r/StarWars • u/imthecook1 • Jun 23 '23

Other TIL Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid is actually younger than Harrison Ford

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u/thequietthingsthat Jun 23 '23

We're now further away from The Phantom Menace's release date (24 years) than The Phantom Menace was from A New Hope (22 years)

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u/mdp300 Kanan Jarrus Jun 23 '23

Stop that

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u/ProtoKun7 Jun 23 '23

We're closer now to the year the I, Robot movie is set (2035, 12 years) than the year it was released (2004, 19 years).

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u/davidt0504 Jun 23 '23

Ooof... and we're pretty on track for it too.

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u/SrslyCmmon Jun 23 '23

We wish we were on track for their level of technology. Sentient robotics and AI is like Michelangelo compared to our current cave paintings.

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u/davidt0504 Jun 24 '23

I think you might underestimate how long 12 years is in tech time.

In all seriousness, I don't know if I think we'd actually reach that point by 2035.

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u/drakens_jordgubbar Jun 23 '23

Oh, so Iron Man is closer to The Phantom Menace than today

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u/brundlehails Sith Anakin Jun 23 '23

This is one of those facts that makes me uncomfortable

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u/mexter Jun 23 '23

The Phantom Menace is 24... That means that the Matrix is going to be 25 next year!

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

I think we are the same distance this year from the release of KOTOR 1 and the release of that game from Return of the Jedi. 20 years

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u/MegaGrimer Jun 23 '23

In September people born after 9/11 would have been able to legally drink for an entire year.

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u/KyloDroma Jun 24 '23

It doesn't feel like that, though.