Posted on 06/23/2010 1:17:10 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
I think the USS Excelsior was a transwarp ship. But Scotty thought it was a piece of junk.
Geddoutta here, I used to EAT Sport Fury’s for breakfast!!
My rig had 3 twins, 4:11 gears and a Hurst shifter. Used to avg about 6 mpg, but gasoline was about 30 cents a gallon so who cared.
But I’m a tellin’ ya, she was a real screamer!!
“Millennium Falcon”
She made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
Piano sized? Would that be an upright, baby grand, or grand piano? Idiots.
While the Heart of Gold was a sweet ship, Infinite Improbability Drives are kind of wanky. The Bistromath seemed like a more elegant way to travel.
That line has always bothered me. A parsec is a unit of distance. Then again, they never really explained exactly what a "kessel run" was.
Kessel in german is a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid or a very large pot that is used for boiling. My conclusion is that it had something to do with pot smuggling. :)
Kessel was also referred to by C3PO -
being forced to work in the spice mines of Kessel.
I think my ‘69 Charger RT would have enjoyed meeting your Goat. 440, 2 Holley double pumpers, high-rise manifold, dual point ignition, and other goodies It would be fun regardless!
I lived in Northern NJ and always had a shotgun rider with me. If the car we were racing looked as if it was pulling ahead, my guy would shoot out a tire.
We never lost. ‘course it did get a bit tough to find soemone to play with after a bit....
Now that doesn’t sound like fun! I would hate to lose a tire-they were expensive!
In NJ we never paid for our tires, someone else did.
“Im gonna go with the Delta Flyer which attained warp 10...also known as infinite speed...yeah, thats it... “
Nope it was the Shuttlepod Cochrane that hit warp 10 then people turned into lizards and the fans groaned loud enough to be he4ard from the Delta Quadrant...
I am such a geek.
“That would be the starship Heart of Gold, the first space craft to contain the Infinite Improbability Drive.
While the Heart of Gold was a sweet ship, Infinite Improbability Drives are kind of wanky. The Bistromath seemed like a more elegant way to travel. “
Yeah, though I prefer a TARDIS.....
That's the first explanation I've seen that actually makes sense. Thanks!
That is the size of New Horizons.The spacecraft is comparable in size and general shape to a grand piano and has been compared to a “piano glued to a sports-car-sized satellite dish
http://triton.towson.edu/~schmitt/gl/index.php?topic=f07report2
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