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- From: dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (David Kemper)
- Subject: Re: Another error?
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- In article <1992Dec31.203947.15228@nic.funet.fi>, tapio@nic.funet.fi (Tapio Keih{nen) writes...
- >One more... The possible tennis shoe ship in ROTJ. Who says that
- >those Star Wars guys are about as tall as we? I know that some of
- >their measurements have been given, for example Chewie is about n feet
- >tall. But those 'feet', 'metres', 'inches' etc which appear in Star
- >Wars, are probably local measurements and not Tellus measurements. So,
- >back to the main point: Some rebel guys, about 0.05 inch tall, came to
- >earth and found some lost Nike tennis shoe. They were short of ships
- >and noticed that they could use the Nike shoe easily. They just put
- >some engines in it and there they went happily again. One biiiiiig
- >ship more for them. With the ultimate assistance of this ship they'd
- >beat the hell out of Empire!
-
- Actually it's a little known fact that the entire Star Wars universe exists
- inside the electron of a carbon molecule within a rock near the south edge
- of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The proof is too long to present here, but
- if you have a PhD in physics and carefully freeze-frame through the Wampa
- attack on Luke, taking careful note of the impact of the Wampa's hand and
- the subsequent impact of Luke onto the snow, it becomes quite obvious.
- Because of this, a tennis shoe from earth would be far too huge for anyone
- in the Star Wars universe to even see, let alone use as a spacecraft. The
- real explanation is that we are not meant to take the shoe literally, only
- symbolically. It represents the Rebellion kicking the Empire's butt.
-
- I'm going home now.
-
- --Gallandro
-
- "Take it easy, kid. It's only a movie." --Ham Salad, "Hardware Wars"
-