And just how many tankers of elephant jizz have you seen? I suspect (hope!) that the answer is “zero”, which gives us a 1:0 ratio–making it infinitely more likely that mercury-boy would run into the N[sub]2l[/sub]. 
More seriously, I’ve seen a lot of N[sub]2l[/sub] tankers. They’re not nearly as uncommon as you think–maybe you just haven’t noticed them, or live in an area where the chemical isn’t used much?
Great, Outrider – I just horked my lunch…
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I saw one last week in Dallas, TX.
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Who in Dallas needs that much elephant semen?
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Thanks you dick, now my coworkers know I’m not working from my barely muffled guffafs!
Another thing:
I know I read this in another thread so if I screw it up, forgive me:
When Han Solo bragged about doing the Kestle (sp?) Run in in however many parsecs, it was a big deal because it involved doing some risky flying/navigating past/through unstable systems or something.
It was a claim of bravado and skill, since the normal, safe route was much longer.
Or I’m completely wrong.
Han’s actual line was: “It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.” It’s like someone bragging that he drove from Los Angeles to San Diego in less than 100 miles. It makes no sense.
The line indicates two things: George Lucas writes terrible dialogue and that he didn’t know at the time that a parsec is a unit of distance, not time. His explanation, when someone pointed this out to him, was that Solo didn’t always know what he was talking about. Unfortunately, this makes Obi-Wan and Luke either look like fools for trusting him or that they, too, did not know what a parsec was.
Don’t try confusing us with real-world facts jab! The retcon thinksnow described is acceptable, as it provides a plausible explanation for something that would otherwise be an awful gaffe. I don’t care if Lucas was clueless, as long as Han wasn’t.
This is Australia, after all. The only tankers we see other than for fuel (and, occasionally, elephant semen) are carrying bulk quantities of wine.
If they wanted to make it more realistic, T1000 shoulda hit a wine tanker and died of a combinatiion of alcohol poisoning and choking on his own vomit. Just think of what the special effects people could have come up with … T1000 spewing exorcist-sized quantities of liquid metal with carrots in it!
…make very little sense! I cite:
-the various reincarnations of “ALIEN”: why keep going back to that horrible planet? Everybody knows that you are going to wind up as food!
-“POLTERGEIST”-this family is so dumb, they keep buying houses built over cemetaries!
-“ROCKY”-this dope hasn’t enough sense to stay out of the ring!
-“JURASSIC PARK”(see ALIEN, above)
A possible explanation (for no other reason than to defend a childhood favorite): Perhaps he was referring to a more efficient route than the one taken by Imperial/other ships, though how this is attributable to the ship itself is beyond me. (Perhaps doing so required more maneuverability?)
Well, whatever. The new trilogy is gonna blow, anyway.
This is explained in the books (someone get SPOOFE in here). I don’t recall the exact details, but it does involve taking some serious flying risks instead of traveling the longer, safer route.
Ah, the Land of Oz. Don’t you also see some of those diesel tankers barrelling desperately down the road, pursued by post-nuclear pirate biker gangs wearing scary masks and wielding crossbows and catapults?
The driver is shitting his pants not because he’s afraid of losing his load, but because he hates to think what the gang will do to him when they find out it’s actually elephant semen . . .
If the writer is clueless, then his characters must also be clueless.
apperently, near the planet kessel, there is a giant amalgamation of supermassive black holes orbiting each other, creating a huge gravity well.
because the Millenium Falcon was equipped with an obcenely powerful hyperdrive, it could make a much shallower arc around the holes than the normal shipping lanes.
(the major trade center was on the opposite side of the black holes from kessel, so they had to pass them somehow.)
I prefer the ‘He didn’t know what he was talking about’ story. If you watch closely when he says that Obi-Wan gets a look on his face like he realizes what an idiot Han is but doesn’t want to say anything - probably not wanting to spook the kid, and he IS their ride…
I think the explanation that Lucas didn’t know what the hell a parsec is more likely. I don’t see any other examples of Solo fumbling astronomical terms anywhere else in the Star Wars movies.
It isn’t really a problem. Just an amusing goof that Lucas simply doesn’t want to own up to.
minor hijack…
the first star wars film reminded me so much of an old western. Especially that scene. There’s the kid fresh from the farm, the wise, somewhat mystical, old man, and the swaggering know it all guy that screws up now and then. “I’ve been from one side of this galaxy to the other…”
Or possibly Sir Alec Guinness was realizing what an idiot George Lucas is. When Sir Alec passed away last year, I read an excerpt of an interview where he expressed some dismay over how hysterically popular Star Wars had become. He said that once he ran into a little boy and his mother, and the kid of course was absolutely star-struck to meet Obi-Wan Kenobi face to face. Supposedly there was an exchange something along the lines of the following:
Little Boy: Oh Wow, Mr. Guinness, you are the greatest! I’ve seen Star Wars twenty times! I would do anything for you!
Alec Guinness: Do you really mean that?
LB: Absolutely!
AG: Then I want you to promise me that you will never, never watch Star Wars again.
The little kid starts crying, and the mother drags him away while shouting that that was the cruellest thing she had ever heard.
I guess this is more of a movie mistake than a scene I didn’t like (though it did ruin a major part of the movie), but in The Cell, did anyone else notice the toilet in the water-filling chamber? I think you can figure out why that can be a huge problem with the room presenting any danger to the person inside it…
Maybe. If you don’t understand how a toilet works.
Too many previous post to quote them all, but the theme song to Mad Max IV Meets Terminator III should be “We Don’t Need Another Bucket of Elephant Sperm”.
But after leaving the bar, Ben says, “If his ship is as good as he’s boasting, we ought to do well.” (which is another bit of evidence that Lucas has a tin ear when it comes to dialogue). Ben rolled his eyes because Solo was bragging so much.
If Solo was an idiot, why didn’t they hire someone smarter? Was he the only one desperate enough to take on such a risky job? Were Luke and Ben forced to settle for someone less than ideal?
There is a theory that allows the scene to work: Chewie is really the brains of the outfit! Han owns the ship, but he’s just smart enough to realize he needs someone smarter than he to make his enterprise work.