If R2D2 Could Hack Into The Death Star's Computer Network, Then

[Yavin4]

why didn't he set it for self-destruct?

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Fanboys around the world fall silent.

[Joe the Liberal]

2. Maybe because the Death Star doesn't have a self-destruct sequence.....

or I don't think it does anyway, what would be purpose of putting a self-destruct sequence on the Death Star?

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. In case Ewoks got on board?

[Joe the Liberal]

6. LOL destroy the entire Death Star just because of an Ewok infestation?.....

sounds a little extreme, don't ya think?

I think a few baited traps would be a better solution. :rofl:

[quakerboy]

8. Tribbles.

or boy bands. nuff said?

[Fire Walk With Me]

24. "Scorched Earth" is the best policy when dealing with Ewoks.

[Deja Q]

4. The same reason we all have self-destruct buttons(tm) in our automobiles...

:crazy:

Actually, despite otherwise being quite vapid, "Star Wars" never bothered to do the trite trope of incorporating "the old self-destruct button trick"... :D

[quakerboy]

9. how hard could it be to set the engines to overload?

or to fire torpedos down its own exhaust port. Or to misalign the big planet destroying ray so that it starts causing problems?

[PVnRT]

18. To scuttle the station in case it is overrun

Of course, you could argue that the Empire was arrogant and never thought that would happen. In that case, R2D2 could still have easily bypassed safety controls on the fusion reactors and made big boom happen.

[pokerfan]

5. Who knew R2R2 could fly?

:shrug:

Apparently his abilities had deteriorated by the time of the events in "A New Hope" and were limited to reading the DS's police blotter tweets and fiddling with its waste management systems.

Episode III R2D2 could have done it easy.

[Joe the Liberal]

7. The Jawas must have stolen some important parts off of him is my guess......

You know how they are, trying to rip people off with their lackluster clunker droids. They probably took his booster rockets off of him plus a few other things and then sold him at full price, the bastards!

[DarkTirade]

10. Because the security is probably a bit more lax on the garbage compactor

than on the self-destruct.

[realisticphish]

16. +1

[Cush]

11. Spaceball-1 / Megamaid had one, and look what happened

....they ended up on the Planet of the Apes

[Bucky]

12. That would have been murder.

It's the difference between shooting an opposing officer and gentleman in honorable combat and stabbing him in the back in an alleyway while he's busy duct taping a waterfowl up against a brick wall. Cad though he be, there are certain things a gentleman does not do.

[Orrex]

13. People hack into webpages all the time, but do they set the corresponding servers to explode?

[NewJeffCT]

14. The internal doors were not connected to the vital systems

so, he couldn't tell the ship to go to sleep or anything like that.

[Avalux]

15. The self-destruct program was password protected.

The garbage compactor doors were not. ;-)

[Yavin4]

17. Wait A Minute, Some of You Are Saying That The Self Destruct Network Security Was Tighter?

These are the same designers that left a small exhaust port that lead to the main reactor. A proton torpedo could travel down the port, reach the main reactor, and destroy the station.

This tells me that the designers were not too sharp about security. You cannot tell me that R2D2 could not have figured out another method for destroying the death star like setting off a virus, which is how Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum saved the world in Independence Day.

[hobbit709]

19. It wasn't in the script.

[northzax]

20. this is why...

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920944

[MilesColtrane]

21. Asimov's Laws?

:shrug:

[krispos42]

22. It requires pressing a manual control to initiate

I hear it's somewhere in the central brain area.

[eyepaddle]

23. Okay, I'll put on my "Gerge Lucas--create bogus post hoc justification hat"

R2D2 ould only hack into the low security systmes--waste management, general comms, stuff like that. The Empire had tighter security on the critical systems like propulsion, armament and life support.

Editor's note: I don't believe that tripe I just rolled out any more than you do--or that Han Solo was talking about how efficient a navigator he was when he trotted out the "parsecs" bit.

IOW: GET OFF MY LAWN! ;)

[Taverner]

25. They probably never made a program for that

Seriously though, its as if George Lucas understood the importance computers would play in the future - but not security!

[dembotoz]

26. to sell tickets --robots are the main hero, humans are

[baldguy]

27. R2D2 was the secret leader of the rebellion.

And it didn't fit into his plans.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/22/r2d2_secret_leader_o.html