Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy 94
Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a production crew from Little Mountain Productions, a 9-year-old is getting the best fort ever. The crew is making him a Star Wars-themed fort with a gigantic Millennium Falcon with solar-powered LED interior and exterior lighting to sit on top. No word on how fast it can make the Kessel run, but lets hope the kid gets a long trip.
They are the Best! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Parsecs (Score:5, Insightful)
Corrected? The movie says what it says, there's no "correcting" to be done. Han's bragging line is what people call "techno-babble". Neither of the sequels make any explanation of this bit of techno-babble, nor do they need to, any more than someone would need to explain what a "hydrospanner" is.
Techno-babble permits inane crap to help move the story from one plot point to the next. When done well, it works like this [imdb.com]:
Brandon's Mom: Where are you going with those fireworks?
Brandon: Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.
Re:Overheard in the background... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Good to be thinking of feelings, but (Score:1, Insightful)
It'd be better to instead funnel that money to funds for research on diseases that tend to strike people down. Between spending money on a party for someone who's probably going to die and spending that same money on research towards treatments that stop families and communities from losing those people, the latter is a much better use of funds.
Hey son you will be happy to know despite you dying in 2 weeks that someone has contributed $5k to research a cure for your disease.
Or
Hey son you will be happy to know despite you dying in 2 weeks that someone has contributed a weeks worth of time to make you a kick ass fort.
Re:Good to be thinking of feelings, but (Score:3, Insightful)
even if you pull all the money spent on stuff like this across the entire world it probably amounts to less than 0.01% of all the money spent on researching disease cures. It'd be a drop in the bucket. Or we can spend that drop making a dying kid's wish come true.
what's the point of living a long life if you can't bring happiness to someone else?