I remember when my dad would occasionally dig his old Laserdisc player out of storage so we could watch the original Star Wars trilogy digitally. He wouldn’t bother with it often, but until Lucasfilm finally released the movies on DVD in 2004, it was the best picture we could get at home.
Category: Star Wars
Star Wars star gets a little excited about namesake gibbon – CNET
Newly discovered primate earns “Skywalker” name for the way it soars through trees — and because the scientists were Star Wars fans. So, scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of primate living in southwest China, and being Star Wars fans, they’ve named it the Skywalker hoolock gibbon .
Last Week on Channel 9: December 19th-December 24th, 2016
Even though the Channel 9 Studios are closed for the Holidays, our content authors, producers and all around awesome show hosts continued to roll out the posts, giving us all something to watch while off from worka If Star Wars: A New Hope is a parable of incident management, as Kellman Meghu demonstrated, then Star Wars: Rogue One is a lesson in a security breach. Here’s what the Empire missed.
NASA plans to search for ‘Star Wars’ planets
Some of the planets discovered around stars in our own galaxy may be very similar to the ‘Star Wars’ exoplanets like arid Tatooine, watery Scarif and even frozen Hoth, according to NASA scientists. Sifting through data on the more than 3,400 confirmed alien worlds, scientists applied sophisticated computer modelling techniques to tease out the colours, light, sunrise and sunsets we might encounter if we could pay them a visit.