Sunday, April 11, 2004

Q&A

Why did the Empire build the Death Star with all those long drops and no handrails?

So that may not be one of the great cosmic questions of all time, but unlike the meaning of life, I think I may have an answer to this one after having watched the last half hour of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones on HBO last night, for about the 15th time (being fair, only five of those times were in the theater). The Death Star is a Geonosian design. Geonosians, being insectiod, can fly. If you could fly, would you waste your time putting handrails around every precipitous drop?

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