Posted on 07/28/2023 10:57:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
But can it do the Kessel Run in less than 12 Parsecs?
There’s a high school near Orefield PA shaped like the Millennium Falcon.
A parsec is 3.26 light years.
Isn’t that a distance, not a time?
It’s bothered me for years…
It's actually the USS Reliant.
Aliens cause mass shooters?…
Excellent question
Rate of acceleration?
Well, a couple thousand parsecs at least
Omen III
(been awhile)
Not biblical but a few interesting scenes
PG at a minimum though
Put the shrooms back in the drawer and step away slowly
That’s not the Millennium Falcon, it’s Pac Man.
When confronted with that George said it was a short cut, and in the Solo movie they completed the ret-con by having the nav computer find a short cut.
But, yeah, George screwed up.
The Star Wars universe fixed that ages ago, dontcha know.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2018/05/30/solo-star-wars-story-kessel-run-12-parsecs/?sh=2d72a6c37856So Solo took a shortcut on the Kessel run, which is why he did it in less than 12 Parsecs, when everybody else did it in 18-20 Parsecs.According to Star Wars: The Essential Atlas and the Solo novels, the road to Kessel involved navigating a cluster of black holes known as 'the Maw'. This would typically take 18 parsecs -- to avoid falling into the Maw's gravity wells -- but with a sturdy ship like the Millennium Falcon and a daring captain like Han, a smuggler could skirt close to the edges of the Maw and cut the distance down to 12 parsecs.
At least this is the elaborate explanation they came up with years later to cover George Lucas' original script blunder...
In my Astronomy class, I caused a 20 minute nerd argument about it.
Even got the Professor in on it.
It’s like seeing the shape of objects in the clouds.
I declare shenanigans!…
I think that makes it all worth it.
It’s actually a good lesson for sci-fi writers. Don’t use words you don’t know just cause they sound high tech.
“Isn’t that a distance, not a time?”
If you had been around during the time of Einstein you could have grilled him on his introduction of the concept of time as the fourth dimension, which meant that space and time were inextricably linked. And there are some facts that support it. So you might consider the two the same or opposite each other. And there’s a third player. The fabric of space can be altered, and if space and time are linked, then time can be stretched and contracted by gravity. People get paid a lot of money to come up with this stuff.
wy69
Pragmatically speaking, that’s mental masturbation.
It’s interesting, but not real. At least in our current capacity.
It doesn’t bother me at all that others enjoy it though.
It does mean the society is doing well when that’s a man’s job and concern.
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