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Monday, April 25, 2011

Han Solo took a shortcut? (Star Wars References.)

This comic strip, from XKCD:



Might have equally had what I assume to be Luke Skywalker saying, in the fourth panel, "I thought a parsec was a unit of measurement equal to 3.26 light years. So what you're saying is that you found a way to reduce the actual distance traveled for the Kessel Run, which of course would shorten the time as well, most likely, but that doesn't actually prove that the Millennium Falcon is a fast ship, but merely that you're better at celestial navigation than other pilots... which just goes to reason, since any starship that can get around this galaxy can go light speed, and light speed is pretty much the fastest that anything can go. So I guess it's important to us that you can find shortcuts like you did on the Kessel Run, even though the idea of a "shortcut" between planets is sort of a ridiculous notion, anyway."

Or, the author could have opted to reference a different movie altogether. But it's, like, why would that happen... in a world?

Friday, February 18, 2011

Did you know: "Star Wars" is the only movie in which a computer has ever been shut off? (Star Wars References)

Everything revolves around Star Wars. And now "everything" includes even XKCD, which once cleverly turned Star Wars references into a joke that I think is ironic, now.

Here's the original, and now possibly ironic cartoon, titled "Excessive Quotation:"



And here's today's strip from XKCD, also:


So, when wanting to make a clever point about how easy access to the Internet distracts us from our job, XKCD went to what has become the source of all inspiration of humanity, Star Wars.

I'm not complaining, mind you -- at least I get this joke, and I can only say that about maybe 35% of XKCD's strips; most fly over my head. Except the velociraptor ones, which I get but get annoyed by because someone as smart as Randall Munroe should know they never existed.


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