: psiberzerker on July 29, 2019, 08:42:31 PM

Penny Gadget?  I'm sorry, but I didn't get that allusion.


No, Penny...

Actually, throughout 12 seasons, they never said her last name. But now it's Penny Hofstadter.








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Reply #746 on: July 29, 2019, 11:53:55 PM
Quote from: psiberzerker on July 29, 2019, 07:53:50 PM
Quote from: ChirpingGirl on July 29, 2019, 07:29:39 PM
WARP drive is faster when the plot needs it, slow as fuck when it doesn't.  :emot_laughing:

Exactly, every technology in Star Trek is a Plot Device.  Every problem is written from the start to be solved (In 40 minutes or less) by technobabble.  The "Aliens" started out Ethnic Stereotypes, and through later series, the Exploration became a central theme of cross-cultural interactions.

Then again, Star Wars is a Fairy Tale, an most of the technology (Pretty much anything outside of the Light Saber) has no explanation at all.  They're not "Shields," they're "Deflector Screens."  Only in Star Trek, they at least make something up to work the shield strength into the plot.  There's a power source.  Yeah, it's bullshit "Dilithium Crystals" but at least there's a reactor onboard.  They can run out of power, when has anything in Star Wars even run low on energy?  

What is the Millenium Falcon run on?  Fuel?  A cosmic cube?  Leprechaun tears?  We don't know, but this always bothered me.  The Owen farm had a Speeder that's just parked a couple feet off the ground.  Any exterior shot on Tattoine, where there's a speeder in the background, they never touch the ground.  How the fuck does that work?  Do they just have permanent magnets in the base, and there's an unmentioned superconductor right under the surface that makes 24/7 levitation without an energy source possible?

I have to laugh whenever Star Wars fans point out how Star Trek is "Unrealistic."  Okay, but the Force, that's believeable.  Uh huh?  

Plot devices exist to tell a story, as long as you don't overthink it.

What is the Millenium Falcon run on?  Fuel?

 :emot_laughing:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Fuel


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Reply #747 on: July 30, 2019, 12:07:52 AM
Quote from: MissBarbara on July 29, 2019, 11:09:28 PM
Quote from: psiberzerker on July 29, 2019, 08:42:31 PM

Penny Gadget?  I'm sorry, but I didn't get that allusion.


No, Penny...

Actually, throughout 12 seasons, they never said her last name. But now it's Penny Hofstadter.










But her dad is Robert Carradine?  So not Carradine?


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Reply #748 on: July 30, 2019, 12:11:03 AM
Quote from: ChirpingGirl on July 29, 2019, 11:53:55 PM
What is the Millenium Falcon run on?  Fuel?

Yes, exactly.  Fuel?  What kinda Fuel, Phoenix Down?



Oh, Rhydonium fuel.  Thanks for the link.  I didn't know it was called Rhydonium.

How many semi-parsec to the shittonne do you get outta that?  In the ship that did the Kessel Run in under half a parsec.
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Reply #749 on: July 30, 2019, 12:20:16 AM
Why did OB1 Kenobi, a hermit from a cave in the desert, have to tell Han Solo, an interstellar smuggler, that a T.I.E. Fighter was short range, doesn't have a hyperdrive, and can't be this far out in space?

HE'S A FUCKING SPACE SMUGGLER!!!  He smuggled, something.  In this Galaxy, and he doesn't know everything about T.I.E. Fighters?  I mean, good call gramps, but honestly, what?
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Reply #750 on: July 30, 2019, 03:19:00 AM


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Reply #751 on: July 30, 2019, 03:21:17 AM
I have a bad feeling about this...

Not really, I'm perfectly happy to devolve into nerd trivia until everyone's sick of it...

Indiana Jones was born on Hawaii.

(It's actually a funny story, Senior Speilbergo, and lucas were on Vacation when they came up with recreating one of those adventure radio serials, like The Phantom, Tarzan, et cetera.)
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Reply #752 on: July 30, 2019, 05:41:00 AM
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Released June 1, 1984.

Ghostbusters Released June 8, 1984.

Gremlins Released June 8, 1984.

CJ woulda had a great week if alive then.  :roll:


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Reply #753 on: July 30, 2019, 05:43:23 AM
I read Nineteen Eighty Four in 1984, and 2001 in 2001.


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Reply #754 on: July 31, 2019, 03:26:54 PM
I learned that Twitter really is the place mentally unhinged degenerate psychopaths hang out.

I'd get rid of it if it weren't for my friends and family.


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Reply #755 on: July 31, 2019, 04:12:43 PM
Quote from: ChirpingGirl on July 31, 2019, 03:26:54 PM
I learned that Twitter really is the place mentally unhinged degenerate psychopaths hang out.

I'd get rid of it if it weren't for my friends and family.

I quit Twitter for that very reason.  Just a bunch of people barking at each other.  Fortunately, my kids like Snapchat, so that’s how I communicate with them.  Wife uses FB messenger.  Not many people use SMS any more.  Mainly clients and robo dialers on that.


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Reply #756 on: July 31, 2019, 04:20:40 PM
Quote from: ToeinH20 on July 31, 2019, 04:12:43 PM
Quote from: ChirpingGirl on July 31, 2019, 03:26:54 PM
I learned that Twitter really is the place mentally unhinged degenerate psychopaths hang out.

I'd get rid of it if it weren't for my friends and family.

I quit Twitter for that very reason.  Just a bunch of people barking at each other.  Fortunately, my kids like Snapchat, so that’s how I communicate with them.  Wife uses FB messenger.  Not many people use SMS any more.  Mainly clients and robo dialers on that.

If I didn't have FB Messenger, I'd never know where my sons were - we have a family group chat, with the serious girlfriend on as well.

I use SMS when folk are away from wifi, or out of data.

I have two twitter accounts - one I use to argue with idiots (antivaxxers, flat earthers and such like), the other I use in combination with Instagram and FB to talk to sane people about constructive stuff.



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Reply #757 on: July 31, 2019, 08:06:56 PM
Quote from: ChirpingGirl on July 30, 2019, 05:41:00 AM
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Released June 1, 1984.

Ghostbusters Released June 8, 1984.

Gremlins Released June 8, 1984.

CJ woulda had a great week if alive then.  :roll:

We did go to the movies and see Ghostbusters and Gremlins shortly after their release. Didn't know it was that long ago. Have never seen any Star War movies though.

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Reply #758 on: August 01, 2019, 07:46:24 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on July 31, 2019, 08:06:56 PM
Have never seen any Star War movies though.



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Reply #759 on: August 01, 2019, 07:47:40 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on July 31, 2019, 08:06:56 PM
Didn't know it was that long ago. Have never seen any Star War movies though.

That explains it.  They literally start with "A long time ago..."


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