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The Rock Group named their band AC/DC when the guitarist saw that on the back of his mom's old sewing machine and though....hey thats a great name for a band.
Bit of trivia i can remember going to a hardware and my dad to buy spoons/forks and strange kitchen implements that he then spot welded on to the arms of some spidery looking robot
when luke buys r2 that robot was in the line up ......happy days
Droids don't have a gender.
(I'm kidding, of course)
C3PO was named after a post office which is located at reference C3 on a map of Lucas' hometown.
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question48321.html
Interesting, if true.
Nothing to do with the fact that Angus Young is gay then?
Whoa!
see wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android
Well, actually, R2D2 is a ball-bearing robot...
We might have known it, but he didn't know it and thought it cool to post to others who didn't know it. Give the guy a break.
Peace
I'm a huge Star Wars buff but never knew this - who cares if it's 20 years old? It's still cool as hell... it's STAR WARS.
"Wait! What! Darth Vader was Lukes FATHER! Whoa!"
Jesus Christ, use some f'ing spoiler tags next time. Way to ruin the ending for me.
Oh! after the fold.
Right.
Jump is a link, people...
R2D2 is no "Droid", C3PO on the other hand is.
Droid is abbreviated form of Android, from the greek "Human-like-form" (i.e. 2 arms, 2 legs, torso, head)
so there...
I don't know this to be true, but that's what I heard.
Funny, I just had the same reflexion. A kind of vacuum-transformer...
Star Wars is just awesome!
Simpsons Reference2 : This sounds so much like Comic Book Guy it's unreal...
"Andras Says:
Wow - that’s real breaking news. Especially if you ignore that it was in “Skywalkingâ€Â, the unofficial George Lucas biography about 20 years ago."
http://www.c2i.ntu.edu.sg/AI+CI/Humor/AI_Jokes/...
It describes the real source of the name.
Once upon a time there was a robot, named R1 by its creators. Its only task was to fend for itself. One day its designers arranged for it to learn that its spare battery, its precious energy supply, was locked in a room with a time bomb set to go off soon. R1 located the room, and the key to the door, and formulated a plan to rescue its battery. There was a wagon in the room, and the battery was on the wagon, and R1 hypothesized that a certain action which it called PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) would result in the battery being removed from the room. Straightaway it acted, and did succeed in getting the battery out of the room before the bomb went off. Unfortunately, however, the bomb was also on the wagon. R1 knew that the bomb was on the wagon in the room, but didn't realize that pulling the wagon would bring the bomb out along with the battery. Poor R1 had missed that obvious implication of its planned act.
Back to the drawing board. "The solution is obvious," said the designers. "Our next robot must be made to recognize not just the intended implications of its acts, but also the implications about their side-effects, by deducing these implications from the descriptions it uses in formulating its plans." They called their next model, the robot-deducer, R1D1. They placed R1D1 in much the same predicament that R1 had succumbed to, and as it too hit upon the idea of PULLOUT(WAGON, ROOM) it began, as designed, to consider the implications of such a course of action. It had just finished deducing that pulling the wagon out of the room would not change the colour of the room's walls, and was embarking on a proof of the further implication that pulling the wagon out would cause its wheels to turn more revolutions than there were wheels on the wagon ... when the bomb exploded.
Back to the drawing board. "We must teach it the difference between relevant implications and irrelevant implications," said the designers, "and teach it to ignore the irrelevant ones." So they developed a method of tagging implications as either relevant or irrelevant to the project at hand, and installed the method in their next model, the robot-relevant-deducer, R2D1 for short. When they subjected R2D1 to the test that had so unequivocally selected its ancestors for extinction, they were surprised to see it sitting, Hamlet-like, outside the room containing the ticking bomb, the native hue of its resolution sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, as Shakespeare (and more recently Fodor) has aptly put it. "Do something!" they yelled at it. "I am," it retorted. "I'm busily ignoring some thousands of implications I have determined to be irrelevant. Just as soon as I find an irrelevant implication, I put it on the list of those I must ignore, and ..." the bomb went off.
here is a reference which I found:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/usercomments
How did George Lucas get HIS name?
If Dykstra's talent was instrumental in making Star Wars a monumental success, shouldn't the original "Galactica" be just as massive?
*Think*
Example:
Luke: "He claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. "
C3-PO: "It wasn't my fault, sir, please don't deactivate me. I told him not to go, but he's faulty, malfunctioning. Kept babbling on about his mission. "
re...
C3PO was named after a post office which is located at reference C3 on a map of Lucas' hometown.
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question48321.html
http://www.ozturyapevdenevenakliyat.com
Interesting, if true.