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Thraxis wrote:Further, if you look in any of the books such as Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology (C-Canon sources), they specifically detail that blasters have a limited number of shots per power pack. I think the rule of thumb is that game mechanics could be used for evidence to support some other conclusion, but are worth crap versus any other source.

Havok wrote: (although logically, Jedi should need to eat far more often than a regular person to keep their energy levels up*)

Stark wrote:

Thraxis wrote:Further, if you look in any of the books such as Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology (C-Canon sources), they specifically detail that blasters have a limited number of shots per power pack. I think the rule of thumb is that game mechanics could be used for evidence to support some other conclusion, but are worth crap versus any other source.

Some games go in the other direction, claiming blasters have quite small magazines and require constant reloading.

Batman wrote:

Havok wrote: (although logically, Jedi should need to eat far more often than a regular person to keep their energy levels up*)

Err-why? Jedi DON'T do the incredible feats they do by burning a fuckton more calories than ordinary humans, they do them by directly drawing on the Force.

Darth Fanboy wrote: I think Hav is saying that "logically" Jedi should consume more calories but he isn't necessarily implying that they do because in this case the Force defies logic.

Batman wrote:@Stark
See the edit. And I don't think they ever mentioned tibanna being involved on the personal weapon scale? It would make sense, given that hand weapons seem to behave pretty much like starship ones, but I don't think that was ever actually stated. If it WAS then of course my bad.

Batman wrote: There's NO WAY for Jedi to do the things they do by simply burning more calories than ordinary humans (no matter by how much).

Thus, no, there's no reason to assume they do.

Batman wrote:

Havok wrote: (although logically, Jedi should need to eat far more often than a regular person to keep their energy levels up*)

Err-why? Jedi DON'T do the incredible feats they do by burning a fuckton more calories than ordinary humans, they do them by directly drawing on the Force.

Havok wrote:

Batman wrote:

Havok wrote: (although logically, Jedi should need to eat far more often than a regular person to keep their energy levels up*)

Err-why? Jedi DON'T do the incredible feats they do by burning a fuckton more calories than ordinary humans, they do them by directly drawing on the Force.

Uh, then why do they move their legs at super speed when they run in TPM and not just levitate down the hallway?

Why do Luke and Yoda both show physical exhaustion after lifting objects? Why was Qui-Gon exhausted after dueling with Maul on Tattooine?

I mean, seriously, you're a fucking idiot. You burn more calories just from walking faster than normal.

Bounty wrote:I'm pretty sure we see Jedi being physically exhausted from activity, so unless you want to claim that's Force Panting to cool down or something you have to accept that not all their god mode superpowers come through the magic of the Force.

Havok wrote:Uh, then why do they move their legs at super speed when they run in TPM and not just levitate down the hallway?

Or perhaps the tiredness is psychosomatic?

Darth Hoth wrote:That they think they ought to be tired, therefore they are, in spite of nothaving expended much energy of their own? As Yoda explained the force in tESB, it is foremost a matter of belief ("You must unlearn all that you have learnt" in order to lose the old limits on what is possible and what is not, and so forth).

Stofsk wrote:Which example are you referring to? In ESB, Luke can't lift his X-wing and collapses on the ground panting heavily. Yoda closes his eyes, moves the ship and doesn't display any signs of exhaustion.

Stofsk wrote:In AOTC Yoda effortlessly rebukes Dooku's force lightning attacks twice, again, showing no signs of exhaustion, and similarly in ROTS.

Stofsk wrote:Physical conditioning is obviously very important for Jedi, otherwise Yoda wouldn't have gotten Luke to do all those athletic and acrobatic manoeuvres,

but I don't know how that translates into them needing to eat more than normal people.

New York Post wrote: Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has an Olympic recipe for success - and it involves eating a staggering 12,000 calories a day.

"Eat, sleep and swim. That's all I can do," Phelps, who won two more gold medals today, told NBC when asked what he needs to win medals. "Get some calories into my system and try to recover the best I can."

By comparison, the average man of the same age needs to ingest about 2,000 calories a day.

Phelps, 23, will swim 17 times over nine days of competition at the Beijing Games - meaning that he will need all the calories he can shovel in his mouth in order to keep his energy levels high.

Phelps' diet - which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal - resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian.

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.

He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

Phelps remains on course to at least equal Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals won at the 1972 Munich Games.

At these Summer Games, a typical day for Phelps starts with a 5 a.m. wake-up call. Most of his races have taken place between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET when in China - 12 hours ahead of East Coast time.