There. Solved.
Posted on 07/05/2011 8:31:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
On June 19, maritime treasure hunters -- who were looking for priceless submerged hooch in shipwrecks -- discovered a 60-meter-diameter circle 87 meters under the Baltic Sea. Are these the remains of an alien vessel or Cthulhu's personal pan pizza?
Next to the circle is a 300 meter long slide track -- as if the circle has traveled across the seabed before it has settled [...] They rule out theories that there is a depth bomb or mine from the First World War -- or a symmetrical [algal] bloom [...] The most likely scenario is still that there is a natural ground formation.
io9 tipster Dr Nilsson suggests that we're looking at the remains of the Millennium Falcon, which isn't entirely implausible as Chewie and Han have visited Earth (albeit in another dimension). As for a more serious guess, it's the lost Limecat of Atlantis. Also, why didn't my high school guidance counselor inform me that "Booze-Searching Scandinavian Treasure Hunter" was among the world's viable career options?
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There. Solved.
Another one...
Don’t you buze that poor widdle Space Basset!
God where’s the love for JarJar here? Where is the love? ;)
humm millennium pizza sounds tasty
“Chewie and Han have visited Earth (albeit in another dimension).”
Pffft! Everyone knows that Chewie is planting gardens, vacationing every week and living it up in the White House.
“It’s where they buried the birth certificate.”
What birth certificate? Obama is the One. He was never conceived by a mere earthly mortal.
Spock will get him off, by reminding the Counsel that under the battle conditions found in the movie, Star Fleet Regulation forty-six A applies: 'If transmissions are being monitored during battle... no uncoded messages on an open channel.'
So in Lucas's defense, "distance" was to "speed" as "speed" should be to "distance." Therefore - parsecs.
And don't give me any nonsense about different universes - Scotty eventually fixed the transwarp drive. So what do you think the "trans" stands for?
It’s kind of convoluted, but the eventual explanation does make sense, in that travelling at that speed (FTL), you have to be very careful about gravity wells. Most ships tend to give major mass shadows (gravity wells) a wide berth to avoid stress on the ship. The “less than 12 parsecs” just means that Han was able to find a more efficient course along a known hyperspace route by “cutting corners” here and there, thus travelling in a straighter and therefore shorter line. It is related to speed, in that because of the Falcon’s extreme speed, it was able to skirt closer to those gravity wells, since it would be exposed to the stress for a shorter time period. It’s a small bit of fairly “hard” science in an otherwise “Flash Gordon” space opera.
The whole measuring of speed in the Lucas universe, on the other hand, is really bollixed, where something that goes “0.5 past light speed” is faster than ships that go 0.6 or higher. I still haven’t heard a good explanation for that one.
Looks to me like someone just built their deck a little too close to the edge of the beach, and erosion from a big storm dumped the thing in the drink.
Wow, that's really good. I still like Spock's codes, but your science is neato.
Could be some sort of human artifact from when the sea levels were lower during last man made global cooling.
Looks to be stripped and up on blocks. Someone left the keys in the ignition and it was stolen by some Jawas.
Wow!
Check out the book “Hyperspace” by Michu Kaiku Hard science for the layman. Facinating read for sci-fi buffs. All his books are really.
Now you know who (one of the guys anyway) Hollywood goes to ;)
Transylvania? Just a JUMP to the left...
You certainly throw me back in time when we debated which would win: The Enterprise vs. BattleStar Galactica vs. a Star Wars Corellian Cruiser (or even the if the Death Star were to show up in the Star Trek Universe).
Late nights, many beers, horn-rimmed glasses, 3D chess, Malibu nights with hot Santa winds blowing through the canyons.
God, life had and has never been so good.
What a fool I was to not capture every moment.
MAD Magazine summarized it best: "Our lasers fire at the speed of light but our ships go faster than light... that means we just shot ourselves down!"
I know exactly what that is. It is called, in technical parlance, “jack shit.” Another name would be “eroded rock outcropping buried in ages worth of silt.”
A hundred years later, the wreckage is found by Professor Indiana Jones and his sidekick Shorty. As he examines the skeleton remains, Indiana states that there is something familiar about this.
Nope. Remember relativity ;)
Butters really was here many moons ago!
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