honestly the Star Wars saga is just the story of three generations of people bullying c3po
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Replying to @petridishes
My question is why everyone has solid colored clothing. Does plaid not exist outside our galaxy? A nice gingham? And why all the earth tones. Are there no pastels in outer space?
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Replying to @JRubinBlogger
this has never occurred to me before in more than two decades of viewing in the prequels there is some ombre i think rebel troops wear camo in Return of the Jedi other than that, you're right!
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Replying to @petridishes @JRubinBlogger
Star Wars takes place a long time ago, they probably just couldn’t distinguish colors yet:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2976405/Could-ancestors-blue-Ancient-civilisations-didn-t-perceive-colour-didn-t-word-say-scientists.html …
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Replying to @ScottGreenMagic @ScottDoesMagic and
This (interesting) fact is matter of language, not sight. They could see blue, it just fell under the umbrella of a term for color that was much more narrow than it is in modern languages. Plus blue pigment/dye was historically very rare and expensive, which contributed somewhat
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Replying to @van_suede @VanceWade and
@nntaleb had this conversation. Indo-European language couldn't make a distinction between blue and green.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
What's interesting given the above is that babies in the present learn blue first: "the data suggests that green may be learned significantly after the other three, with blue generally the first colour term learned." https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2017/papers/0078/paper0078.pdf …
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