Ah, the pre-501st days of Star Wars costuming. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, fans with a bent for donning the duds of their favorite Star Wars denizen often scrounged the local Army surplus and thrift stores to cobble together a complete costume. This guy, captured in a ’70s-era photo we recently found on eBay, gets our vote for coolest Star Wars costume to incorporate an electrical appliance — yep, that’s a ’70s-era 10-key calculator strapped around his chest, along with some strangely metallic shinguards and one “massive jock” (in the words of Lucas Online’s Craig Drake) codpiece.
Dark Lord of the galaxy? Not so much. But if you need to figure out how long it will take a TIE fighter and asteroid travelling toward eachother at 565 and 2,655 miles per hour respectively from a starting distance of 26,254 miles to collide, this Sith’s your man.
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But which button calls his mom to come pick him up? Oh, wait…this guy’s, like, 50 years old by now. His mom probably calls _him_ for a ride by now. Cool find. Let us not forget our roots!
… or our square roots. HEY-O!!!!
he’s the dark lord of calculus!!!
all high school students must fear his wrath!!!
I am good at the maths bit!
… but bad at tering
Whenever you hit the = button, you get “1138″!