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Bad Design in Star Wars
- movix 17y agoIs this serious? It's a movie - you know 'make believe' As technology, yes of course there are loads of flaws, Dr. Who's Darleks must surely be the classic though. As far as movie design and art direction goes, John Barry the Production Designer spawned an entire new genre of sci-fi style.
- roundsquare 17y agoAnd you've never had fun poking holes in movies?
- kmcgivney 17y agoHow about those AT-ATs the empire used on Hoth? All you need is some rope and they fall over?
- modoc 17y agoEh, no worse than the Russian Mi-24 which had a heavily armored cockpit, but the tail could be easily damaged by small arms. People will find a way, intentionally or not, around your defensive design. True for code and military engineering alike.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoAt least they learned from the heavily armored helicopter whose gigantic windshield was made of non-bulletproof glass.
- modoc 17y agoI was trying to find a reference for that! Any pointers?
- sundeep 17y agoI believe he was referring to Rambo III. :)
- modoc 17y agoThere was a reference to the Russian helicopters windshields not being bulletproof in Afghanistan in a sci-fi or geek-y book I read a few years ago. I haven't seen Rambo III, so I know it's not that:) Possibly a Neal Stephenson book? Not sure. Also couldn't find any facts about it online.
- barrkel 17y agoAnd what are aerial intercept fighters doing with harpoons?
- modoc 17y agoLooking for air whales.
- access_denied 17y agoThe big white X-Wing.
- roryokane 17y agoI think they called them tow cables. Presumably, if one fighter was shot down, another could tow it back to base behind it.
- pcarmichael 17y agoIf you like this, you'll appreciate "The Inbox of Nardo Pace, The Empire's Worst Engineer." http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/nardo-design-empire.php http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/nardo-design-empire.php (That may not be the original link, but it was the first result on google.)
- mynameishere 17y agoThis is getting silly, but it reminds me of, http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/02cobra.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/02cobra.html
- aik 17y agoHilarious. Valid points. I'm sure he could go on and mention another 100 or even 1000 things. I love Star Wars still.
- pfedor 17y agoIt is not true that R2-D2 can't handle stairs. You can see him walk the stairs in Episode 2.
- jackchristopher 17y agoAnd yet this is realistic. Wouldn't you expect a big, clumsy organization like the Empire to be inept at design? They should've outsourced. It's inefficiencies like this that keep people like Boba Fett employed.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoThe building's maintenance department still hasn't fixed one of our office doors. The springs are broken, and it's a heavy glass door. It could break your hand or brain you pretty good if you're not aware that the spring is malfunctioning. It's been two months. And we're not even a gigantic corporation.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoThey should've outsourced. How do you know they didn't? Predatory consultants and contractors absolutely flourish by hanging off the underbellies of large institutions. Somewhere in the Empire, some corporation is billing $450 per replacement blaster trigger.
- keltecp11 17y agoThis was fantastic. Very well done and hysterical.
- tome 17y agoFlagged. It's humourous, but there's no real intelligence or insight here worthy of Hacker News.
- liquidben 17y agoHow weird is it that I just read this webcomic from 2003 yesterday. And it did the same joke http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/177.html http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/177.html
- figital 17y agoEwoks are cheap Wookies: http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=172 http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=...
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- tetha 17y agoregarding C3-PO: Remember that Anaking skywalker built this guy when he was around 12. Imo it is just realistic that C3-PO is no super-agile-perfectly-engineered battle robot, but a bit quirky