Nerding out, Big time

[bobo_phaedrus]

Do any of you, o lucky readers, recall the scene in "Clerks" where Dante and Randall have a deep conversation regarding the moral ambiguity inherent in the Star Wars movie, "Return of the Jedi?" In the movie, Rebels daringly destroy the moon-size Death Star above the planet Endor, possibly incinerating thousands of unwitting (or were they?)

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Ewoks in General... suck.

[martin_bishop]

The real question is this, my friend Bobo--if one town-sized chunk of Death Star hit the unwitting Endor at speeds of a meteor or large asteroid (being propelled by the explosion), how did anything survive at all? This is assuming, of course, that it was only one chunk. The Earth, were it hit by a meteor more than 2 km (roughly the previous size of Al Roker, before he got his stomach stapled), would be thrown into Rapture, with most life, if not all, ending in hours or days. The much smaller moon of Endor, hit by one or more of these large Death pieces, would be torn asunder, thus creating a quick, armageddon-fueled Ewok Barbecue when the molten center of the damn thing was exposed.

Now, the pieces that actually survived the explosion (probably the lower, unfinished parts) were probably jarred loose by the initial rumblings from Lando's ill-fated (at least for the reject Sesame Street characters) run on the inner core. These pieces would have to have been superheated from the H-bomb sized blast, and after that had to contend

Wow...

[anonymous]

Dude, I don't think even Meskill was ever this bad...

-P

This is why I love you guys

[checo_squidd]

Incredible. You both make valid points. Now it's time for the highly improbable solution of the Star Wars galaxy

Re: This is why I love you guys

[vince_holz]

Maybe they didn't survive.. Mayhap just a mear seconds after the credits roll, flaming doom met the Rebel Resistance? This, of course, is plausable according to Cannon. But if such a thing happened.. that would instantly null all of the EU (Extended Universe for those not in the know.)

The more important question is this...

Why didn't I get this many comments on my Post about the steps on Federation Starships?

It's not that we don't care...

[bobo_phaedrus]

...It's just that the idea of screeching Ewoks fleeing a flaming, city-block-sized chunk of Death Star is more amusing and thought-provoking than a poor, crippled Starfleet redshirt (goldshirt in TNG) desparately plummeting his hover-wheelchair into the shaft of an inoperative turbolift as his ship is cut to ribbons by Romulan disruptor fire. Although, now that I think of it, that is a damn funny image...

...and I mean absolutely NO ill-will toward the handicapped. Only Ewoks should suffer such a cruel and twisted fate, unless they are Ewoks on crutches, in which case they may die, but only in a hilariously ironic way.