Exactly! It's the same reason why the entire friggin' fleet is after the Falcon rather than....jeez, I don't know....chasing down the rest of the rebels: Vader could foresee that capturing Han and Leia would lure Luke to him. That is always what Vader wanted; for all he cared, the rebellion itself could have stayed at…

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Also, the team was never on the market; the moment Schultz decided to sell the team, David Stern orchestrated the sale to his BFF Clay Bennett without any chance for a local owner to get involved. The romance bloomed when Bennett was a minority owner of the Spurs, and would have bought the team and moved them to OKC if …

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Another possible factor in human's continued technology-affect evolution: alien assistance. In the Star Trek universe, if Zefram Cochrane didn't get the Vulcan's attention with his warp ship — and is humanity building a warp-like engine in the next 100 years terribly implausible? — then perhaps the Star Trek universe…

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Yes, this is old news; Groening has said (around when the Simpsons movie came out) that his hometown of Portland has influenced the way he designed Springfield. Matt is now just saying that the name "Springfield" came from the one in Oregon, as well as it being a common name for many cities across the country.

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