Ever wonder if Chewy scrapes his butt across the deck?
Via some means of modulating radio waves. Which, again, says absolutely nothing about how their computers work.
Maybe the aliens code in FRACTRAN.
Nitpick: it is entirely plausible for both reasons to apply at once. Some Russian complained to Roddenberry. Simultaneously, Roddenberry wanted to add a Davy Jones lookalike. Ergo, he creates a character that is a Russian Davy Jones lookalike.
Hell, maybe he sold it to the studio by using the Davy Jones angle but did it because he wanted to insert a Russian in that “we’ve risen above the Cold War” kinda thing. Or maybe he was driven by the profit of the Davy Jones guy and just made up the whole Russian thing. Who really knows? But it is reasonable to think he simply had two motives for adding the character.
Why do you think I put that in that post?
Heh. Now I’m imagine another deleted scene …
Luke: [entering cockpit] Hey, Han. I have to say, I’m surprised that the head on a dumpy freighter like this has a bidet.
Han: Do you have any idea what this place would smell like if Chewie was stuck with just toilet paper?
Chewbacca: Grunt-roar-growl. [Fuck you, Han.]
- Hyperspace is specifically named.
- There is no unit of time called “parsec.” Han was intentionally saying ridiculous stuff to Ben and Luke to see if the two hicks knew anything about space and would catch it, or they were just a couple of idiots wasting his time.
Yeah, from context it seems that was meant to be a joke. Hasn’t stopped it from being quoted on vegan sites.
Thank you very much for planting that image in my brain.
Actually, if you want to post your review of the movie, it was my first thought when I read the OP’s title ;).
Well of course there are vegetarian vampires.
In fact watch Alec Guiness’s acting, right after Han says that Obiwan rolls his eyes and looks annoyed. Great actor BTW, he says in a few expressions that Obi has been all over the damn galaxy.
Hell it is often said that the droids and Obiwan not recognizing each other in ANH is a plot hole, before meeting Obiwan both droids including 3PO make comments about Tattoine feeling familiar, and once again great acting by Alec as Obiwan slyly tells Luke he doesn’t remember owning a droid(which wasn’t what Luke asked). The scene is clearly played that Obiwan knows more than he is revealing.
What does that mean?
If it makes you happy, then sure, you keep on believing that.
Tangent - I’d read Bunnicula over Twilight, anyday. Now there’s a vegetarian vampire I can get behind.
Correct. That’s how several have fanwanked it.
It makes perfect sense to me.
the Alien has steel teeth and acid for blood ffs, I imagine it was eating just about anything on board it felt like eating.
the giagantor face hugger in Prometheus on the other hand…
I believe there was some EU fiction that had Chekov leading the security detail that escorted Khan & Co. down to Ceti Alpha V.
It could also be that during the Clone Wars, droids were pretty much government issued military equipment. I certainly couldn’t look at an M-16 and identify it as the same one I carried around 20 years ago, especially if it had it’s memory wiped. 
Here’s another one from A New Hope: “How could the stormtroopers on the Death Star possibly be such bad shots?”
A: They’re missing on purpose. Remember the scene with Tarkin asking Vader if the tracking device was installed on the Falcon. They’re obviously planning to let them go and track them to the rebel base, so it would make sense to order the stormtroopers to “Let them get away, but don’t make it look like you’re letting them get away”. They’re not trying to kill them, they’re herding them back to the ship. Of all the plot holes in ep4, I’m amazed that people focus on this one.
But consider a genuine historical example: the Allied Ultra program. Yes, the Allies were just monitoring German radio transmissions. But in order to understand the content of those transmissions, even if those transmissions were simple messages, the Allies had to essentially reverse-engineer the Enigma machine.
Now maybe the aliens were broadcasting a simple system of ten beeps then nine beeps then eight beeps and so on. But it’s more likely they were communicating by the equivalent of a wireless internet system.
So it’s plausible to surmise that the ability to tap into and understand messages being transmitted by an alien communications system implies an understanding of how that system works. Plausible enough for movie purposes anyway.
I think if it fell into a star they would larger issues. :eek:
They are meant to be going FTL.
There’s an enormous amount of fanwankery about this, but the best explanation I have heard is that it started as a joke in the script. Why must everything a character says be considered reliable encyclopedic information?
It’s been a while since I saw the film (could only bear to watch it once), but didn’t JG’s character derive the countdown from the *decreasing strength *of the alien broadcast, not it’s contents.
And yes I know that makes even less sense.