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Female pilots edited out of the Star Wars movies.

I saw the tweets about this today, and I was like oh yeah, I remember hearing about that.

And then I saw the pictures and just— wow. What it would have meant to have these women in the movie, all this time. I can’t properly articulate it but it’s hitting me unexpectedly hard.

Wow thats a shame, even a nice old lady too.  These Space Valkyries  should have been left in.

They really should have.

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WHAT.

THE.

FUCK.

I lived, ate, and breathed Star Wars from age 2 until 2005 when RotS finally beat the enthusiasm out of me, and I have NEVER, EVER in all my reading on behind-the-scenes and makings-of heard of these shots. It’s a shame there was no relaunched edit of the original trilogy they could have slipped these in OH FUCKING WAIT THERE’S BEEN LIKE 3 OF THOSE NOW.

Fuck. FUCK. Whoever decided to edit out and bury these needs to french kiss an angle grinder.

I want to see the old lady in the A-Wing. Seriously, it’s like, she’s somebody’s grandma. Some kid in the Outer Rim Territories got greased by the Empire for seeing something she wasn’t supposed to see, and her grandma, the bush pilot, decided “Fuck this, I’m gonna strap on an fighter and make the Empire fucking PAY for the moment it decided to fuck with MY FAMILY.”

DON’T. MESS. WITH. GRANDMA.

These are quickly being put into the “always reblog” category.

Whenever there is a war, there are women who are warriors. Then they get erased from history. Happens in real wars and fictional ones alike.

Less than 5% of general aviation licenses go to women.  If these had been left in, you can bet that number would be higher.

^^^That knocked the breath out of me.

I just can’t believe they not only took them out, but refused to put them back in during the seventeen times they updated the movies. And of course the only possible explanation for this is: you do not belong here.

Source: superpunch2

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NASA Celebrates The Hubble Telescope’s 25th Birthday With Gorgeous Photos Of Space Fireworks

Happy birthday, Hubble!
The celebrated space telescope turns 25 on Friday. To mark the anniversary, NASA set the instrument loose to gaze at some fireworks – that is, space fireworks. Hubble captured the spectacular photos of stars being born in “Westerlund 2,” a cluster of 3,000 stars that is in Gum 29, which NASA describes as a “raucous stellar breeding ground” in the constellation Carina.

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The Sting: Camera, Character and a Great Screenplay

My all time favorite movie.  When I was a preteen I watched it every time a major network reran it.  Once I made my family suffer through me taping the audio on a cassette recorder.  I played that tape for years, over and over again until I wore it out.  

To this day, I have always had some recorded version of it, from VHS, to DVD, to stored on my iPad.  I play it when I want something fun and clever to watch. 

Henry Gondorff, from “Nice to meet you kid.  You’re a real horse’s ass” to, by the end, the only person not to have been conned.

Leverage has all kinds of little shout outs to The Sting.  Here’s just one of them:

The Sting’s Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) plays the hook against their mark, humiliates him in one big play to draw him in to the bigger con.  He annoys the mark, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw), enough that he sets Henry up to take a fall with a hand of four 3’s, but Henry came prepared with a few extra Jacks stashed on him somewhere.  

In Leverage, with a little help from the rest of the crew, Nate hooks their mark with a similar move, four 9′s beat by 4 Jacks.

Source: thescriptlab