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.
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.)
a question left best unexplored.
Must....resist....going....SWgeek.....
On a planet that is mostly desert, I don't see why moisture could not be considered a crop.
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.
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?
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.
Nutty, how do you feel about the Batman character in general? When you describe him as
anger management,
I think, well, that's Batman. If you don't buy that, you don't buy
my
Batman.
