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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Joanne Corsano"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:phq09594n1h91ba5bv8s7ba58ecj31ce58@4ax.com...   
   >   
   >> "It's the ship that made   
   >>the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!"   
   >   
   > Reminds me of  the Star Trek episode in which Kirk gives "1 to the 4th   
   > power" as a measure of something supposedly big.   
      
   LOL. Of course, science fiction films and serials are bung full of   
   pseudo-science and things which may not be impossible as such but simply   
   don't make any sense. To take one example, still from "Star Wars", one could   
   of course construct robots that walk on legs instead of rolling on wheels;   
   it is just very hard to understand why anyone would do anything so   
   impractical. It certainly made things easier for the Ewoks; they could   
   simply trip the robots up with ropes, and once down they were indeed down.   
     The death-dealing meachanisms in H-G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" (the   
   ones the Marsians sat lodged in) at least used *three*legs, for more   
   stability, but even so, it does seem rather innefficent when one thinks   
   about it. Unscientific, even, though any suggestion to that effect would   
   have driven H. G. Wells nuts; he was a comnfioremed worshipper if technology   
   and science who prided hismelf on his rationality.   
     Incidentally, I understand that some people became very annoyed at the   
   makers of "Star Wars" when they taped and analyzed the languge of the Ewoks   
   and discovered that it was simply phrases in two different languags (I   
   believe it was Burmese and Tibetan), mixed together at random by mechanical   
   means.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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