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   Your Name to Dimensional Traveler   
   Re: What do they say at end of Earth Sto   
   23 Dec 17 19:39:49   
   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2017-12-23 02:43:51 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:   
   > On 12/22/2017 5:34 PM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 21:07:26 -0400, Madlove  wrote:   
   >>> On 11/09/2017 08:58 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>> On 2017-11-10 00:43:18 +0000, xaurreaux@gmail.com said:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Actually its KLAATU BARADA NICKTO, and no self-respecting SF fan   
   >>>>>> would have gotten it wrong.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Hear, hear!!!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Actually that is wrong. It's really "Klaatu Barada Nikto" ... there's no   
   >>>> "c" in the last word ...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> unless perhaps you're watching an animated remake on Nickleodeon.  ;-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> George Lucas also used those three words as names for some of the aliens   
   >>>> in the Star Wars movies.   
   >>>   
   >>> And he used "THX11-38" as the license plate number of Richard Dreyfus'   
   >>> character's car in American Graffiti.   
   >>   
   >> Supposedly THX-1138 appeared in some form in every George Lucas movie.   
   >   
   > It was the call sign of one of the Stormtroopers that Luke and Han took   
   > armor from in the original Star Wars.   
      
   Sort of. It is apparently "THX-1138" in the movie novelisation and some   
   of the script versions, but in the final on-screen movie it was changed   
   to "TK-421". There are a few other places where it appears though:   
      
      
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