Be Excellent To Each Other

I spoke to the owner today, as he called up from(a business trip - Ed). I should have said "You should totally give me a job, dude, I can fly your jet" Then we could have talked about aeroplanes for abit. I think he was a bit lonely, as he started calling the CEO, then worked his way down through the IMs, until he got to my phone (IR).

Speaking of hairdressers, I chose my usual place initially because it is bang next-door to a nerd shop which has a full-size replica Imperial Dalek in its window display. It's nice for a service outlet to have a visual 'hook', in my opinion.

Speaking of Daleks, when coming out of work I encountered an enraged man in an electric wheelchair shouting xenophobic abuse at some passing foreign students ("Go back to your own country, you foreign gits").

... Speaking of gits?

The building used by my hairdressers used to be a public toilet.

Glass of port before bed clearly was an idea that Kissyfur would have. Well tired and with a thick head today.

I slept like a log last night. Also, very confusing for the bedroom still to be dark(ish) at 6am when my alarm went off. I've really got used to getting up in bright sunshine.

2 +ve remarks on my Kernow rugby top so far today.

Yeah, I love port. However, and a schoolboy error here on your part, I'd have accompanied it with 200g or so of fine stilton, and then had bizarre dreams.

Take THAT, Lucas, you beardy cunt

Now he needs to write back to the group trying to make a full size AT-AT to whom he sent a cease and desist, and let them do it, the miserable fucker.

My uncle played rugby for Cornwall, although I think it was for their sevens, not the main side.

AT-AT's are fundamentally flawed. Stupid design to bring troops into battle.

Because they are too slow? They're pretty good at all terrain. And heavily armoured. I don't see any real flaw.

High center of gravity due to articulated legs, mainly, and stupid, vulnerable control center. Also, the troops are 88 stories above the battlefield.

legs give good accesibility on all terrain. I don't understand how a machine can be stupid. It has strong armour and good shields, the only way they destroyed it on Hoth was roping the legs. It withstood all the firing at it. What's wrong with a good viewpoint? You can see the whole battlefield and then get better accuracy with the weapons firing down.

Twas on the Beeb website earlier this week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14287864



I was going to add a Youtube link here to a small craft with a bit of rope destroying one , however it seems there are *no* star wars clips on youtube at all - so just use your imagination.

Also, getting your troops to the ground must be a rather lengthier process than having them just climb out the back of an IFV.

The bit I never understood was that the snowspeeders blasted away at it to no effect, but when it was on its knees, as it were, post tow-cable shenaniganry, all of a sudden the blasters asplodify it with one shot.

@Craster - remember this is a universe with anti-gravity tech, so they could probably just jump out and float down. Or use Doozers.

because it's stupid

Your signature quote priviliges are revoked. And you're dead to me now.

If the empire weren't such bad tacticians, they'd have slightly smaller crafts (AT-STs) to protect the legs of the AT-ATs. They're basically tanks on legs.

Everyone here is fucking off for an extended lunch as woman is going on 3 month paid sabbatical.

Except me, who has to stay and 'cover the phones'.

the design is stupid. it's like a big stupid mechanical donkey which does fuck all. apart from fall over. it's be 100% better if it, oh, i dunno, shat bothans or something. it should be lower to the ground and have tracks or wheels.

They do, though.

And, as you've already pointed out, the only way the rebels blew them up was by using the old "ropes around the legs" trick, which has been used by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Buck the Weasel.

Why were they walking towards the base anyway? Surely, if they knew where it was, some sort of bombardment from space or high atmosphere would've been more efficient. They weren't looking to take prisoners IIRC

It's also part of my courtship ritual.

To knock out the ion Cannon.

Shields - the AT-ATs were there to blow up the shield generators.

Weren't they trying to take out the shield generators?

*shakes fist*

o/

Ahem, no.

they done it wrong, though. stupid mechanical donkey things.

I meant shield generators. It's early.

You're a stupid mechanical donkey

Space Rodeo!

Which reminds me, I've been hesitating to post the video I made of team calf tying, where one horseman ties the front legs and the other the hind ones. It's impressive, but, um, not sure that some of my friends on sinister Facebook would appreciate it.

The design is inherently wrong, as the joints at the knee, ankle and hip of the AT-AT are clear weak points. They are also needlessly complicted. It's almost as stupid as putting the bridge on a star destroyer at the very top of a sticky outy bit, rather than in the heavily armored core of the ship, and use view screens rather than glass windows.

I wonder what the stride length of an AT-AT is? I'd imagine they'd be pretty stumped by a decent ditch.

it's about the length of a snow speeder, no?

Yeah, the legs were too long. They would have done better basing it on a badger.

Or, y'know, hover tanks, like what them Rebels done got?

Also, I'd really not want to be in one if the surface we were travelling over hand any sort of camber, especially in a strong side wind. They'd tip over in an instant.

We'd have totally knocked that shield generator out, and be back home in time for tea and medals double quick time.

Also, why use Stormtroopers? The Trade Federation showed droids worked perfectly well, unless you've got Jedi on the other side.

Also, why didn't the rebels just capture a Stormtrooper, screen his DNA, then find/design a virulent bacterium that would infect them and make them have the poorlies? Stupid rebels.

Because they didn't know they were clones until the other films came out.

Because both sides were too busy firing aimlessly at eachother.

Cheaper



They weren't clones at that point.

Mole tanks! Burrow underneath shield, no gunfights needed

Surely a shield would be emitted in a sphere, with the generator at the center?

If you're quoting nerdy facts I don't know it might be time to re-evaluate your life choices.

I think we're all very far down that road Doc.

And it slopes downhill