Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test 386
DangerTenor writes "The cast of the show MythBusters chat about their pasts with ILM, talk about some Star Wars myths (Can you avoid freezing to death in a blizzard overnight by gutting a dead animal like a tauntaun and getting into its carcass?) and why R2-D2 is the perfect sidekick." Not as cool as our interview, but pretty neat.
The Real Myth (Score:5, Funny)
Deathstar (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Starwars and the crew (Score:5, Funny)
Talk like this, I do (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That Tauntaun thing... (Score:5, Funny)
You mean would be cruel to the animal. The intern, on the other hand, well, they're interns!
The only good wars... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Animal Guts (Score:2, Funny)
Of course you could always try washing it...
Re:Deathstar (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That Tauntaun thing... (Score:2, Funny)
"Uhh, Han, we're on Tatooine, and that's a Gungan"
"Exactly!"
Death Star? (Score:2, Funny)
Imagine, a Beowulf Cluster of Death Stars.
Re:The lightsaber myth... (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, but of course! [howstuffworks.com]
nice try, but faulty. (Score:3, Funny)
Real myth needs busting (Score:5, Funny)
(Personally I suspect some post-Imperial propagandist doctored the data).
Re:The lightsaber myth... (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly there is some kind of quantum coherence going on in the plasma that effectively makes each lightsaber a single giant fermion. Then the Pauli exclusion principle keeps any two lightsabers from occupying the same space. This is why the only thing (other than Chuck Norris) that a lightsaber can't cut through is another lightsaber.
Re:That Tauntaun thing... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Water Phase Diagram (Score:3, Funny)
Awesome! At my next party, I'm going to have forged ice cubes! And I'll put 'em in the grill and fry steaks with them!
One must wonder why water cores don't exist in real life...
Oh but they do [overclock.net]!
Re:nice try, but faulty. (Score:5, Funny)
I find your lack of faith disturbing...
I spent the night in a Tauntaun (Score:2, Funny)
Does Leia prefer StormTroopers? (Score:3, Funny)
At first... (Score:1, Funny)
The drivers for a superlaser were unfortunately closed source, and the Empire didn't want to bother with reverse engineering or tools such as ImpDSWrapper.
I think there were also problems in implementing ACPI with the huge reactor core. Every now and then, the tractor beams went into standby mode, and garbage crushers would unexpectedly shut off.
Re:Deathstar (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
"Sir. We are being attacked by approximately a dozen rebel fighters. But they're so small they're avoiding our turbo lasers"
"Very well. We will attack them ship to ship. Launch 6 Tie Fighters"
"6 sir? You do realise that we have another 7194 don't you?"
"Good point. Get another 3 ready for launch".
have you ever smelled the insides of a dead animal (Score:3, Funny)
Can you survive overnight in a blizzard by gutting a dead animal and getting into its carcass?
"It would have to be a pretty big animal, but have you ever smelled the insides of a dead animal?" Belleci asks. "I think I'd rather freeze to death."
Hmmm, yes I have. It smelled like chicken or fish, depending on whether i was smelling a dead chicken or a dead fish.
Boy, that was a tough one but I think we have that myth busted!
Re:Deathstar (Score:5, Funny)
I don't have a good reason. It just seems like that's what the Empire would use.
Re:Don't read if you love Star Wars (Score:3, Funny)
Much is also made in the movies about the Jedi's ability to detect such subtle nuances of mood and body language that they can tell when someone is lying. So why is it that they can't see when a supposedly non-Jedi senator is very obviously and transparently plotting to take over the Republic and wipe out an entire culture using his Sith powers? It seems to me that if the Jedi really had any Force powers at all, they would get cramps every time Palpatine entered the room, seeing as he's positively dripping with the Dark Side.
Ok.. let's get serious now... (Score:5, Funny)
And if any of the discussion DOES involve that bikini for GOD sake please take pictures!
Re:Sounds like a social occasion (Score:2, Funny)
- He's not dead. He's resting.
- Resting?
- Yeah. He's tired after a long squall.
- Alright. If he's resting we'll just wake him up then. POLLY! Polly Parrot! Wake up! Polly. I've got a nice cuttle fish for you. *bang* *bang* POLLY!
- Now he's stunned.
Re:That Tauntaun thing... (Score:5, Funny)
That's why experienced hunters let the ARROW do the killing.
Re:That Tauntaun thing... how to test it (Score:5, Funny)
HYPOTHETICAL SATIRICAL SITUATION:
Lab Technician: "Hello, Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, are you ready to participate in the test?"
Bush: "I dunno. Guess so."
Cheney: "Get on with it!"
Lab Tech: Yessss.... Allllrighty, then. Here are your implements, gentlemen..." (Hands each of the men a plastic serrated butterknife and a spork).
Bush: "What're these for? Is it lunchtime? I like lunchtime."
Lab Tech: "NOT exactly, although it COULD be. It depends. We'll see how it goes. Ok, gentlemen, in your hands are a plastic picnic knife and spork. Once I leave the room, we'll dial the temperature down to around 50 below, and you'll use your implements to cut open and prepare a large, hairy animal to use as an emergency sleeping bag. We'll open the doors in the morning. Good luck!" (dashes out of the room and slams a door).
Cheney: "Hey, FUCK YOU! What the hell's going on around here? This was supposed to be a meeting with lobbyists!"
Bush: "I'm ascared, Mr. Cheney. Somethin's not right around here..."
Cheney: "Oh, for God's sake, grow a spine already. HEY! LAB NERD! WHAT ARE YOU UP TO UP THERE??"
Lab Tech (in a glass enclosed observation deck): "Ah! You noticed me! Well, I'm preparing your sleeping bag."
Cheney: "What the hell are you babbling about?"
Lab Tech: "Look to your left, gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Mama Jones. She's a 1,000 pound polar bear who has been chased out of her environment by your energy policy. She hasn't been fed in several weeks and we've put her cubs in a room a few hundred yards from here. We took the liberty of spraying you with some of their scent, just to make things more interesting."
Bush: "Wait; you what?"
Cheney: "Bullshit! This is nuts. Open the door or I'm going to rip your nuts off and feed them to you!"
Lab Tech: "That's the spirit! Well, good luck, gentlemen. Ah, here's Mama Jones now."
Mama Jones: "ROOOOOAOR!"
Lab Tech (to fellow grad students): "Ok, I've got twenty to one that Cheney shoves Bush at the bear within the first five minutes, do i have any takers? Yes! Apu, for fifty! I can cover that...
Re:Don't read if you love Star Wars (Score:2, Funny)
There is an easier way to ruin the whole thing, a good old fashioned machine gun.
Fire a spray of three bullets and unless they happen to all be in exactly the same line one will get through. Have an army of Storm Troopers firing bullets and your Jedi will be riddled with holes. Even if the Jedi were capable of blocking them with some super fast lightsaber action theyd melt in the beam so no deadly deflections.
Man the Emporer would kick himself if someone mentioned that idea to him. Guess the're so newfangeled they forgot about a good ol Uzi.
Re:Ridiculous (Score:2, Funny)
Light Sabre Jacuzzi (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Things to know about Chuck Norris: (Score:3, Funny)
Enough of this. Someone post some Kari Pictures (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Real Myth (Score:1, Funny)
>>Ever wonder if there are others of Yoda's race, and if they speak the same way?
>Oh, the horror.
Imagine the yoda-men in the office, around the water cooler.
Yoda 1: Hello, Bill.
Yoda 2: Morning, Hank.
Yoda 1: Finish that proposal, you did?
Yoda 2: Yes, finally. Quite a chore, it was.
Yoda 1: That Henderson, he is a slave driver, eh?
Yoda 2: Yes. To kick his ass I'd like. "There is no try, only do." Asshole he is.