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This is not the planet you're looking for.

This is not the planet we're looking for.

Move along.

Move along.

Don't let George Lucas see this. He'll want to change the next release of episode 4 and have Luke looking over 3 suns setting.

"Really, I had always wanted it to be 3 suns, and now we have the technology to produce my original vision"

I guess the galaxy isn't so far away after all

More like Mike, Robbie, and Chip :P

THE SPICE!!!???

Like Tatooine?

No love for Pitch Black [imdb.com]?

Besides, Vin Diesel can kick Chewbacca's ass. He can do anything [4q.cc].

You're thinking of Arrakis, you incompetent twit.

....that's a Death Star in orbit.

You clearly have never been around Uncle Owen when he's eating baked beans, have you?

As depressing as it is, I remember reading the Empire Strikes Back Trivia Guide, and the suns were Tatoo I and Tatoo II.

I could have sworn that the third one was called Hervé.

Look, Boss! The speeder, the speeder!

...a solar system with... three suns!

Dude, I've trouble getting to the bathroom which at this moment seems far, far away.

I'd say a 149 kajillion light years is definitely far, far away.

Not only that; it doesn't even have a single tattoo on it!

In the original script for Star Wars all the Jawas wore 3 piece white suits and were led by Kahn.

You gather a collection of signs saying "Please do not drink the emperor"

Tatooine doesnt exist, does this?

I'm just waiting for the first DS9 like wormhole to the delta quadrant to be discovered. Hell I'd settle for the most nasal starship captain that doesn't have a clue.

* If there's a bright side to the universe, it is the planet its farthest from.

* You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

* The womp rats are about 2 meters in length.

* The sand is coarse and rough and irritating, and gets everywhere.

Two suns, three suns, that's not really relevant to the plot or character development.

My concern is that in the next release Alderaan is going to shoot first.

-Peter

"If the planet's environment is life-friendly, then it's only a matter of time before life evolves on it."

And you base this one what? An empirical basis of exactly 1 instance? Pretty presumptious of you.

Not really. Since life evolved once, the probability of life evolving is greater than zero. Ergo, given arbitrarily sufficient time, the probability of life having evolved will approach 100%. Unfortunately, time required for life to evolve may exceed the lifespan of even the universe. The grandparent post is technically correct, but it's not a particularly useful form of correct.

* You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Personally, I think it's a shame that people have to slander everyone from Tatooine just because they've gotten a bad impression from the people in Mos Eisley.

You ever notice how, even in Star Trek, people have to WARP to every place they want to go? This implies that space is like the United States. Between where you are and where you want to be there's alot of nothing. I.e. a drive from New York to LA gets you about 3 major cities and an assload of desolate countryside.

So to summarize, there are habitable planets out there, but none of them are close to us or close to each other.