I was almost asleep, when the following question popped insistingly into my consciousness:
What is a 'moisture farm'?
Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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tommyrot - Jun 26, 2005 7:19:03 pm PDT #4613 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gris - Jun 26, 2005 7:27:37 pm PDT #4614 of 10002
Hey. New board.
It's a large tract of desert land covered with machines called "vaporators" that, as near as I can tell, use some sort of condensation procedure to pull what little moisture out of the air there is. The moisture, which has magically become water, is then sold to the inhabitants of said desert.
Why these vaporators, which almost certainly use a very, very simple running principle, are so likely to break down in Star Wars canon is a question left best unexplored.
ETA: It's evident that I read way too many of the expanded universe novels when I was younger, isn't it? There's a reason my insistence about not seeing the third movie is so strong: my emotional investment is too great to handle another thrashing.
Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2005 7:31:52 pm PDT #4615 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There's a reason my insistence about not seeing the third movie is so strong: my emotional investment is too great to handle another thrashing.
But...it's really good.
tommyrot - Jun 26, 2005 7:32:09 pm PDT #4616 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, but there's crops involved too. Unless Uncle Owen ran both a moisture farm and an unspecified crop farm.
Why these vaporators, which almost certainly use a very, very simple running principle, are so likely to break down in Star Wars canon is a question left best unexplored.
Plus the vaporators speak a binary language. (Even though XML would make more sense.)
Una - Jun 26, 2005 8:08:10 pm PDT #4617 of 10002
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
a question left best unexplored.
Must....resist....going....SWgeek.....
Mr. Broom - Jun 26, 2005 10:07:07 pm PDT #4618 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
On a planet that is mostly desert, I don't see why moisture could not be considered a crop.
Volans - Jun 26, 2005 10:59:03 pm PDT #4619 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Why these vaporators, which almost certainly use a very, very simple running principle, are so likely to break down in Star Wars canon is a question left best unexplored.
They get clogged with sand?
"Sexist McCrucifixion" is PERFECT.
Nicklas - Jun 26, 2005 11:08:52 pm PDT #4620 of 10002
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
But...it's really good.
"Nooooooooooooooooooo!"
Jim - Jun 26, 2005 11:15:45 pm PDT #4621 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Why these vaporators, which almost certainly use a very, very simple running principle, are so likely to break down in Star Wars canon is a question left best unexplored.
Because the Fremen sabotage them lest they reduce the amount of moisture available for Liet-Kynes plan to make Arrakis a garden?
Nutty - Jun 27, 2005 3:20:17 am PDT #4622 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Good morning, all. I saw Batman Begins last night. I found it big and explodey and dumb, and it totally failed to transmit any real city-ness in its cityscape. It just screamed fake, to me, and not in that "I am so fake I come around the bend back to a wack realism" thing that Tim Burton does.
Also, call me picky, but aren't humans 80% water? If your weapon is designed to vaporize the water supply, why isn't it also vaporizing humans? And if you have a weapon that can vaporize humans, why the elaborate hoodoo with the water supply? Get your act together you stupid villains!
Katie Holmes is a waste of skin. Not that that is news. The best character by a very long stretch was Scarecrow, although his motivation made no sense (and, Cillian Murphy is wee!). Batman did nothing for me, and that is a bad sign when he is the title character. He should have been scarier. Even if the plot had made a lick of sense, I wouldn't have liked the movie with that anger-management Batman.