The short version of the Irish name Uilliam.
I think that the Irish probably got it from the French saint Guillaume
I have no idea how many times I have seen Young Frankenstein. Yesterday I noticed that, just before the scene where the monster is elevated into the storm Gene Wilder has a sewing thimble on his left ring finger. I guess he had just finished the last stitches before trying to shock his creation into life.
The Mellennium Falcon - “The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.” “You’re braver than I thought.”
I remember seeing it and noticing the odd, lumpy shapes and open places and thinking “how interesting”. It took the Han Solo movie and Lando showing up in the pristine 'Falcon with all the closeout panels installed to realize what it was supposed to look like. Suddenly all those “hunk of junk” contents make more sense.
I watched Full Metal Jacket last night. According to his PT sweats, Joker’s real name is JT Davis. First time I ever noticed that.
That’s his name in the book. James T. Davis.
Batman: “At last!”
Wait a minute, You’re name is Jack Batty.
Looks at you suspiciously
Wait a tic. James T Davis. Jim Davis. Did Joker exit the war and start drawing Garfield?
I generally assume that there’s supposed to be something like a standard shipping container that’s supposed to fit in between those two front protrusions, making the Falcon as we know it the equivalent of a semi tractor without a trailer.
Wasn’t it an emergency escape pod or something like that?
Yeah, take a semi tractor with a hugely powerful engine, then modify the transmission for gearing up the output for high speed rather than down for high torque, reinforce the drive shaft, suspension, etc.
Naw, the proportions are all wrong. That would be like a semi pulling a 5 ft long yard trailer.
The Solo movie had Lando with a custom yacht fitted into the notch. The original SW movie had a line about the Falcon having previously ejecting escape pods, which somehow got projected by fandom to come from the slot. I vaguely recall a schematic somewhere in an art book. As an adult I can see how that wouldn’t be a great idea.
Well, the protrusions aren’t necessarily the full length of the container, just long enough to get a good grip on it. We don’t know how large a Star Wars standard container is.
Also, we don’t know how much vehicle space a hyperdrive needs to take up. Maybe, for a full container, you need something the size of the Falcon.
FWIW, here is how some people imagine a YT-1300 light freighter/tug working with cargo pods:
Interesting. Seems poor design to push a cargo container. Even without friction/ drag, inertia is going to play hell trying to steer that thing.
But hey, these are magical space vehicles that can survive multiple high speed impacts with a planet’s surface so what do I know?
I just imagine them as light freighters that do planetary landings to load and unload the interior. Good for small expensive goods and fast transport runs, not bulk cargo transport.
Plus it interferes with visibility. The entire port side is blocked from view.
I’m not sure I agree that it is a poor cargo design. Current rocket technology is cargo front, propulsion rear. Current container ship technology is cargo front, propulsion rear.
Can’t put cargo in the back, engine is there.
Put cargo on the sides, you now have to rely on the shear strength of your connection points.
Put cargo in front, you are directly pushing the cargo containers with the frame of the ship. I like this for relatively short cargo trains.
Any place you put the cargo will interfere with visibility somewhere.
This arrangement also explains why the Falcon has that off-center cockpit to begin with. Why isn’t the cockpit right in the middle of the front? Because that’s where the cargo would go.
I think it’s an overall design flaw with the YT-1300. It would make more sense to have the cockpit in the center, and have the cargo attach to the bottom. The ship can hover after all.
The Star Wars Universe has gravity manipulation technology, so inertia is probably much less of an issue for them. They’re not just pushing on it like we would with a tugboat, they’re deploying a field effect around the whole combination.
Probably. That’s the way I’d do it.
Tugboats do more than tug, I guess.