The worst thing about this is ‘threepio’
Clueless about Biology
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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danjoubu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The worst worst part is that’s actually how it’s spelled in novelizations (or at least how they used to spell it). Artoo-Deetoo and See-Threepio.
andrewth09@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve never read a Star Wars book but this makes me unreasonably unset.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I was seven when I learned this and I’ve always hated it.
randomuser38529@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Danitos@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Not just 70s and 80s, even 90s and 2000s. I grew up in 2000s thinking it is called Arturito, and I’m sure a lot of people (mostly non fans) think the same.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Damn, I quite like that now.
danjoubu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is hilarious
gerbler@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I worked with an Arturo once and his nickname was R2
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 8 months ago
g_the_b@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s Star Wars. Of course someone took an offhand comment that wasn’t meant to be thought of past the scene it’s in and wrote a whole story about it.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Well if people like OP are going to hate on it of course someones going to work out an explanation for it.
Nurgus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
FIRST escape? Did he do it again??
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 months ago
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Well we know Tatooine orbits a pair of stars somehow and it’s still in the Goldilocks zone just enough to make it semi habitable still. My assumption is that these are white dwarfs or something smallish.
Could this be explained that the local year is much shorter? Add in that Hutt is well versed in his own biology which assuming a he isn’t strangled by a tentacle, could be slowly digested alive for a 1000 Tatooine years? He probably forgets that about his pathetic cute biped pets.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Just gonna point out that Tatooine used to be green and blue then the ancestors of the Jawa and Tusken did a slave revolt, the Rakata took offense to that so they made it glass.
Atleast thats true for legends and I frankly dont give a fuck what Disney has to say.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 months ago
Speaking of which, there’s actually a fairly compelling theory that Tattoine is the human home world in Star Wars. We know a few things about the origin of humanity in Star Wars, but it’s all from the time humanity was an unimportant slave race to the Rakstan Empire. We also know Tuskens are later biological descendants of humans that genetically split after the Rakatans fell, and that the Rakatans directly raided Tattoine for slaves, meaning Tattoine was at least one source of original flavor human when it was still a relatively minor species in the galaxy.
The other in-galaxy option is Coruscant but honestly that’s kind of boring. It’s also quite far from Tattoine so it’d be weird if Tattoine was just some random human colony.
And the technically movie-canon answer is Earth and humans are an exo-galactic invasive species but that’s not as fun.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Maybe your body is digested over a thousand years because the Sarlaac doesn’t catch very much prey so it has evolved a hyper-efficient digestive system and sits dormant most of the time, but also once you’re in Luke’s right and you’ll actually die of crushing or acid burning or dehydration.
But they also call it “The Almighty Sarlaac”, which to me implies that this is all folk knowledge. So maybe “be digested over a thousand years” is just what Tatooinians believe will happen to anyone who falls in.
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yeah, I can imagine the locals would tell the younglings “don’t play near the Sarlaac Pit! It’ll eat you for a thousand years!”
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Choogana goona, youwanna wonga. Ah ha ha ha!
Hupf@feddit.org 8 months ago
You damn sure Iwanna wonga.
averyminya@beehaw.org 8 months ago
It’s symbiotic guys, the sarlaac obviously gives you nutrients to keep you alive as it extracts nutrients it needs.
Like carbon dioxide and oxygen from plants.
revlayle@lemm.ee 8 months ago
God, Jabba, you stupid fuck. Don’t you know anything? I mean, fuck!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The sarlaac keeps you alive, duh
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Luke seems clueless about how information is conveyed in conversation
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
C3PO is translating for him
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah, he’s just giving Jabba the silent treatment.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That makes as much sense as The Matrix using people for energy. You can’t feed people to keep them alive and get more energy out than just digesting (or in the Matrix burning) that food for energy.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 8 months ago
I could be wrong, but I think the original idea for the matrix was that they were using human brains for processing power and not energy. But someone in the movie making process decided people wouldn’t understand that and instead went with the battery analogy.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe you get “digested” in the sense that you get incorporated into the sarlacc’s body, like it’s using you in a parasitic sense. It makes you one of its internal organs, and it slowly uses you up over the course of a thousand years (assuming we take that phrase literally). I think acting as a gall bladder for an underground sand monster sounds like a fate worse than death.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
It could be that their prey’s bodies are used for chemical reactions that their own body is incapable of.
Rolder@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Could be it’s using you for nutrients it can’t get normally, so it keeps you alive to milk you for your calcium or whatever for as long as it can.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You also can’t choke people with your mind so idk what your point is
GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I thought it also used them for neural CPU cycles but maybe I’m misremembering
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The sarlaac isn’t eating your body; it’s eating your mind.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The original script for the Matrix had the machines use human brains for data processing, but the Wachowskis were told by the studio to simplify it.
Rubisco@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Sarlac that lost the ability to grow ‘roots’ and instead worked out venom and energy storage (fat and muscle) would outcompete and supplant the sarlacs still producing energetically-expensive, overly-complicated stasis bellies.
What happens if they momentarily fail to keep their meals alive, do they starve or become poisoned by the rotting meat? Do they have issues keeping a varied diet alive? How do they maintain a net positive energy balance after producing all that is required to keep organisms alive? Why not stun them and stash them, like wasps and spiders? Why not fatten up like -gestures broadly at all life-. Fat requires very little maintenance.
Could one, in theory, rescue one’s friends were they trapped in a sarlac?
Sounds like an organism that would quickly be out of business were there any competition at all.
metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 8 months ago
As long as we’re coming up with overly convoluted reasons that a minor plot device from a fantasy space opera makes sense in a rigorous scientific way, why not assume that they were genetically engineered specifically as a torturous punishment for the Hutt syndicate? Bioengineering is apparently canon, so there’s in-universe justification.
lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What? starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sarlacc