Winston Blake wrote:As a newbie, i'm finding it somehow gratifying to finally debate Darkstar. I'd heard a lot about him, and now it's almost a Rite of Passage for me to debate him.
It's a bit like having a fistfight with Satan, really. There's a few weirdos out there who worship him, he is constantly used as an example of ultimate evil (stupidity), and his story shocks and frightens noobs (children).
DarkStar. You must confront DarkStar. Only then, a flamewarrior will you be. [/Yoda]
"Sometimes I think you WANT us to fail." "Shut up, just shut up!" -Two Guys from Kabul
Latinum Star Recipient; Hacker's Cross Award Winner
"one soler flar can vapririze the planit or malt the nickl in lass than millasacit" -Bagara1000
The planet WAS completely destroyed; again, the means is irrelevant, if it can be done reliably. You're just splitting hairs-- particularly considering that the DS most likely blows up planets by simply stimulating the natural process by which planets explode when their internal fusion-processes reach critical-mass, so it's the same thing, i.e. causing the nuclei to simultaneously fuse.
Unsurprising. Tulkas quickly earned a reputation for himself on the Yahoo! Groups ( )webpage for being a doofus. You're lucky Bargara hasn't showed up, yet.
"Sometimes I think you WANT us to fail." "Shut up, just shut up!" -Two Guys from Kabul
Latinum Star Recipient; Hacker's Cross Award Winner
"one soler flar can vapririze the planit or malt the nickl in lass than millasacit" -Bagara1000
Tulkas wrote:Planets blow THEMSELVES up on occasion via spontaneous fusion
and
Try getting your facts straight before you accuse others of not having theirs. It's common knowledge in contemporary astrophysics, that planets can spontaneously explode (ala Ceti Alpha VI in STII)
Notice all the fringe discussion when it gets to "mechanism"- not widely recognized, and a main page that asserts there's "something wrong" with astronomy.
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Damn you Vymp! I was planning to post that, damn near made me fall out of my chair laughing.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
Darth Wong wrote:Ah, Darkstar followers. Proving yet again that only ignoramuses will ever find his arguments compelling.
Darkstar....Seduced by the trek side was he. Mainly because of stupidity but there is one grat thing that one must consider..who was mighter DS or Timmy? and will the Master return? always two there are..a Master and an apprentice.
Via money Europe could become political in five years" "... the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would ... the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal"
BTW, can someone with the ROTJ novelisation quickly check if Leia's arm getting hurt near the bunker is described, and post the relevant quote?
Robert Gilruth to Max Faget on the Apollo program: “Max, we’re going to go back there one day, and when we do, they’re going to find out how tough it is.”
Winston Blake wrote:BTW, can someone with the ROTJ novelisation quickly check if Leia's arm getting hurt near the bunker is described, and post the relevant quote?
Sure
RotJ wrote:....Great, now we have two doors to get through' Leia muttered.
At that moment she was hit in the arm by a laser bolt, and knocked to the ground.
Han rushed over to her. 'Leia, no!' he cried, trying to stop the bleeding.....
Via money Europe could become political in five years" "... the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would ... the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal"
At that moment, she was hit in the arm by a laser bolt, and knocked to the ground.
Page 488 of the Star Wars Omnibus.
"The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken.
"This was evil manifest."
- Terry "Not a fantasy author, honest" Goodkind, bringing unintentional comedy to a bookshop near you since 1994.
"The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken.
"This was evil manifest."
- Terry "Not a fantasy author, honest" Goodkind, bringing unintentional comedy to a bookshop near you since 1994.
GeneralTacticus wrote:Oops, didn't see Stuart's post.
And I forgot the page number I need to go to bed, forgetting basics...
Via money Europe could become political in five years" "... the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would ... the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal"
The planet WAS completely destroyed; again, the means is irrelevant, if it can be done reliably. You're just splitting hairs-- particularly considering that the DS most likely blows up planets by simply stimulating the natural process by which planets explode when their internal fusion-processes reach critical-mass, so it's the same thing, i.e. causing the nuclei to simultaneously fuse.
Unsurprising. Tulkas quickly earned a reputation for himself on the Yahoo! Groups ( )webpage for being a doofus. You're lucky Bargara hasn't showed up, yet.
Oh my god, I hope that Bargara doesnt find his way there because at that point I think that the stupidity of the morons at that forum will reach a critical mass, resulting in an explosion that will make the entire damn server blow up (though, that would wipe some of them out...)
"The ones they built at the height of nuclear weapons could knock the earth out of its orbit" - Physics expert Envy in reference to the hydrogen bombs built during the cold war.
Darth Wong wrote:Wait, there's somebody out there who's dumber than a guy who thinks that there's nuclear fusion naturally occurring inside Earth's iron core?
Read the quote in my signature.
"Sometimes I think you WANT us to fail." "Shut up, just shut up!" -Two Guys from Kabul
Latinum Star Recipient; Hacker's Cross Award Winner
"one soler flar can vapririze the planit or malt the nickl in lass than millasacit" -Bagara1000
Tulkas wrote:Planets blow THEMSELVES up on occasion via spontaneous fusion
and
Try getting your facts straight before you accuse others of not having theirs. It's common knowledge in contemporary astrophysics, that planets can spontaneously explode (ala Ceti Alpha VI in STII)
I think he watches too much ST2...and believes it's fact.
The quote doesn't give enough info, whether the bolt directly hit her arm, scraped it, exploded alongside it, etc. It just says that the bolt 'hit'
her arm, which could account for scraping as well.
Looks like I win , I'm the first to have a complete thread.
Not that it was hard to say that no material doors, banana phasers and exploding consoles are stupid anyway. I'll leave the quantatitive analysis to the more accomplished, and stick to the qualitative for now.
)webpage for being a doofus. You're lucky Bargara hasn't showed up, yet.
I need to go to bed, forgetting basics...
, I'm the first to have a complete thread.