# Star Wars Fiction Now Fact

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fiction-now-fact/634121>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 8, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fiction-now-fact/634121 "2012-09-08T20:25:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fiction-now-fact/634121/1 "2012-09-08T20:25:02Z")

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It’s literally mind over matter. Is civilization as we know it [**doomed?**](http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/09/modified-star-wars-toy-lets-you-explode-watermelons-with-your-mind.html) And an alien popped out (easily seen full-screen) from the [del]watermelon[/del] planet destroyer’s chest!

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fiction-now-fact/634121/2 "2012-09-08T20:43:49Z")

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Sure, we now have the ability to destroy civilization with our psychic power. Blah blah blah.

Let’s focus on something important instead: CBC journalist [Lauren O’Neil](http://img.filemobile.com/i/6467919/w/300).

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fiction-now-fact/634121/3 "2012-09-08T21:35:55Z")

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Bah!  
If those kids aren’t producing [Omega](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Mendelsohn,_the_Boy_from_Mars) waves, they’re not doing squat!

ETA: I’m in state 26 right now!

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fiction-now-fact/634121/4 "2012-09-08T22:41:38Z")

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That would be perfect for the first day of class when I become a professor. “I find your lack of preparation…disturbing.” BOOM!!

EVERYONE would read the syllabus that night.