Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back This article is about the movie Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. You may be looking for the in-universe axiom "The Empire strikes back". "If you only knew the power of the dark side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.""He told me enough! He told me you killed him."" ―Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker[src] The film concerns the continuing struggles of the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire. Opening crawl Edit Synopsis The search for Skywalker Edit "We have thousands of probe droids searching the galaxy. ―Admiral Kendel Ozzel[src] It is now three years after the events of A New Hope. An Imperial Star Destroyer dispatched by the Sith Lord Darth Vader, continuing his quest for Luke Skywalker, launches thousands of probe droids across the galaxy, one of which lands on Hoth and begins its survey of the planet. When Luke fails to report in at Echo Base, Han Solo goes out on his tauntaun to search for him in an encroaching storm. The Battle of Hoth Leia: "I love you."
110+ photos rares du tournage de Star Wars eclecticism, "Why do you hate the shape of breasts in plate armor so much?" What We've Learned About That New 'Star Wars' Character This morning, J.J. Abrams appeared on Good Morning America to announce a new Omaze campaign to benefit UNICEF that will give one lucky Star Wars fan (and a lucky friend) the chance to win a Star Destroyer-sized prize package, one that includes everything from a set visit to a part in the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII. He also gave fans a first look at the one of the film’s new characters, a wizened-looking working-class dude we’ll call Slouchy-Pants. This new ostrich-like fella, though, sports some serious facial hair — so much so, he brings to mind the late actor Keye Luke, star of Kung Fu and Gremlins. He has some critters collected in his backpack-rig; could be his grandchildren, could be different beasts he’s hunted and gathered for sale. This Abu Dhabi set (which the Hollywood Reporter says is being used as the new Tatooine) looks like a Jawa garage sale, complete with a guy behind Abrams who seems tall for a Jawa, but has borrowed an extra-long robe of theirs.
Why Are LEGO Sets Expensive? | Wired Science I’m not sure I would say LEGO blocks are that expensive, but the statement is that they are expensive because they are so well made. Really, this has to at least be partially true. If you take some blocks made in 1970, they still fit with pieces made today. That is quite impressive. But the real question is: what is the distribution of LEGO sizes? How does this distribution of sizes compare to other toys? Here is the plan. Here is my first set of data. These 88 measurements have an average of 15.814 mm with a standard deviation of 0.0265 mm. What about older LEGO pieces? Fortunately, I found one of my original sets from the late 70s. v I even have the instructions. The pieces from the 70s have an average of 15.819 mm with a standard deviation of 0.026 mm. How about something else? Maybe that wasn’t such a great plot. What About Other Objects? Do other things have high precision parts too? I found three different sets of objects to measure. Price Per Piece of LEGO About 10 cents per LEGO piece.
Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki Washington Post (Update: Second school joins protest, more background) Nearly all of the teachers at a Seattle high school have decided to refuse to give mandated standardized district tests called the Measures of Academy Progress because, they say, the exams don’t evaluate learning and are a waste of time. Now teachers at a second Seattle school, Ballard High, said they were joining the boycott, according to the Seattle Education website. Almost all of the teachers and staff at Garfield High signed a letter explaining that they oppose the MAP because it is a flawed test that students don’t take seriously and that is being used by administrators to evaluate teachers, a purpose for which it was not designed. According to Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, an organization devoted to stopping the misuse of standardized tests, the boycott is the first such school-wide effort in the country in a decade. We, the Garfield teachers, respectfully decline to give the MAP test to any of our students.
star wars - Is the Han/Leia vs Luke/Yoda timeline in The Empire Strikes Back broken? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange There are two likely explanations that would allow you to avoid considering this a "timeline error". 1) Luke's training took a lot less time than it may be assumed. Either due to Luke's innate abilities (midichlorian count? :) ) or the fact that Force training to a certain level is a kind of phase shift event - you gain a certain level of control (Which can take any amount of time from 1 day to 10 years) and you obtain a set of skills/abilities, the rest of "Jedi Training" time is merely honing those. 2) Travel to Cloud City took a lot longer than to Dagobah. Yeah, the Millennium Falcon is a fast ship, but the galaxy is pretty big AND Han was trying to avoid the Imperials, so may have had to take a somewhat roundabout route. P.S. Though, if you ask me to put my money on a specific answer, "timeline error" would be my bet.
Five organisms with real super powers that rival their comic book counterparts There is no force more creative than the painstakingly slow process of evolution. Ever wanted to walk through walls? Naked mole rats can physically bore through concrete. How about fly? There are a couple dozen different ways to accomplish that goal, even if you’re a squid. Incredible power of regeneration? Some real super power are more super than others: 1. Bdelloid Rotifers. photo by Diego Fontaneto Around 80 million years ago, a small, unassuming group of metazoa decided that sex just wasn’t for them. Bdelloid rotifers are incredibly tough. Bdelloid rotifers’ super power appears when they recover from their dormant state. 2. Scaly-foot Snail. Rogue isn’t the only X-Man with an Earth-1218 counterpart. 3. What if your body wasn’t your own? How to describe Sacculina? Here’s where things get weird. Sacculina carcini. 4. Who wouldn’t want to be a shapeshifter? 5. What good is a super power without a compelling origin story? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Microscopic images of melanized fungal cells:.
Order of Worship for #StarWars Sunday: May the Fourth Be With You | Hacking Christianity This coming Sunday is May the Fourth. Many congregations are unaware that it is a High Holy Sunday, with an ancient liturgy commemorating it as Star Wars Sunday: May the Fourth Be With You. I am sure that everyone wants to commemorate it. It can seem like “It’s a trap!” Here’s an annotated template for an Order of Worship in the Star Wars tradition that would be wholly appropriate for May the Fourth (be with you). Order of Worship Prelude [may use bells like this church] Call To Worship [recitation of the Jedi/Sith Codes, found on page 12 in the Book of C-3PO Prayer] Jedi Worship service: There is no emotion, there is peace. Sith Worship service: Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Processional Hymn [celebrating the true beginning of the story – A New Hope] Seek ye first the droids on Tatooine.Oh, For a Thousand TatooinesO little grounds of Alderaan / How dim we see thee glow [TOO SOON]It only takes a spark / To get a Death Star glowing! Sunday Collect Anthem Sermon [suggestions below]
Literacy Privilege: How I Learned to Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s Grammar on the Internet | Painting the Grey Area My name is Chandra, and I am a recovering grammar snob. There was a time that it gave me a blush of pride to be referred to as “the Spelling Sergeant” or “the Punctuation Police”. I would gleefully tear a syntactic strip out of anybody who fell victim to the perils of poor parallelism or the menace of misplaced modifiers. I railed against atrostrophes and took a red pen to signs posted in staff rooms, bulletin boards and public washrooms. I was, to put it bluntly, really, really annoying. Four years ago, I was hired in a program that helps disadvantaged adults acquire fundamental literacy skills. It’s a tough habit to break, though. It’s one thing to take an erudite journalist or grandiloquent blogger (don’t know any of those, myself) down a notch, although there are valid arguments against even this; grammatical exactitude can suffocate creativity and clarity, and many prescriptive rules were totally fabricated by Latin-centric snobs. This is no trifling issue, either. Like this:
Star Wars Fan Edit Kills Off Jar Jar Binks Poor old Jar Jar still doesn't get any respect. More than 14 years after the Gungan first appeared in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, he attracts more enmity than any children's character since Barney the purple dinosaur. Some of the staunchest defenders of the Star Wars prequels can't stand him; even at Lucasfilm, you can find a full-size sculpture of Jar Jar encased in carbonite, presented to the company by one of its fan clubs. That's why one fan's version of a deleted scene from Phantom Menace has been doing the rounds Wednesday. Here's the original deleted scene, in which Jar Jar survives: The re-edit may not be as satisfying a death as the haters were hoping for. Image: MATT CAMPBELL/AFP/Getty Images
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. Illustration by Slate. Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong. And yet people who use two spaces are everywhere, their ugly error crossing every social boundary of class, education, and taste.* You'd expect, for instance, that anyone savvy enough to read Slate would know the proper rules of typing, but you'd be wrong; every third email I get from readers includes the two-space error. (In editing letters for "Dear Farhad," my occasional tech-advice column, I've removed enough extra spaces to fill my forthcoming volume of melancholy epic poetry, The Emptiness Within.) A Slate Plus Special Feature: Never, ever use two spaces after a period: Listen to Mike Vuolo read Farhad Majoo’s classic takedown of an enduring typographic sin. What galls me about two-spacers isn't just their numbers. Typographers, that's who. Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. This readability argument is debatable.