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DannyJC13
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This is my theory, and I hope it is right, otherwise the scene where they fly to Neptune in BBS completely destroys this part of WNFHGB:
The ship didn't have it's Dark Matter engines. It had the ones from the Star Trek ship.
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TheMadCapper
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The PE ship had the antiquated engines on it. Who's to say they were really that compatible with the PE ship? And if the "Trek" ship was built to Star Trek Enterprise standards, I believe the "Trek" ship shouldn't have been engineered to work in atmosphere or on a planet surface at all.
And Scrappy has the other piece of the puzzle: it suits the story better to have the Trek cast back to being heads in jars, so we get a handwave saying they need to ditch their bodies.
Case closed, far as I can see.
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Inquisitor Hein
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My theory: The planet express ship can hold exactly as much cargo as the plot demands I was reminded of "Bird-Bod" which run lately on TV (one of the few occasions I did watch a German dubbed Futurama episode): I doubt Fry is really able to lift 500 pounds easily with one hand. But when the plot demanded him to catch Bender and lift him on board at the end, he could suddenly do so.
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futurefreak
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Or in this case, a (presumably greasy) nerd cloudlike organism.
That was an interesting point Beanoz. One of the heaviest things they carried has to be that block from A Pharaoh to Remember.
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futurefreak
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Well there was that nice truck sequence in Parasites Lost... If they can "fly" around permits, one thing's for sure - they must abide by a mandatory fishing license.
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TheMadCapper
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Or in this case, a (presumably greasy) nerd cloudlike organism.
That was an interesting point Beanoz. One of the heaviest things they carried has to be that block from A Pharaoh to Remember.
I don't think it's crazy to hand-wave this a little bit and say that the Egypt-planet may have had lighter gravity or the stones may have been lighter in weight. Those slaves were accomplishing some unrealistic feats of strength in this episode.
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futurefreak
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I'd just like to know how they got that cube in the building. Maybe you're right, maybe they were just cubes of sugar Also the late night basic channel reruns cut out Fry's reference to Sisyphus booo
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Tachyon
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<Wikipedia> In Greek mythology Sisyphus (Greek: Σίσυφος, Sísyphos) was a king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
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Inquisitor Hein
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Killing people who were under the domain of other gods and taking pleasure in those killings, being crafty and devious in general, trapping the god of death in the Underworld, etc.
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He sounds nice...
Or...in other words: "He had a real good time" (Shameless "The Mummy" quote... )
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