• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They also have starships, so many droids they are considered junk, and fully working replacement limbs. I have to assume they can fix bad skin. I guess it’s like Patrick Stewart/Picard’s “in the future nobody cares if you’re bald”.

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      11 months ago

      star wars isn’t a utopian society, though. lukes family can’t afford or won’t spend the money on a droid that could do all the work for them. or the might be supply issues on tatooine - they buy c3po and r2 off jawas, after all.

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        11 months ago

        In The Phantom Menace they didn’t even use Republic standard currency on Tatooine. I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that they don’t have access to all the most advanced technology in the galaxy.

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      11 months ago

      None of those technologies have anything to do with skin. Well, ok, the replacement limbs do, and showed that they can produce artificial skin that even includes the sensation of touch. But what moisture farmers have time to book an appointment on a medical ship when it happens to be in the area (or a quick light jump away)? Oh right, abundance of droids that could be doing whatever labour is involved on a moisture farm (carry the daily bottle of water to the fridge? What is their output even like?).

      The next star wars should be about a trade deal between Tatooine and some ocean planet to exchange some water for some sand and moisture farmers hiring some force using mercenaries (let’s explore one of the other cults of the force instead of just the Sith and Jedi again). It would be interesting if the whole thing was written to make everyone morally ambiguous, like a lot of chaotic goods, true neutrals, and lawful bads so that at the end of it, there’s a debate about whether the outcome was a good one. That’s a lot better than debate about what the dumbest parts were.

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        11 months ago

        The next star wars should be about a trade deal between Tatooine and some ocean planet to exchange some water for some sand and moisture farmers hiring some force using mercenaries (let’s explore one of the other cults of the force instead of just the Sith and Jedi again).

        I want Nip/Tuck Tatooine.

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      11 months ago

      IDK, maybe not. It’s easy to think of space travel and robotics as more complex than medicine, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we have mass produced droids before we’ve totally cured skin aging. Maybe not interstellar travel, but you never know

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      11 months ago

      I guess it’s like Patrick Stewart/Picard’s “in the future nobody cares if you’re bald”.

      Then why do all the ladies love Riker and his glorious hair?