Poll: Impossible nerd questions

[Xette]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this... But in the original outtake Han DID shoot first. However it was edited to make Greedo shoot first. They thought it would've put a bad light on Han's character to make him shoot first. Supposedly it didn't fit the PG criteria.

It is a fact Han shot first in the original outtake.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

If it took you fifty years to invent a time machine which traveled with you, and you went back forty-nine years to speed up the invention process, would you still have to take forty-nine more years to invent the machine so your future self could use it, go back that forty-nine years to show it to yourself, or would it already be there ready for use anytime?

I thought about this one some time ago before I thought it would either be an endless loop or a time paradox and gave up.

Make a big one and a little one, take the little one back 49 years with you through the big one, leave the big one 49 years in the future and use the little one! DUH.

 

[Reverend_Randy]

A parsec is a unit of distance=3.26 light years.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Stellarparallax_parsec1.svg
This is the diagram of how it is derived.
Like a light year, it is NEVER, and has never been, a unit of time.

EDIT:

I don't know if anyone mentioned this... But in the original outtake Han DID shoot first. However it was edited to make Greedo shoot first. They thought it would've put a bad light on Han's character to make him shoot first. Supposedly it didn't fit the PG criteria.

It is a fact Han shot first in the original outtake.

Yes, that was mentioned in the thread a number of times.

Seriously you guys- read the thread before you just respond all willy nilly.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

What is Giygas's gender?

 

[Captain Blackout]

If a lightsaber amounts to projecting monochromatic light into a focused beam, then why don't the blades extend to infinity?

The beam isn't photonic light. It's some kind of plasma or other energy that arcs back on itself. The lightsaber jewels focus the energy and set the harmonics for it, which is part of what determines length.

No, I'm not really a nerd, why do you ask?
.>
I just read that somewhere, don't remember where.

 

[Captain Blackout]

Video of Han shooting first (from the Original version, as near as I can figure out in the 5 mintues I've spent looking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YbFnkZwZk

Video of Greedo shooting first (From the remastered version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qUjsCODGnE


Hope this helps.

So let's see...Han shot first, by about 20 years, Greedo tried to get a return shot in 20 years later, and Han buried him for good. Ok, that helps a lot, thanx...

 

[ThePostalGamer]

Make a big one and a little one, take the little one back 49 years with you through the big one, leave the big one 49 years in the future and use the little one! DUH.

Minor problem: You only have one time machine. DUH?

 

[stiborge]

If a lightsaber amounts to projecting monochromatic light into a focused beam, then why don't the blades extend to infinity?

The force?

 

[Fragged_Templar]

Han, damnit

why is this still being discussed!?!

 

[KitsunetheFox]

Han used his superpowers to see into the future, where Greedo would try to shoot him. So Han then shot Greedo before he could do anything.

Also: If Gandalf had connections with the big eagles, then why didn't he do the big eagle thing in the first place and drop the ring in the volcano from the sky?

 

[Athlumney]

Han...Duh

Now here's one. Does Boba ever crawl his way out of the Sarlacc pit? In Canon?

Do you consider the Extended Universe canon? Because if so, yes he did. Because he is one bad-ass ************.

Han...Duh

Now here's one. Does Boba ever crawl his way out of the Sarlacc pit? In Canon?

No. Boba Fett dies. Period.

Han...Duh

Now here's one. Does Boba ever crawl his way out of the Sarlacc pit? In Canon?

No. Boba Fett dies. Period.

No. Boba Fett sets off a thermal grenade, is blown free, rescued by one of Jabaa's slave girls and another bounty hunter named Dengar.

I thought something like this was going to happen. Yeah I think he get's away, but you just never know XD

Boba spent a couple of weeks in one of the sarlacs bellys where it telephathically talks with him and all its previous meals he eventually managed to ge it to squeeze his jetpack in a way that it activated and he escaped. By the time of the battle of Endor Boba had somehow fallen back into the sarlac which then regurgitated him, however he was then trapped again when a sandcrawler he was on fell into the Sarlac he later escaped once again.

 

[Solstrana91]

Han.

What came first: the chicken or the egg?

Trick question, the rooster had to come first...(I feel bad if you miss the joke)

*pauses for a few minuetes*
....hehe, dirty jokes make me giggle.

 

[Allan53]

A parsec is a unit of distance not time, how did the Millennium Falcon make the Kessel run in less than 12?

From what I understand, the area is full of black holes. The faster your ship, the less you need to duck and weave, leading to a shorter total distance travelled. Source: One of the expanded universe books, but don't ask which one.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

If Superman is invincible, how can Kryptonite hurt him?

But Superman is not invincible.

 

[TimeLord]

In the "Empire Strikes Back" why, when evacuating Hoth, did the rebels head straight for the Imperial ships rather than in a different direction entirely?

 

[HeySeansOnline]

The kessel run is populated with black holes, showing a lower distance means you move closer to them, and not get sucked in, remember, in space it's 3 dimensional movement, so getting right up to those wholes, the run becomes feasable in 12 parsecs, doesn't seem like a piece of junk now does it?

 

[Queen Michael]

Han shot first. Who's the best Green Lantern, Hal Jordan or Kyle Rayner?
Kyle, of course, no question there.

 

[wax88]

actually to ans the question-depends on the version of star wars that you're looking at.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIxKVQbdEes

 

[Negdaen]

A parsec is a unit of distance not time, how did the Millennium Falcon make the Kessel run in less than 12?

He CHEATED! Which when applying for a job that would put you up against countless enemies with planet destroying startship, (Because a station that can move from planet to planet isn't stationary is it?) you don't want to be the type to follow the rules. That's why Yoda and Obi-won lost and Han and Luke did not.

As far as lightsabers go, they're not not a beam of light, well not if they really existed. We can actually build lightsabers NOW! They would actually be a plasma generator paired up with a system of elctromagnets to create a field that would shape the plasma into a saber. They would look and work just like the lightsabers in the Star Wars universe. Except Virbablades or whatever wouldn't be able to stop them so they would be better. Problem is you would need a entire powerplant to power just one with out current level of technology. But look on the brightside, it was once said that you need the energy equivalent of the mass of the solar system to make warp travel possible. Now it is said that you only need the mass equivalent of Jupiter. Much bettter. And scientist are working on controlling plasma AS WE SPEAK! So either your kids or grandkids will be mugged at Lightsaber point. Congratulations!

 

[opportunemoment]

Also: If Gandalf had connections with the big eagles, then why didn't he do the big eagle thing in the first place and drop the ring in the volcano from the sky?

As far as I've ever been able to tell, it's because the eagles were snobby bastards who liked Gandalf but weren't all that bothered about anyone else in Middle Earth - either that or they had a heightened sense of narrative fate and believed it had to be done the hard way because It Just Did.

I'd like to hear another explanation though.