Here's the top MCS tags found for "star"

• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• Stargate
• Starcraft
• Star Wars: Episode 6: Return of the Jedi
• Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith
• LEGO Star Wars
• Star Trek: Into Darkness
• Starbucks
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Wars: Rebels
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• StarCraft II
• Star Trek: Nemesis
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Battle Beyond The Stars
• Dark Star
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• The Last Starfighter
• Star Wars: Episode 7: The Force Awakens
• Starship Troopers
• Fist of the North Star
• Homestar Runner
• StarTalk
• Star-Lord
• Stargate: Universe
• Star Wars: Battlefront
• Star Fox
• Men Who Stare At Goats
• The Star
• The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek: Beyond
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• Star Citizen
• Star Wars: Celebration
• Starfire
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Starry Night
• Stargirl
• Star Trek: Voyager
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Starsky & Hutch
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Krystle Starr
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Star Wars: Episode 8: The Last Jedi
• Star Trek: Axanar
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Valdore-class warbird

What I assume to be the successor to the Romulan warbirds I\’ve been seeing since the first season of Star Trek: TNG. Too bad they made their debut in the last shitty film, Nemesis.

Cross of Iron

Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Bertold Brecht

The Second Coming

A woman takes her 16-year-old daughter to the doctor. The doctor says, ‘OK, Mrs. Jones, what’s the problem?”

The mother says, ‘It’s my daughter, Darla. She keeps getting these cravings, she’s putting on weight, and she’s sick most mornings.”

The doctor gives Darla a thorough examination, then turns to the mother and says, ‘Well, I don’t know how to tell you this, but your Darla is pregnant — about four months would be my guess.”

The mother says, ‘Pregnant?!? She can’t be. She has never even been left alone with a man! Have you Darla?”

Darla says, ‘No mother! I’ve never even kissed a man!”

The doctor walks over to the window and just stares out of it. About five minutes pass and finally the mother says, ‘Is there something wrong out there, doctor?”

The doctor replies, ‘No, not really. It’s just that the last time anything like this happened, a star appeared in the East and three wise men came over the hill. I’ll be darned if I’m going to miss it this time!”

Labor Legacy Monument – Hart Plaza, Detroit, MI.

Looks like a Stargate.

The Dumbbells

Explanation: These two nebulae are cataloged as M27 (left) and M76, popularly known as The Dumbbell and the Little Dumbbell. Not intended to indicate substandard mental prowess, their popular names refer to their similar, dumbbell or hourglass shapes. Both are planetary nebulae, gaseous shrouds cast off by dying sunlike stars, and are similar in physical size, at a light-year or so across. In each panel, the images were made at the same scale, so the apparent size difference is mostly because one is closer. Distance estimates suggest 1,200 light-years for the Dumbbell compared to 3,000 light-years or more for the Little Dumbell. These deep, narrow-band, false-color images show some remarkably complex structures in M27 and M76, highlighting emission from hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms within the cosmic clouds.

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Majel Barrett Roddenberry, ‘Nurse Chapel’ Dead at 76

RIP chickie.

www.accesshollywood.com/star-trek-creators-widow-passes-away_article_12706

Nip Tuck ?

years of festivals and shootings have gradually because of their past beauty. Yet this is no fault to go at large beatings of cosmetic surgery.

Bizarre Christmas Records

www.bizarrerecords.com/galleries/xmas/xmas.html

James Spader – One For The Ladies

Less Than Zero,
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
White Palace
Crash
Stargate
Secretary

OM NOM NOM FUCKING NOM.

Dual Lego Guns

I used to build lego guns too but not like these. original link: flickr.com/photos/bluestarmedia/880265798/

Flags of the Internet

1. Googlonia: In classical uncluttered white, contains four stars representing the Google cornerstones search, usability, relevance, and prosperous relations with the Chinese government.

2. Amazon.com: Consists of three horizontal stripes and an orange arrow in the middle. The color blue represents freedom (to buy stuff), and the arrow represents late-90s logo designs.

3. The Yahoo Kingdom: No particular meaning is attached to the fresh, colorful design of one of the oldest and most honorable of all ’net sites.

4. Boingboingistan: The Creative Commons licensed flag of #1 blog BoingBoing.net contains three vertical stripes (yellow, red, green) and a silly icon (white).

5. RIAA: The Recording Industry Association of America doesn’t allow republications of their flag.

Jacque Fresco

A very Interesting and inspiring man. You can check out his philosophies and more work at TheVenusProject.com All pictures copyrighted by the venus project.

Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916) is a futurist based in Venus, Florida, USA interested in the areas of industrial engineering, architectural design, and social engineering, though he does not have any formal university education in those fields[1]. He started The Venus Project together with Roxanne Meadows. His optimistic view and desire to create solutions that maximally benefit the greatest number of people stem from his formative years during the Great Depression.[citation needed] To this day he writes and lectures extensively on subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits it will bring to society.

Suicide Circle (Suicide Club)

A wonderfully twisted movie including people killing themselves in mass, crazy Japanese rock stars, cops who can’t figure it out, and children mysteriously controlling everything

Gattaca movie poster

Another fantastic film starring Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law at what I believe is his best. This film made me think very long and hard about what kind of person I am.

T’pol

T’Pol is the first Vulcan officer to serve a prolonged term on a human vessel. The previous record was 10 days; by comparison, T’Pol served aboard the Enterprise for ten years (2151-2161). As a Sub-Commander serving the Vulcan High Command, she was stationed aboard the Enterprise in April 2151, as an observer to Captain Jonathan Archer and his crew, whom the High Command insisted were not ready for interstellar space exploration. After the success of the Enterprise’s initial mission led to the vessel being given an extended exploration mandate, T’Pol requested to stay aboard.

T’Pol remained aboard the Enterprise despite several attempts by her superiors to recall her to Vulcan. T’Pol’s decision brought considerable scrutiny upon her from her superiors, and increasing support for her from her captain; she ultimately resigned from the High Command and accepted a field commission from Starfleet in 2154, resulting in her being given the Starfleet field rank of Commander.

The Tata Nano… the $2500 Car from India

The Tata Nano is a proposed city car †a small, affordable, rear-engined, four-passenger car aimed primarily at the Indian market †first presented by India’s Tata Motors at the 9th annual Auto Expo on January 10, 2008 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India.

Tata targets the vehicle as the least expensive production car in the world †aiming for a starting price of 100,000 rupees or approximately $2300 US.

Newsweek identifies the Nano as a part of a “new breed of 21st-century cars” that embody “a contrarian philosophy of smaller, lighter, cheaper” and portend a new era in inexpensive personal transportation †and potentially, “global gridlock” . The Wall Street Journal confirms a global trend toward small cars, which includes the Nano.

The prefix “Nano” derives from the Greek root ‘nanos’, meaning dwarf †as with nanometre. “Nano” also means “small” in Gujarati, the native language of the Tata family, founders of the Tata Group.

Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado

Explanation: What’s happening over the horizon? Although the scene may appear somehow supernatural, nothing more unusual is occurring than a setting Sun and some well placed clouds. Pictured above are anticrepuscular rays. To understand them, start by picturing common crepuscular rays that are seen any time that sunlight pours though scattered clouds. Now although sunlight indeed travels along straight lines, the projections of these lines onto the spherical sky are great circles. Therefore, the crepuscular rays from a setting (or rising) sun will appear to re-converge on the other side of the sky. At the anti-solar point 180 degrees around from the Sun, they are referred to as anticrepuscular rays. Pictured above is a particularly striking set of anticrepuscular rays photographed in 2001 from a moving car just outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Fomalhaut b

Explanation: Fomalhaut (sounds like “foam-a-lot”) is a bright, young, star, a short 25 light-years from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation Piscis Austrinus. In this sharp composite from the Hubble Space Telescope, Fomalhaut’s surrounding ring of dusty debris is imaged in detail, with overwhelming glare from the star masked by an occulting disk in the camera’s coronagraph. Astronomers now identify, the tiny point of light in the small box at the right as a planet about 3 times the mass of Jupiter orbiting 10.7 billion miles from the star (almost 14 times the Sun-Jupiter distance). Designated Fomalhaut b, the massive planet probably shapes and maintains the ring’s relatively sharp inner edge, while the ring itself is likely a larger, younger analog of our own Kuiper Belt – the solar system’s outer reservoir of icy bodies. The Hubble data represent the first visible-light image of a planet circling another star. .
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More sexy

Judging by the responses from the last half-nekkid guy post, this board is starved for beefcake.

The Hip Live Between Us

Done by a former member of the The Tragically Hip, Davis Manning, this mural in a back alley behind a tattoo parlor in Kingston, ON, depicts the impact the band was having on his relationship with his girlfriend. In 1986 Manning eventually chose his girlfriend, while the band went on to become superstars in Canada.
Originally not realizing that Manning drew the mural (thinking instead that a fan did it and that they were actually making it big), the band thought it would be a good album name, using “live” as an adjective rather than a verb. They named their 1996 live album “The Hip Live Between Us” after it.
I live in Kingston, and unfortunately I never saw it before it was repainted

More at www.hipmuseum.com/lbu.html and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Between_Us

The Double Ring Galaxies of Arp 147 from Hubble

Explanation: How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? Even more strange: how could two? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right shows an immense ring-like structure 30,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars. This blue galaxy is part of the interacting galaxy system known as Arp 147, and shows a ring because it has recently collided with the other galaxy in the frame, the red galaxy on the left. Unusually, even this red galaxy shows a ring like band, although it is seen nearly edge-on. When galaxies collide, they pass through each other — their individual stars rarely come into contact. Clouds of interstellar gas and dust become condensed, causing a wave of star formation to move out from the impact point like a ripple across the surface of a pond. The above image was taken last week by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to demonstrate the ability of its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 after some recent technical difficulties.
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Ghetto Chic: the Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra Louis Vuitton Limited Edition

Ladies and gentlemen, behold the very definition of ghetto chic: the ‘89 Oldsmobile Cutlass Siera Louis Vuitton Limited Edition, decorated and driven by Steve LaNasa:

this is my car. It all started when the hippie who lived in the apartment behind my house lost his car. As in misplaced. When the cops showed up three weeks later to inform him that it was parked on the next block over, he graciously sold it to me for the low, low price of 250 bucks, having bought a new car in the interim. I promptly scraped off the 800 bumper stickers and went to work. First, I took it to Earl Scheib and had it given a heavy coat of “Chocolate Glitter.” Then I painted the trim, wheel holes, the dash, steering wheel, and all the other interior with a heavy coat of gold enamel. After that, I spent a week in the garage stenciling the logos on with gold spray paint and gold leaf. A quick top-coat at Earl’s and I was good to go. So far, it’s been a really bad influence on me…whenever people take my picture in it, I just can’t seen to keep my finger out of my nose. And when folks pull up next to me at the stoplight and start revving their engines, I just want to floor it. And sometimes I do.

(Note the broken grill)

Free Food on Election Day

I don’t care who you are voting for, it’s free food!

Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free single-scoop ice cream cones and Krispy Kreme is giving away free star-shaped hot doughnuts on Election Day, November 4, 2008. You have to bring your “I Voted” sticker or your voter ID.

Eta Carinae

Wallpaper size

Eta Carinae, a hypergiant luminous blue variable star in the Carina constellation and one of the most massive and most luminous stars yet discovered, and the bipolar Homunculus Nebula which surrounds it. The nebula was partly created in an eruption of Eta Carinae, whose light reached Earth in 1843. Eta Carinae itself appears as the white patch near the center of the image, where the 2 lobes of the Homunculus touch.

Max

Allow him to stare deep into the depths of your pitiful soul.

A Spectre in the Eastern Veil

Explanation: Menacing flying forms and garish colors are a mark of the Halloween season. They also stand out in this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape covering nearly 3 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, this portion of the eastern Veil spans only 1/2 degree, about the apparent size of the Moon. That translates to 12 light-years at the Veil’s estimated distance of 1,400 light-years from planet Earth. In this composite of image data recorded through narrow band filters, emission from hydrogen atoms in the remnant is shown in red with strong emission from oxygen atoms in greenish hues. In the western part of the Veil lies another seasonal apparition, the Witch’s Broom.

It looks like 3D w/out the glasses.

Wallpaper

My pet cat Katie

she was a good cat for the most part but unfortunately, we had to give her away when she started attacking my daughter while she was learning to crawl.. she scratched my daughter up pretty bad, but now Katie has a new home

My Pet Cat: Piper

Piper is now a great-grandmother at 9 yrs. old. I know because her kittens were scattered amongst my friends & family. I used to have one of the cats from her first litter (of 2), but he started pissing everywhere – long after he was fixed – so he went to live on the farm. (I think he really hated my one roommate at the time, seriously. He just pissed all over his stuff.)

I like the outside picture because the focus is on her face, but the rest of the picture looks schizophrenic – like her. I like the other one because it shows some of the apartment I’m living in now with the freakin’ gianormous front door.

My pet cat – Annabelle “Baldwin”

Trust me when I say that I know my cat has a really stupid nickname. She was given that name because when we got her as a kitten she had bald spots on her head. Now me being ten years old at the time and retarded I just started calling her Baldwin. =P My mother refers to her as Annabelle though.

And the orange helmet pic was taken about three years ago. I gave her it to protect her from the nigras.

My Pet Manx

This is Munch, and he’s a little bastard.

Haunting the Cepheus Flare

Explanation: Spooky shapes seem to haunt this starry expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds faintly visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, they lurk at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over 2 light-years across and brighter than the other ghostly apparitions, the nebula known as Sh2-136 near the center of the field is even seen in infrared light. Also cataloged as Bok globule CB230, the core of that cloud is collapsing and is likely a binary star system in the early stages of formation.

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San Antonio Zombie Walk: Zombie Jesus

I went as Zombie Jesus for lulz, or to start a fight with stupid Christians. Turns out it was pretty epic according to the general consensus.

Amazing Comet Holmes

Explanation: One year ago, Comet 17P/Holmes amazed sky watchers across planet Earth. A stunningly rapid outburst transformed it from a faint comet quietly orbiting the Sun with a period of about 7 years to a naked-eye comet rivaling the brighter stars in the constellation Perseus. Its largely tail-less shape, as in this wide-angle view recorded on November 11, 2007, became well-known to astronomers trying to unravel the mystery of the comet’s surprising outburst . Still, Comet Holmes had a dim ion tail that was seen to separate from the bright coma. In this image, the separated tail creates the illusion of a reflection nebula. It appears as a faint bluish haze right of center against a background of stars in the loosely grouped Alpha Persei Moving Cluster.

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Batcake

This cake was close to 300 lbs. All the figures were edible. Some bastard has cut it.

Confetti Cakes

Headless Prom Queen Halloween Costume

This is a Halloween costume we made for my daughter: the Headless Prom Queen. The town I live in has a parade & costume judging contest for the kids. She took first place…. well, for her age group. But! one of the judges told us, if they could have picked an overall winner for the day, it would have been her. The stares and laughs she got were priceless. She had a blast. And no, she’s not some crazy freak kid; last year she was a princess, the year before a bumble bee.

Great Orion Nebulae

Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulae in the sky. The star forming region’s glowing gas clouds and hot young stars are on the right in this sharp and colorful two frame mosaic that includes the smaller nebula M43 near center and dusty, bluish reflection nebulae NGC 1977 and friends on the left. Located at the edge of an otherwise invisible giant molecular cloud complex, these eye-catching nebulae represent only a small fraction of this galactic neighborhood’s wealth of interstellar material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems. The gorgeous skyscape spans nearly two degrees or about 45 light-years at the Orion Nebula’s estimated distance of 1,500 light-years.

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FIND MUCK

the one that made me stare at it for 3 mins.

Mutant K

This is an 8th month old 2nd generatin mutant. It starts back with grandmom that was a train wreak x Northern light daddy that produced my clone to which had some trouble starting- added steriods and vola a growth to seed with a neighbors Afgan daddy to produce this mutant K-(I call it that for the Potasium that is needed for growth + other good stuff) You can see what the difference is between two lights 1-SPOTLIGHT TYPE FULL SPECTRUM 2-FLORESENT TYPE CEILING WHITE LIGHT

Ginormous Ferris Wheels

In Ascending order:
1. The London “Millennium” Eye – 443Ft/Mar 2000 (Off center A-Frame)
2. The Star of Nanchang – 525Ft/Apr 2006
3. The Great Wheel of Berlin – 607Ft/2009
4. Dubai Wheel – 607ft(or larger)/2009
5. Great Wheel of China – 684Ft/2009

Not shown:
6. Great Orlando Wheel – 400ft/2010
7. Singapore Flyer – 541Ft/Mar 2008

The final Dubai wheel size is currently still up in the air, since they may go for a 686Ft wheel just to outdo the Great China wheel… Typical Dubai…

More info: Inventor Spot

Bright Bolide

Explanation: On September 30, a spectacular bolide or fireball meteor surprised a group of amateur astronomers enjoying dark night skies over the Oklahoma panhandle’s Black Mesa State Park in the Midwestern US. Flashing past familiar constellations Taurus (top) and Orion, the extremely bright meteor was captured by a hillside camera overlooking the 2008 Okie-Tex Star Party. Astronomy enthusiast Howard Edin reports that he was looking in the opposite direction at the time, but saw the whole observing field light up and at first thought someone had turned on their car headlights. So far the sighting of a such a bright bolide meteor, produced as a space rock is vaporized hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere, really is a matter of luck. But that could change. Earlier this week the discovery and follow-up tracking of tiny asteroid 2008 TC3 allowed astronomers to predict the time and location of its impact with the atmosphere. While no ground-based sightings of the fireball seem to have been reported, this first ever impact prediction was confirmed by at least some detections of an air burst and bright flash on October 7th over northern Sudan.

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Dust Mountains in the Carina Nebula

Explanation: Bright young stars sometimes sculpt picturesque dust mountains soon after being born. Created quite by accident, the energetic light and winds from these massive newborn stars burn away accumulations of dark dust and cool gas in a slow but persistent manner. Such is the case in NGC 3324, a star forming region near the edge of NGC 3372, the energetic and expansive Carina Nebula. Pictured above, in scientifically assigned colors, is only a small part of NGC 3324. The Carina Nebula itself is one of the largest star forming regions known and home to Eta Carinae, one of the most unstable and variable stars known. The above image was created from archived Hubble Space Telescope data in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project. The Hubble Heritage Project has created, so far, nearly 130 visually stunning images.

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Planets Ahoy!

Explanation: Can you spot the Solar System’s four rocky planets? In the above image taken on September 20, all of them were visible in a single glance, but some of them may be different than you think. Pictured above, the brightest and highest object in the sky is the planet Venus. The object lowest in the sky is the planet Mars, while the object furthest to the left is the planet Mercury. The last remaining point of light is . . . the bright star Spica, which leaves the question — where is the fourth rocky planet? That would be Earth, specifically part of Australia, visible across the entire bottom of the image.

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It’s a good month for sky-watchers in Perth.

Ronn Scorpion Hydrogen fuel supercar

Upstart Exotic Hydrogen fueled sports car maker Ronn Motor Company is Beginning to take orders for its 450 HP twin turbo 45 MPG super car.
First year production is limted to 200 automobiles and scheduled to to begin early 2009

* Scorpion Price: $USD 150,000
* Limited Edition Scorpion HX Price: $USD 250,000
* Production Reservation $1000.00

Child Obesity

Done with comics, starting on the Random folder.

Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun

Explanation: Why has the Sun been so quiet recently? No one is sure. Our Sun has shown few active regions — that house even fewer associated sunspots — for over a year now, and such a period of relative calm is quite unusual. What is well known is that our Sun is in a transitional period between solar cycles called a Solar Minimum, where solar activity has historically been reduced. The stark lack of surface tumult is unusual even during a Solar Minimum, however, and activity this low has not been seen for many decades. A few days ago, however, a bona-fide active region — complete with sunspots –appeared and continues to rotate across the Sun’s face. Visible above, this region, dubbed Active Region 1002 (AR 1002), was imaged in ultraviolet light yesterday by the SOHO spacecraft, which co-orbits the Sun near the Earth. Besides the tranquility on the Sun’s surface, recent data from the Ulysses spacecraft, across the Solar System, indicate that the intensity of the solar wind blowing out from the Sun is at a fifty year low. Predictions hold, however, that our Sun will show more and more active regions containing more and more sunspots and flares until Solar Maximum occurs in about four years.

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The Ultimate Pie Chart

Mmmm… Pie…

Found@DRB
www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/super-star-mobile-skyscraper.html

TIE Fighter

“The standard mount point for the primary weapons of a TIE craft is just below the forward cockpit window on the main hull ball. Vessels designed for mainly non-combat roles may have a single central cannon with a barrel gauge of several centimetres, but the most common configuration on combat ships is a pair of laser cannons side by side. Placement of guns near the centre of a fighter provides a stable weapons platform and may provide slight advantages to pilot aim. [Central placement is reported as an advantage in performance comparisons between World War 2 fightercraft.]

The laser cannons are usually represented as short cylindrical protrusions from the hull plating. An alternative form of laser cannon takes the form of an orange conical device of a size similar to the cylinder-type cannons. These seemingly simple structures evidently are not the only mechanism involved, because the blast bolts can be shot out in many different directions. Although this isn’t obvious to the eye, something inside the weapons must be capable of swivelling. The pilot may direct his fire anywhere within the field of view without turning his craft, and the tracking does not detectably delay the bolts’ firing. This is a significant advantage over the more static armaments of most rebel starfighters, such as the X-Wing and Y-Wing,

Some models of TIE interceptors and other heavier combat craft mount laser cannons and ion cannons on forward tips or the hubs of the wings. The reasons for this are not entirely clear: there may be tactical and practical advantages in having the cannons widely spaced; or it may simply be a matter of main cockpit ball being too tightly packed with other systems. Direct attachment to the radiators might allow a marginal improvement in the cooling of overheated weapons, or it might allow easier access for maintenance crews. Spreading the fire may improve strafing, and may boost the chances of scoring a few hits even when a few of the linked shots miss. Another possible advantage is redundancy of guns on a partially-damaged fighter: a single grazing hit cannot ruin all of the interceptor’s weapons at once. In any case, most designs with wing-mounted guns already have the standard chin guns; wing guns usually seem to be supplemental.

The bolts fired from TIE laser cannons are consistently green in colour, at least on the military models. Green blaster bolts appear to be exclusive to spacecraft and artillery in Imperial service. The physical significance of this is unclear.” – Dr Curtis Saxton

New Site Feature!

You figure it out you stupid bastards!

Command Ships

“According to The STAR WARS Sourcebook there were four Executor-class vessels in service in the time immediately following the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope. By the time of the Battle of Endor, four years later, their success had led the Imperial Navy to construct many more, acting as standard command vessels throughout the Galactic Empire. Piloting a stolen shuttle to Endor, Han Solo was unsurprised to see the Executor in orbit, acting as the command station for processing security clearances for passage through the deflector shield protecting the new Death Star. When Luke Skywalker announced that Vader was present, Solo responded “Now don’t get jittery Luke; there are a lot of command ships.” Clearly the Executor’s siblings were relatively abundant by that time, or at least no longer rare. Most were probably put to use as flagships for Grand Admirals, Grand Moffs and important Moffs. For instance, the Black Sword Fleet near Farlax sector was led by three Executor-class command ships.” – Dr Curtis Saxton

Giant Spider Attacks London!

A giant mechanical spider hangs from a disused building in the centre of Liverpool, England, Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008, in readiness for the start of a five-day piece of street theatre as part of the European Capital of Culture.

The spider has been built by French company La Machine, which in 2006 displayed a similar artwork called The Sultan’s Elephant, in London.