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[hoplitejoe]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/7315_429186650512590_46250302_n.jpg

 

[dragonprobably]

http://nerdyfacts.tumblr.com/archive/2012/8

 

[cardgame]

http://i.imgur.com/D5cQqP1.png

 

[W|M]

http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1002786_527417290639924_2034406392_n.jpg

 

[hoplitejoe]

http://eve3ds.tumblr.com/post/52714621419/the-villager

 

[dragonprobably]

http://www.smashbros.com/images/character/rockman/screen-1.jpg

 

[SouthernKing]

Economy: 76

 

[cardgame]

ugh

twerking is worse than crocs, uggs, IE, comic sans, planking, instagramming everything and #randomhashtags all put together

 

[hoplitejoe]

http://onion.com/11WkzKZ

 

[ales_]

let's play civilization

 

[SouthernKing]

Austria/Gem Hound
Capital: Vienna
Fascist Dictatorship: Adolf Hitler
Dissent: 10%
Economy: 45-11/0: Demobilized
Research: Army (60), Armor (10), Navy (10), Air (25)
Army: 35 Infantry III Brigades, 5 Mountain Brigades, 3 Mounted Brigades, 3 Artillery II Brigades
Navy: Landlocked
Air Force: 3 Fighter I Wings, 1 Bomber I Wing, 1 Interceptor I Wing
Projects:

 

[hoplitejoe]

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/the-last-of-us

 

[cardgame]

http://i.imgur.com/M2Fetvl.png

 

[Optical]

Noun
any abstract or concrete entity; a person (police officer, Michael), place (coastline, London), thing (necktie, television), idea (happiness), or quality (bravery)
Pronoun
any substitute for a noun or noun phrase
Adjective
any qualifier of a noun
Verb
any action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be)
Adverb
any qualifier of an adjective, verb, clause, sentence, or other adverb
Preposition
any establisher of relation and syntactic context
Conjunction
any syntactic connector
Interjection
any emotional greeting (or "exclamation")

 

[Bratmon]

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If you assume the Death Star does indeed have to orbit Yavin (rather than just scooting around under its own power, as it obviously is capable of doing), then the Imperial officer has a point. To orbit faster without flying off into interplanetary space, you have to orbit lower. And below a certain altitude, called the Roche limit, tidal forces generated by the primary object (Yavin in this case) will tend to rip the orbiting body apart.

And yes, the structural strength of the Death Star means it can orbit a bit below the idealised Roche limit without flying apart, but the officer has already stated that they are orbiting at maximum velocity, which implies that they are right at the actual limit below which the Death Star would be threatened.
2013-06-12 Rerun commentary: It's good to have a stormtrooper in the background, just... guarding.

The stormtrooper guns are actually just a LEGO megaphone reversed, with an orange piece on the end. I can just imagine some poor trooper accidentally picking up the wrong piece of equipment and getting blasted in his own face with a wave of amplified sound.
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[dragonprobably]

Funny Horsie

 

[KaiserElectric]

Therefore you admit that, because it is up to nations, it is therefore entirely political and at the whim of popularity. The ambiguity is simply there to give the UN far-reaching powers, no clear mandate, and the ability to gravely punish countries at the whim of the UN controllers.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

http://undergroundbombshelter.com/images/nuclear-bomb-test.jpg

 

[SamSniped]

http://i.imgur.com/eHVkEV7.png

 

[hoplitejoe]

http://i.imgur.com/NLzot8n.png