This is very thought-provoking. I've always been suspicious of the official account.
#2 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:19 pm
by Hotfoot
Every time he said "Aldebraan" I winced.
#3 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:25 pm
by Batman
Not to mention the little factoid that the failed shots weren't made by Wedge, but by Red Leader. Quality research there guys but what can you expect from Imperials?
#4 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:09 pm
by Cynical Cat
What do expect from a truther? I'm just surprised that he didn't think KDY was behind everything.
#5 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:43 pm
by frigidmagi
There's also the fact that Han Solo is a public figure. There's no mystery about that freighter.
#6 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:32 pm
by Josh
Han wasn't a well-known public figure at that point. He was an obscure smuggler.
Personally I wouldn't be surprised at all if KDY didn't have a hand in things. Death Star production cut seriously into the Star Destroyer budget. I mean, how many millions of AT-ATs could've been made with all the metal that was poured into that machine? Right? Right?
#7 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:36 pm
by frigidmagi
No one knew Vader was Luke's father then either. By the time that's common knowledge, Han is a public figure. Not that you couldn't make that work in the theory. He did marry Leia after all.
#8 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:38 pm
by Batman
Except...that video called Leia Leia Organa Solo, clearly indicating it was made sometime after her marriage to Han, at which point, yes, he was?
#9 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:40 pm
by Josh
Damn, you fuckers are fast.
I will now utilize truther tactic number three and ignore contradictory evidence while raising more questions.
See, what's always gotten me was the perfectly circular nature of the explosion, which is more suggestive of a controlled detonation. And that ring that comes out of the explosion? You can find footage where that ring clearly doesn't come out, indicating that the footage has been substantially altered.
What is the Emperor hiding?
#10 Re: The Death Star: An Inside Job?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:49 pm
by Batman
Depends on when that video was made. If it's past Dark Empire, he's not hiding a thing on account of finally being dead for keeps.
I'd have to run a lot more analysis than I care to (meaning I can't be arsed to do it) but off hand I fail to see what's unusual about the explosion of a spherical space station being blown apart by a reactor at its center going kablooey being spherical.
Now the ring is certainly problematic, but feel free to explain how the Alliance having somehow planted explosives in the Death Star accounts for that any better than the official version.