Minnesota Death Star

This video made me gleefully happy, and simultaneously reminded me that I need to go shovel.

In retrospect, I can't believe that I never thought of this imagery. For some reason, my brain always goes to reciting "Charge of the Light Brigade" when I'm down in the trenches.

Many thanks to AynW for Submitterating!

Maggie Koerth-Baker is the science editor at BoingBoing.net. She writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine and is the author of Before the Lights Go Out, a book about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy. You can find Maggie on Twitter and Facebook.

Maggie goes places and talks to people. Find out where she'll be speaking next.

MORE: Entertainment • Funny • pop culture

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

ponto

While digging out after last February’s blizzards, My cat Natasha and I used a snow trench to reenact the 1914 Christmas Truce.
- Anonymous
  
  And of course the trench needs a fire-step too.. Just kidding, glorious photo.
karthikophobia

Brilliant!
Bender

Tremendous.
cservant

Thanks, this just made my day.
alllie

Lovely. And joyful.
bklynchris

OK, the only thing cooler than the TIE fighter was the how tall the grass was peaking out from under the snow indicating that in Minnesota the end of the growing season was when the first snow fell…like on Labor Day.
Quiche de Resistance

Stay on target!
- Donald Petersen
  
  Negative. It didn’t go in. Just impacted on the surface!
Chairboy

This is a proper use of snow. I would also like to see some Hoth (more like Coldth, amirite?) clips.

Internet, please activate Chairboy Wish-Fulfillment mode.
spejic

You’re all clear kid. Now you can walk to the car.

The joy of this comes from the surprising transition from reality to the semi-fantastic realm you enter when you play. You stop seeing the hand that holds the airplane and the table becomes a runway, and yet they don’t really disappear.
Nougat

Walking down the streets of St. Paul these days reminds me of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Anonymous

Glorious, although rather than the Light Brigade, my thoughts tend to go to Sigfried Sasoon–
“..In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
with crumps, and lice, and lack of rum…”
mdh

Awesome! could only be improved by the addition of some kids throwing snowballs
- muteboy
  
  “We count one Rebel ship, Lord Vader, but it’s so small it’s evading our turbosnowballs.”
Anonymous

Love It!!..i think that house is close by..anyway now that most everyone has snow blowers the walks are cleared in nice neat trenches and not by the sloppy hand shoveling method.
- simonbarsinister
  
  > most everyone has snow blowers the walks are cleared in nice neat trenches and not by the sloppy hand shoveling method.
  
  I’ll have you know my hand shoveled walk has 90 degree angles an architect would be proud of.
  - Maggie Koerth-Baker
    
    My hand-shoveled walk does not. But it’s still wide and clear.
cinemajay

Awesome! And I love seeing my home state in the headline–seems like there’s been a lot of MN references lately. Maybe it’s time for a Minnesotan Boingers Jamboree?
- Maggie Koerth-Baker
  
  Seems like there’s been a lot of MN references lately
  
  It’s all part of my propaganda campaign to make Minneapolis as cool as San Francisco.
  - sparklemotion
    
    Silly Maggie,
    
    Everyone knows Minneapolis is much cooler than San Francisco.
    
    Especially this time of year.
  - cinemajay
    
    It’s working!
benher

Thanks Maggie! I always enjoy your posts though they always make me a bit homesick!
Mister44

Mon Month likes this!

Grand Moff Tarkin does not.