Posted on 10/10/2019 1:51:35 PM PDT by bananaman22
For the love of heaven, don’t tell AOC! “We’ll, like, build the Death Star and we’ll just, like, pay for it! Right?”
-PJ
It sure seems like the Genesis device from Star Trek would be a whole lot cheaper. It can’t destroy a planet, but it does wipe out everything on a planet’s surface, and it is only as big as a photon torpedo.
When I saw Spock buried in a photon torpedo, I laughed my ass off. I mean, wouldn’t a photon torpedo be an energy weapon with no physical structure? I always laughed at how wrong the movie got that tidbit.
I mean, how many ways can you prove they got this wrong.
A physical torpedo would not emit the blindingly bright light that we always see from afar when the Enterprise fires off a photon torpedo. People might say “that is the propulsion signature”. Well, the same light emits when the torpedo is directly oncoming, so that is false.
How about the speed of the torpedo itself. Without going to Warp speed (can’t see how a little lozenge would have a warp drive), it would take a really long tome for that little capsule to cross the vast distances from Enterprise to target. Instead, photon torpedoes hit their target in a few seconds no matter how far the target.
Before Wrath of Kahn, photon torpedos were just energy weapons like the phasers were. Firing Spock off in a photon torpedo casing was just dumb dumb dumb.
Admiral Motti : Any attack made by the Rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they’ve obtained. This station is now the ultimate power in the universe.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : That is fantastic. Terrific work. So no weaknesses at all?
Admiral Motti : N... no.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : You, uh, you hesitated there. Is there something I should know?
Admiral Motti : No, it’s virtually indestructible, like 99.99%.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : Uh, okay, wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t ask what’s the 0.01?
Admiral Motti : Well, I mean, there’s this little hole. It was kind of an aesthetic choice by the architect. And if you shoot a laser into this hole, the station blows up.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! That sounds like a pretty big design flaw, then.
Admiral Motti : No, no, the hole’s only two meters across.
Mayor Adam West (Grand Moff Tarkin) : Well, that’s no bigger than a womp rat.
Admiral Motti : Exactly. And even to get within range of it, you have to skim along this whole trench. It’s not a big deal.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : Can’t we board it up or, you know, put some plywood over it or something?
Admiral Motti : Well, that would look terrible. I mean, we gotta think about resale.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : Resale? What are you talking about? This property is right above Sunset. The value is only going to go up.
Admiral Motti : Lord Vader, your inside references to the Los Angeles real estate market haven’t given you the clairvoyance to turn a profit on that condo in Glendale. Nor has it...
Stewie (Darth Vader) : [Vader begins to choke him] I find your lack of faith disturbing. That property is in a prime location! Twenty minutes to the beach, twenty minutes to downtown!
Admiral Motti : [choking] There’s nothing to do downtown!
Mayor Adam West (Grand Moff Tarkin) : Enough of this! Vader, release him!
Stewie (Darth Vader) : As you wish.
[releases Tagge]
Stewie (Darth Vader) : All right, so were’ going to plug up that hole?
Imperial Officer : Yeah, we can get it done tomorrow if price is no object.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : Ehhhh...
Imperial Officer : We’ll get estimates.
Stewie (Darth Vader) : Get estimates, yeah, yeah.
Even more expensive than the Green New Deal. But it’s close.
I’m not so sure there would even be enough carbon to accomplish that task, but I suppose it doesn’t have to be fully enclosed.
But still, at the “sweet spot” orbit of a star, the enormous amount of matter has to be staggering.
How silly, we have zero maned space capability as I type this. lmao
Well we can sure tell Obama Hey you dint build that
Culture Abominator class Rapid Offensive Units have no problem F-ing entire solar systems from a safe distance of several light years ... Death Star pufffile!
Star Trek was big on techno-babble and ignoring common sense.
Kirk is still the best captain.
I have mixed feelings about Family Guy but the Star Wars parody was really good.
Why bother with the Death Star? Just divert a big asteriod.
The whole cloaking device non-use by the Federation was cosmic level stupid.
Yep, it was. I think the Federation had the technology, they just didn’t use it. Right? Something about only the bad guys being sneaky, while the good guys had to be fair and play by the rules & such, so the Federation had decided not to pursue a cloaking device since it was considered a sneaky tactic instead of a “manly” art of war.
Am I misremembering that or something?
Pretty much right.
Kind of like other countries use submarines but us virtuous types won’t.
OK, yeah. Gene Roddenberry once said, “Our people are scientists and explorers – they don’t go sneaking around.” So he created some stupid thing whereby the Federation signed a Treaty prohibiting the use of cloaking devices. But at the end of the day, it was just a “good guys don’t cheat” kind of thing and “bad guys cheat like hell” kind of thing. Just like Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger, the bad guys can use underhanded tactics but the good guys always have to win a gentlemen’s fight fair and square, and of course they always did.
Evil wins because good is dumb.
A tommy gun dispatched a few Borg but of course the British sounding Frenchy Frenchman was repulsed.
They’re building a clone army of Obamas with New Zealand accents right now.
top one looks like high tech interstellar boobies
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